You can always travel to Silicon Valley, you don't have to live there - we live in a global village nowadays. Even though I now live in Mountain View, the funding attempt I mention in the post was done on a 3 week visit to the valley (from Israel, no less).
EDIT to elaborate: Your case just proves my point. You lived in Israel and failed to get funding from Silicon Valley. Now you're in Mountain View, presumably (I'm assuming a lot here, I know) because there's a better startup climate.
Have you ever tried raising in Israel. I understand the funding scene is very active over there.
Not sure what your case is - if read my comment, you'd notice I said I traveled to silicon valley from Israel. Just get on a plane and you're here, if it's important enough for you.
Naturally, I did try to raise in Israel. The funding scene there is not active at all, perhaps you meant the startup scene. There's very few funds that do seed rounds and they do a very small amount of investments per firm (1-2 a year). The angel scene is also underdeveloped. Israel is not a good place to raise seed money.
That's really interesting position, considering all the news I keep hearing about how Israel has a great approach to technology etc. Where I live (Croatia), Israel is the poster boy of the right approach to startups and investing outside the Valley...
