Red Herring Global Pictures

My friend sent me the Flickr stream from the Red Herring Conference in Seattle. Good times.
Here are select pictures from the event:

Pensive talk with a VC following a panel on VC investments in Europe.
The panel discussed opportunities for American and Asian companies entering the expanded European Union, which consists of 25 countries and 300 million [...]

25 Israeli firms opened offices in the Valley in the last 18 months

“Israelis’ time arrives – tech making trek from the dessert to the valley” – that is the title of Adrienne Sanders’ excellent article published in San Francisco Business Times this morning. Adrienne lined up a comprehensive outlook on the Israeli entrepreneurs who made the move from Israel to Silicon Valley and the Bay Area [...]

Another Israeli exit: Netmanage sold to Rocket software for $69 million

The Israeli M&A market is on fire. Just last week HP announced the purchase of Israel-based Nur Microprinters for $117.5 million and today it’s the turn of NetManage (Nasdaq:NETM), a company with deep Israeli roots.
The 27-year-old company founded by Zvi Alon has been acquired by Rocket Software for approximately $69 million cash, turning a [...]

Israeli companies take 2nd and 3rd places in startup competition

Le Web, a tech conference in Paris organized by Loic Le Meur of Seesmic, attracted some of Europe’s most promising startups. Each year, LeWeb hosts a startup competition that consists of short presentations in front of a panel of judges. From 130 applicants, 33 contestants were selected to participate in this year’s Le Web 3 [...]

Breaking News: kwiry launches viral platform, connects offline world with online

How often do you watch TV, read a magazine, talk to friends or see a billboard and think, “I should check that out” or “I should e-mail that to a friend”? Ever tried to remember a long URL for a special offer in a magazine or billboard? Kwiry hopes to change that by [...]

The alternative 2008 web 2.0 buzzword forecast

As we approach the end of 2007, it’s time to look back at the year that was and… start making forecasts for 2008.

Breakthrough for gamers: no more joysticks thanks to 3Dv Systems

Gamers listen up: 3DV Systems, a pioneer Israeli tech startup and world leader in 3D video imaging, has developed a revlutionary technology that could revolutionize the $30 billion gaming industry. It’s latest development is called ZCam™ – a low cost 3D camera for the PC with gesture recognition [...]

Testing is important: Optimal Test raises $16M in second round

Israel-based startup Optimal Test has raised $16 million in a second round of financing led by Evergreen Venture Partners as well as former investors – Carmel Ventures and Pitango. The round brings to $30 million the total VC funds raised by the company.
Optimal Test develops a test suite for maximizing IC yields through [...]

Monday Roundup: 10 Israeli Business Headlines

Let’s get right to it:
1. Sequoia invests in Israeli based Kenshoo, a SEM competitor to Google’s Double Click. Unlike Omniture and Atlas Solutions, Kenshoo enables both financial and quality management of SEM campaigns. [via The Marker (Hebrew) and via]
2. HP continues growth-through-acquisition – buys Israel based Nur Macroprinters for $117.5 million in cash. Yuval Cohen, [...]

Israel scores 2 out 10 top alternative search engines

Alt Search Engines, a blog by Charles Knight covering alternative-search, ranked the top 10 alternative search engines of 2007. Among the ten finalists, the 2nd and 4th places were taken by Israel-based search engines.
Answers.com is an SEO engine covering over 4 million topics through relationships with about 180 reference publishers. [...]

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