Libertad Ventures News
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Mossad's Venture Arm to Diversify Portfolio
Libertad Ventures, an early stage technological innovation fund established by Mossad, is expanding its focus to additional sectors including fintech, robotics, and smart city technologies. The fund, which does not disclose the names of its portfolio companies, aims to diversify its portfolio to include companies in fields such as big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and drones. The decision to expand comes after receiving a wide range of startup pitches in the past two years. Libertad Ventures has already benefited Mossad with some of its portfolio companies.
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Why Does Israeli Spy Agency Mossad Invest in Startups via Libertad Ventures? - The Sociable
The Mossad spy agency of Israel is expected to make another open call to invest in startups through its VC arm Libertad Ventures. Libertad Ventures is looking to invest some $580,780 or more in promising startups in the tech world. Last years open call focused on startups working in robotics, energy, encryption, webint, and NLP and text analysis. The Mossad specializes in espionage, which may deter some startups from collaborating. However, Libertad Ventures promises to encourage innovation and creation of groundbreaking technology. The Mossad and Libertad Ventures have a parallel relationship to the CIA and In-Q-Tel. The Mossad and CIA have been in mutual cooperation since the 1950s. The article also mentions the connection between Pokemon GO, Niantic Labs, Keyhole, In-Q-Tel, and the CIA. The Mossads venture capital arm, Libertad Ventures, does not publicly disclose the companies it invests in.
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Mossad's Venture Arm Selects Startups for its Secretive Portfolio
The Mossads technological innovation fund, Libertad Ventures, has completed its first round of funding in Israeli startup companies. The fund aims to increase the intelligence agencys knowledge base and foster collaboration with Israels startup scene. The chosen startups will develop their projects throughout 2018-2019, with the Mossad receiving a license to use the intellectual property developed. Libertad intends to announce further developments in the upcoming months and publish a second call for proposals.
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http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israels-Mossad-is-looking-for-a-few-good-startups-498063
The Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, has launched a technological innovation fund called Libertad. The aim of the project is to enable the Mossad to stay ahead of the next big thing in technology by taking advantage of Israels start-up ecosystem. The Mossad is looking for start-ups in areas of interest and wants to invest in their ideas to obtain the technology it needs. The fund is offering up to NIS 2 million in equity-free capital for R&D projects. The Mossad has issued calls for proposals in the fields of robotics, energy, encryption, web intelligence, and big data and text analysis. The Mossad funding is not a capital investment, but rather a way for the agency to use the technology developed during the projects.
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