Ask the VC: Q&A with Gemini Israel Funds
Welcome to VC Cafe. If you’re new around here, you may want to subscribe to our feed and get daily updates for FREE. Sagi Rubin is an associate at Gemini Israel Funds. I came across Sagi’s blog, “The Grass is Greener on Our Side”, and asked him to answer a few questions for VC Cafe. [...]
Become an Angel Today with Philanthropy 2.0
Philanthropy is not reserved for the mega rich. If you are asking the question ‘what can I do to help fight poverty?‘ one of the answers is at the tip of your keyboard. Did you know that a mere $75 can be half of the ’seed round’ for entrepreneurs in a developing country? With the [...]
Who will create the world’s first Virtual TV Network?
NBC, BBC, ABC… and maybe soon RayV TV as well. Israeli RayV raised a second round of $8M to develop live 24 hour broadcasts of quality programming for the PC and TV in what they call a “Virtual TV Network”. Facebook’s investor Accel Partners, one of Israel’s most active VC funds, financed the round. [...]
Oberon Media’s "Showdown"
In all poker games, if more than one player remains after the last betting round, remaining players expose and compare their hands to determine the winner or winners. This is called the showdown.
Oberon Media, a leading casual gaming solution provider, held the cards tight this year after buying UK based I-Play, a mobile gaming company. [...]
Shvoong Homework Brings Social Collaboration to The Classroom
Israeli based Shvoong Homework brings ‘basecamp‘ style tools, to kids in school.
SH is a social network for students that aims to keep students organized, by adding an alternative to messy notebooks. Using Shvoong Homework, students can share homework online, keep their notes in project notebooks and create a calendar of reminders with [...]
Combine the Collective Intelligence - Five Questions to OutBrain’s CEO
I recently had the pleasure to “e-meet” Yaron Galai, Co-Founder and CEO of Outbrain, the company behind the voting widget in the bottom of this post.
Yaron was kind enough to answer 5 questions for VC Cafe. Without further ado, see the scoop below.
Question: In simple words, What is Outbrain?
Yaron: Outbrain is a platform for ratings [...]
How Does a Tiny Company Attract Big Investors?
Dynasec Ltd, a spin off subsidiary of TACT Computers has the answer (for them).Israel based Dynasec has just raised a $1M funding round based on a valuation of $6.7 million.While the company size is tiny, investors include: Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse Group, along with Greek and Polish banks. When asked by Globes, TACT’s [...]
Sports Fan Portal Raises $3.2
Sports fan portal Sportingo has raised a $3.2 million round from Ingenious Media of London. This is confirmed by Sportingo’s latest blog post.
The company started in Israel in August of ‘06, with the goal of letting fans of a range of sports create a sport news community and write their own match reviews or [...]
Eye Opener - Redfin Model Numbers vs. Reality
Guy Kawaski posted an insightful post comparing Redfin’s financial valuation numbers to reality during two years of operation, courtesy of CEO Glenn Kelman.
I was surprised to see how accurately the model predicted some of the costs associated to operations, taxes and services, and in contrast how far off it was when it came to [...]
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