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VC fund partnering with Israeli companies ready to go from #startup to #scaleup success.

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.@Apple is acquiring https://t.co/Hlsq5LB3fx in the second-to-largest acquisition they've ever made.
Can't say what Q does yet, but we promise it's mind-blowing. Couldn't be prouder Yonatan Wexler, Aviad Maizels & @ABarliya
Full story of investment-->acquisition from @eden👇

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@saarsafra How @saarsafra is saving the bees one tin box at a time – full episode of Invested: https://t.co/LpnGICQoQi

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Ironically, it's the beehive that's killing the bees. A wooden box that's barely changed in over a century, that needs a human to physically drive out and open it before anyone can help. @saarsafra rebuilt it as a solar-powered, AI-run tin box that acts in milliseconds. Thousands are already in the field.

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@orenzeev Watch @OrenZeev on Invested: https://t.co/KoL6VTmz11

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According to @OrenZeev, $3B solo VC, it's better to make a bad investment than miss a good one. Get out your pen and paper for this full episode of Invested.

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@jawwwn_ @PalmerLuckey Declining birth rate is a major problem that does not get enough attention.

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@YuvalAriav Full episode of @yuvalariav on Invested: https://t.co/SUb6bLAoi8

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Doesn't matter if he has 10 weeks or 12 hours to make a call on a red-hot deal, nobody puts @YuvalAriav in a corner.

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@YuvalAriav @mikeeisenberg Hard-hitting journalism at its finest.

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@mikeeisenberg @NextSilicon @nvidia @YuvalAriav Good thing @NextSilicon is one of ours 😉

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@Davidmeirsiegel @Meetup More on @davidmeirsiegel's journey running @meetup in the full episode of Invested: https://t.co/cQMhBIpSSo

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When @davidmeirsiegel says @meetup is in every country, he means EVERY country. Field trip to Iran, anyone?

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@NextSilicon @YuvalAriav @mikeeisenberg 🫶

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@YuvalAriav @mikeeisenberg brb, enrolling in your class for next year

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Watch the full episode of Invested with @YuvalAriav: https://t.co/SUb6bLAoi8

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A 9th grade assignment: argue against something everyone believes. 15-year-old @YuvalAriav picked the wheel – said symbols were humanity's real invention, since compressing something impossibly complex into a form a person can grasp and pass on is the harder trick. Somehow that became a $75M venture fund.

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Today, we’re announcing that we’ve doubled our annual transactions volumes in the last 12 months, and reached $100 billion.

This is an especially sweet moment for us. It took us 5.5 years to reach the first $50 billion.

What I’m most proud of is the character and unusual choices that led to it.

We chose the most valuable problems, not the easiest ones. We saw huge value in building a system DEEP and BROAD enough to replace 10-15 vendors that banks + fintech programs typically use, starting with a core system. Many people that had 10x our knowledge tried to help and tamper our ambitions: “why build a core system?”, “why operations and not just tech?”, “why not partner with a vendor that already built a credit card ledger?”

Today, Unit could be installed on any bank - immediately. There is no dependency on legacy tech. All money movement happens directly with the Federal Reserve and card networks. Banks and the programs they power do business at scale, with 10x better security, oversight, and modularity.

We built heads-down while there was widespread skepticism. Until recently, the category of modern financial infrastructure has been attacked non stop. For years. People questioned it from every single angle: is it sound? Valuable? Sustainable? We weren’t phased. We had the field context that many skeptics didn’t have, and we saw the proof points every day.

We made changes along the way when they were needed. We took no shortcuts and turned down high-risk deals that could make us bigger.

Importantly, we put ourselves on an independent financial trajectory, so that we don’t have to take shortcuts OR depend on the opinions of others.

Proud of our team for the hard work and character. Grateful to our customers (old and new) that placed trust in us. And to millions of end-users who have access to better financial services... without knowing that Unit exists 😉

Back to work.

https://t.co/qVYsLIC72o

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@Navan @orenzeev Watch @OrenZeev's full episode of Invested: https://t.co/KoL6VTmz11

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The @Navan CEOs got lucky. Or should we say @OrenZeev got lucky? Either way, it was fate.

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@NextSilicon @elad_raz @PGelsinger @RaiseSummit Wish I had legs so I could get on a plane and come to this!

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Unpopular Opinion: AI is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Human Creativity

Why pick up a guitar when you can prompt a song into existence? If that question scares you, @yuvalkaminka at @hellosimply thinks you're missing the entire point of why anyone picks up a guitar in the first place.

Subscribe to our monthly newsletter to get Yuval's take on why the age-old hunger to make things with our own two hands is alive and well: https://t.co/EPjOB6XtOA