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Joining Ben Gurion University Board of Governors

Fintech unicorn Tipalti raises $150 million in credit from JPMorgan and Hercules Capital

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Wharton Fintech Podcast: Dovi Frances, Group 11 — Breaking Barriers in Fintech and Venture Capital

TripActions Rebrands as Navan, Adds ChatGPT to Expense Reports

The 32 most important VCs in Los Angeles, according to other VCs

BridgeWise raises $13 million for generative AI-powered equity research platform

TECH TUESDAY: BridgeWise Raises $13MM to Transform Global Equity Research

Why Fintech Will Never Be The Same After 2023

You’re working from home more often, but using a lot less PTO. What gives?

Sunbit announces $250 million revolving debt facility with Credit Suisse and Waterfall Asset Management

Sunbit Announces James Paris has Joined as Chief Capital Officer

TripActions raises $300 million at $9.2 billion valuation, eyes IPO in 2023

Israeli startup Fintastic raises $12M to revolutonise FP&A with world’s first AI-driven Smart Platform

Exclusive: TripActions has filed confidentially for an IPO, targeting a $12 billion valuation, a rare exception in the frozen IPO market

Capital Markets Startup Deshe Analytics raises $6.5MM round led by Group 11

A fintech VC is disclosing a decade of return data showing a billion-dollar gain. Now he is challenging other VCs to open their books.

Israeli Online Education Startup Masterschool Raises A $100 Million Seed Round

Masterschool raises $100M seed round for its network of coding schools

MasterSchool raises $100M to address tech talent shortage

Masterschool announces $100 million Seed round to build network of tech career-training schools

Masterschool raises $100 million in Seed to address job shortages

Group 11 Welcomes Hamilton Lane as a New Investor in its Funds

Group 11 strikes $50 million deal with StepStone Group for third fund holdings

Group 11 strikes $50M deal with StepStone Group for third fund holdings

How TripActions went from zero revenue to a $7.5 billion valuation

Antidote raises $22 million Series A for telehealth platform

America’s Best Startup Employers

The World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2022

The Big Quit: Why Employee Wellness Should Be Prioritized Now More Than Ever

The Great Resignation is a myth: Meet the Great Reprioritization

Israel’s Tipalti teams up with Unified to better League of Legends tournaments

Fintech Startup Next Insurance Hires Former Airbnb Executive as CFO

The best talent in the health and wellness industry is in and around New York

Employees losing $2,000 a year due to unused paid time off

How An ESPN Analyst, TripActions And Taylor Guitar Recovered From Their Crises In 2021

Accounts payable automation startup Tipalti raises $270M, quadruples valuation to $8.3B

Group 11 Rings Opening Bell at Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

SMBX Revolutionizes Small Business Financing and Retail Investing with Innovative Small Business Bond Marketplace, Raises $11.5M to Fund its Growth

Health benefit platform Insurights raises $22 million seed round

From $0 in revenue to a $7.25B valuation: Why TripActions’ $275M raise has fintech to thank

Desire For Earlier Access To Secondary Marketplaces Grows

EquityBee snaps up $55M for a marketplace that connects employees with capital to help them exercise their stock options

Meet the only woman who heads a hi-tech unicorn in Israel: Eynat Guez

Unicorn startup Papaya Global nearly quadruples its valuation, eyes an IPO

HomeLight closes on $100M Series D at a $1.6B valuation as revenue surges

HomeLight Nabs $1.6 Billion Valuation in Zeev Ventures-Led Round

TripActions’s new Israeli R&D Center is “like joining Amazon 20 years ago”

Israel’s Fintech success lies in ‘Israeli ingenuity,’ says Tipalti Co-Founder and CEO

Sorbet Completes $21M Raise

Paid time off startup Sorbet reels in another $15M inside three months

Addepar Valued at $2.17 Billion as Investors Bet on Wealth-Management Tech

Venn, a social networking and services platform for hyperlocal neighborhood groups, raises $60M

Fintech company Sunbit raises $130 million at $1.1 billion valuation

Banking App Lili Raises $55 Million To Help Freelancers Tackle Expenses, Access Credit

Next Insurance raises $250M, doubling its valuation to $4B in under a year

Fintech Venture Capital Firm Group 11 Closes New Investment Fund

Papaya Global raises $100M more at a $1B+ valuation for tools to hire, pay and manage distributed workforces

EquityBee raises $20M to help startup employees actually afford their stock options

Traveltech company TripActions raises $155 million at a $5 billion valuation

“Not All Unicorn Valuations Are Real”

Snap acquired Voca.ai, which makes AI-based voice agents for call centers

Messaging giant Snapchat to acquire Israel’s Voca.ai for $70 million

Freelancer banking startup Lili raises $15M

Tipalti receives $150M at a $2B+ valuation after its accounts payable platform sees a surge in use

Papaya Global raises $40M for a payroll and HR platform aimed at global workforces

Savings Platform UNest Finds Momentum And Growth With Funding From Real All-Star Investor

Google’s CapitalG leads $250 million round for small business insurer Next Insurance

Next Insurance Lands $250M Series D

Are you ready to start traveling for work again? TripActions’ CEO is banking on it

Covid-19 ushered in fintech’s golden era

Airbnb is the hottest startup for stock options right now, and it’s not even close

HomeLight Acquires Disclosures.io, Launches Listing Management Services

Coronavirus May Mean More Indoor-Grown Produce At Your Local Supermarket

Plenty CEO on supplying 430 Albertsons stores with greens

Eric Poirier of Addepar is a 40 Under 40 honoree for 2020

Next Insurance Expands Product Offerings with Tools and Equipment and Upgraded Commercial Auto Coverage for Rented and Non-Owned Vehicles

CFO Research Identifies That 72% of Finance Organizations Spend as Much as 520 Hours Per Year on Manual Accounts Payable Tasks

Milestone achieved: Israeli Fintech company Tipalti hits the success button

Payroll and workforce management tool Papaya acquires HRIS platform Mensch

Anthos Capital and NBA All-Star Baron Davis back LA-based college tuition savings service, UNest

TripActions lands millions in financing as it plans for corporate travel comeback

Amid tourism slump, TripActions raises $125 million in convertible-to-IPO financing

TripActions Raises $125M Convertible-to-IPO Financing

Shark in the water: Dovi Frances invests in new Israeli FinTech startup

Lili raises $10M for its freelancer banking app

Lili, a New York City banking app for freelancers, raises $10 million

All-In-One Banking App Lili Closes $10 Million In Funding

Group 11 Joins Papaya Global as a Strategic Investor

Papaya Global Adds Group 11 as a Strategic Investor

Addepar raises $140 million so more of the ultra rich can know exactly what they’re doing with their money

5 immediate steps to navigate your stock options if you’ve been laid off from a startup and want to make the best financial choices for your future

Nevertheless She Persisted: How A Female Fintech Founder Raised Her Seed Round

Startup workers let go due to COVID-19 face billions in lost equity

Up 3-Fold In 2019, Next Insurance Vies With Berkshire Hathaway’s biBERK In $140 Billion Market

Employee stock options co EquityBee raises $6.6m

EquityBee Raises $6.6M For Launching Employee Stock Options Funding Solution in the US

College-savings startup U-Nest just added $1.5 million to its seed round.

College Savings App U-Nest Announces Investment from Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures

5 questions with CFO who jumped from one $4B unicorn to another

Dovi Frances receives Outstanding Achievement Award in Los Angeles

Group 11 LP Days 2023: Opening Remarks by Dovi Frances, Founding Partner

Group 11 LP Day 2023: Navigating the Stimulus Hangover: Focus on Technology and VC

Group 11 LP Day 2023: Welcome To The Age of Constraints

BridgeWise: Work it, Make it, Do it, Makes us, Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

Until Debt Do Us Part.

TripActions Announces a $304MM Round at $9.2BN

Masterschool: $100MM to Build the Future of Global Education

Group 11 Fund VI’s Opening Shot

The End is Near

What Our Portfolio Companies Say About Us

Managing the Coming Era of Chaos

Group 11 on the State of Venture Capital 2021

Go Plant a Tree — Tipalti’s long term growth

Something New Under the Sun

I Need a Doctor: How Insurights Simplifies Health Insurance Benefits

Everything’s Changing — Our Guidance for an Inevitable Future (video)

Everything’s Changing — Our Guidance for an Inevitable Future

Pizza Parties and Pizza Math

Papaya Global completes $250MM Series D Round, valuing the company at $3.7BN

Thought Leadership Articles – Group 11 team

The Scoop on Sorbet

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Where Everybody Knows Your Name

11 Israeli fintech unicorns helping to change the world

An early morning story about a coffee stain, a divorce and a new unicorn?

Financing All Necessities Under The Sun(bit)

Lili is Leading

Papaya Global now the fourth company to join Group 11’s growing stable of unicorns

A Whole New World: How EquityBee is Creating The Private Stock Market of the Future

Stay The Course

Early Morning thoughts about an inevitable future

Fintech’s Quantum Leap

Go All In Or Go Home

The Inevitability of a Trajectory

Why We Invested (Yet Again) in Papaya Global

Why we are Quadrupling Down on Insurtech Unicorn- Next Insurance

Equities Gone Wild — Bubble or Beginning?

Why we invested in Lili Banking

Why we invested in Papaya Global

Meet HomeLight — Once a realtor referral engine and now real-estate’s most powerful platform

Why Silicon Valley’s newest unicorn, Next Insurance, is taking over the business insurance industry

Seven good years at Tipalti (and the best is yet to come)

TripActions — not ‘just another’ unicorn — Part II

Gone in 60 seconds: How Sunbit is revolutionizing point-of-sale financing

Can realtor commissions be replaced with flat fees?

TripActions — Not ‘just another’ Unicorn — Part I

Why We Invested in Next Insurance

Another Brick In The Wall

Group 11 Founding Partner Dovi Frances Interviews Masterschool Co-Founder Michael Shurp

Dovi Frances Ben Gurion University 2022 Commencement Speech

Sunbit Connect – Keynote Speaker: Dovi Frances

Group 11 Rings Opening Bell at Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

“I think that the only answer at times of uncertainty is: do you have a fundamental belief that tomorrow will be better?”

Dovi Frances Keynote at Ben Gurion University (in Hebrew)

Dovi Frances at Israeli Fintech Week 2020

Group 11 Anti-Newsletter: The Unicorn Edition 🦄

Tipalti Breaking News

20 Minute Leaders interviews Dovi Frances

Tenoneten’s LA Venture Podcast with Dovi Frances

Investor Viewpoint – How Startups Can Overcome Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Fireside chat with Ariel Cohen, CEO of TripActions, and Dovi Frances

ZoomSide Chat: The Future of the US Economy

Say It Forward Podcast with Dovi Frances

Dovi Frances on the Future of Finance | ICON 2019

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