Israeli start up runs out of sugar

Welcome to VC Cafe. If you’re new around here, you may want to subscribe to our feed and get daily updates for FREE. It seems like the number of Israeli Internet startups just keeps growing, but some don’t make it. The Israeli startup Raw Sugar is one that evidently didn’t.
RawSugar can mosts easily be described […]

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Gates: Israeli human capital unique

Microsoft founder Bill Gates features on a new movie to encourage investments in Israel, in which the world’s richest person testifies to the wealth of human capital found in the country.
“The quality of education is the key to the uniqueness of Israel,” Gates says on the video, which will be distributed by the Ministry of […]

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Israel Venture Capital: High-tech M&As totaled $10.58b in 2006

Israeli High-Tech M&As valued at $10.58 billion;
$693 million raised in Israeli IPOs

This amounts to a third of the total figure for 2000-2005.
The figure does not include Berkshire Hathaway’s acquisition of Iscar Ltd. early this year.
IVC Online says the largest deal this year was Hewlett Packard Co. acquisition of Mercury Interactive Corp.’s for $4.5 billion. Other […]

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Diagnosing The World’s Biggest Killer

TopSpin Medical, an Israeli start-up, is an emerging growth company with a local Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) device for detecting heart disease.Source: Globes Online
Coronary heart disease is the number one killer in the western world. According to the American Heart Association, more than 7 million TopSpin Medical, is currently completing the development of a novel […]

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The 2007 US / Israel Venture Summit

On March 20th, more than 300 venture capitalists, private investors, corporate VCs, investment bankers, entrepreneurs and potential strategic partners will get together at Newark, NJ for the annual US/ Israel Venture Summit.
Up to 40 Israeli companies seeking initial rounds of funding will be selected to present and exhibit their investment opportunities to a leading […]

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Cramer likes VeriFone

CNBC’s Jim Cramer, on his “Mad Money” TV show, spoke highly of VeriFone, a company that makes point-of-sale electronic payment devices - the credit- and debit-card-swiping machines found at checkout counters that people use to make purchases. He described it as an example of an opportunity for investors continuing to profit from holiday sales, even […]

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Fitch changes Israel’s outlook to Positive

Fitch: Israel’s net external creditor position, high per capita income exceed those of many higher-rated countries.Source: Globes
External solvency indicators have continued to improve and strong inward and outward investment reflect Israel’s growing integration with the world economy. Last but not least, Israel’s public debt ratio has declined and over the time horizon of the […]

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Betocracy - Harness the Power of Prediction Markets

Betocracy will allow you to create your own market bids and predict the outcome of events such as the 2008 elections or year end bonuses.
Decision markets, otherwise known as prediction markets, idea futures or simply bets, are gaining visibility as an important forecasting tool.
Theoretically, the bets themselves can serve as a decision-making tool for CEOs […]

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BioPetrol transforms sewage sludge into fuel

Sewage sludge is the last place where you’d expect to find something valuable. But the brains behind Israeli startup BioPetrol say it is exactly the place where it is possible to find gasoline and natural gas.
Source: Israel21c
The company has developed a method of extracting oil out of sewage sludge, and converting it into various petroleum […]

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Changing The Present - A Marketplace for Philanthropy

ChangingThePresent.org claims that it will transform nonprofits the way that malls tranformed shopping.
The website offers a marketplace for philanthropy. You prbably heard about this new trend in the media. People are discovering that the best way to show you care for someone isn’t giving them something they don’t need, but rather in doing something to […]

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