Give it a test: TypeMock raises $1.5m

Welcome to VC Cafe. If you’re new around here, you may want to subscribe to our feed and get daily updates for FREE. TypeMock,   a semi veteran Israel-based startup, raised a first round from Evolution Venture Capital Fund.
TypeMock has developed unit testing softeware that saves users the need to ‘refactor’ and ‘restructure’ code in order to make [...]

Delaware vs Israel: where are the biggest and easiest exits?

The Israel Venture Capital & Private Equity Journal (IVCJ) released that makes the case for incorporating startup companies in Israel. The author Barry Levenfeld, partner at Israeli law firm Yigal Arnon & Co., highlights the benefits of incorporating in Israel given the recent changes in tax and exit circumstances, which makes Israeli incorporation easier and [...]

Four Israeli finalists in the “Crunchies”

Lately, it seems like there’s a new startup competition or award announced every single day. Just recently I’ve covered Red Herring’s Top 100, Deloitte’s Fast 500, Le Web 3 start up competition and the list goes on. You’ve also probably heard of the Crunchies, same idea, but louder buzz. The Crunchies is a collaboration [...]

Real Estate, real money

I’ve been reading a about a few major real estate deals involving Israeli investors, and though it’s not the core focus of VC Cafe, I thought that multi billion dollar deals are worth a little shout.
Israeli Company to Invest $135 Million in Chennai Real Estate
Elbit Medical Imaging Ltd (EMI), an Israeli firm traded in the [...]

Gary Snowman goes to Israel

Blueprint Ventures put a smile on my face with their annual animated holiday greeting featuring Gary Snowman, the animated VC. It’s the third year Gary represents Blue Print Ventures, and this time he’s all about globalization, including a trip to Israel. To quote Gary:
“Take Israel, nobody is more passionate about making deals happen. In Israel [...]

Clip Djour: VC panel explains why to invest in Israel and Europe

The AlwaysOn Venture Summit is a two-day gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and technology trends impacting the global growth investor, hosted in Half Moon Bay, CA. This year’s summit attracted five hundred of the most influential members of the tech investment community including “best of breed” CEO presentations, VCs, investment bankers, [...]

Free international calls from your cell phone, no PC required

Jajah, an Israeli VOIP provider, is taking VOIP to the next level with a new product called Jajah Direct. As its official blog explains, the service offers international calls for the price of a local call with no need for internet connection. Unlike Gizmo, Skype, Vonage and other VOIP providers, JaJah Direct removes the [...]

2007 M&A activity in Israel and then some

Invest in Israel, the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, Foreign Trade Administration has published a list of Israeli M&A deals in the recent years. I cleaned it up a little bit and presented below some of the Israeli M&A deals that made headlines in 2007. Missing from this list [...]

Bitesize Tuesday: hot Israeli cleantech, startup, vc, biotech and M&A headlines @ VC Cafe

2008 is almost upon us and the deal flow doesn’t seem to slow down for the holidays. I can hardly keep up with the headlines, so here’s a short recap of the latest business news in the Israeli start up and vc industry.
Israeli Cleantech News
New Israeli fund raises $100 million for Cleantech VC Fund
Tamarix Ventures [...]

National VC association makes predictions for 2008

The National Venture Capital Association conducted a survey asking 170 of its members about their predictions for 2008.
The questions were:
1) How much will vcs invest in 2008?
Median answer: 71% of the respondents said between 20 and 29 billion dollar will be spent on vc investments next year.
2) Which global investment region are you [...]

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