ATI Invests $2M in Phagolum Sepsis Diagnostic Toolkit

Welcome to VC Cafe. If you’re new around here, you may want to subscribe to our feed and get daily updates for FREE. Phagolum Ltd. is developing a diagnostic toolkit to detect sepsis, the leading cause of death in non-coronary ICU patients and the tenth most common cause of death overall. According to medical literature, [...]

Moving Large Packages of Data: Pando Raised $8.12 Million

Pando Networks, provider of peer-assisted content delivery services, has raised a $8.12 million second round of financing, from undisclosed backers (as reported by PE Hub). The investment falls short of Pando’s initial plan to raise $21 million (see Globes’ article). A prior round of approximately $11 million was raised in 2006 by Intel Capital, BRM Capital and Wheatley Partners.
Pando offers a [...]

Wikia and Kaltura Partner to Add Collaborative Video Capabilities to Wikia Communities

Lisa Bennett, Director of Public Relations & Marketing of Israel’s Kaltura.com, the first open source platform for video creation, management and collaboration, sent me the following announcement:
 
Wikia and Kaltura Partner to Add Collaborative Video Capabilities to Wikia Communities
Wikia deploys Kaltura’s open source MediaWiki Collaborative Video Extension, allowing users to collaborate in video and other forms [...]

VM Ware, Behind You: MSFT Buys Israeli Virtualization Startup Kidaro

Microsoft likes the flavor of Falafel - that’s one explanation for its second acquisition of an Israeli startup in two weeks.
Following the sweet exit of YaData, MSFT goes at it again and this time it’s Kidaro’s turn, an Israeli developer of desktop virtualization software for enterprises. The sum of the acquisition was undisclosed, but Globes [...]

Brazilian Optics Giant Buys Israel’s Civcom for $40M

Not only Microsoft is buying up Israeli start-ups. Brazilian optical network solutions giant Padtec has paid $30-40 million for Civcom, an Israeli pioneer in the development and manufacturing of cost saving optical solutions for communications, test and measurement, and military applications. The move comes on a wave of rapid expansion for Padtec as it seeks [...]

Israel’s Eyeblaster Files $115M Nasdaq IPO

Amid an upcoming recession, Eyeblaster, an Israeli company competing with Google and Microsoft on online campaign management solutions, has registered with the SEC for public trading on Nasdaq today. The IPO is valued around $115 million according to CNN. Shares will be listed under the ticker symbol “EYEB.” Eyeblaster said it will use the proceeds to cover [...]

Ten Israeli Billionaires In Forbes’ List

We have to be thankful for what we have, but who doesn’t think about the lifestyle of the rich and famous every now and then? private jets, exotic vacations and some very expensive perks.
According to the Forbes annual ranking of billionaires from around the globe, ten Israelis are already there, right alongside Larry, Steve, Warren and [...]

Israel’s Gigya raises $9.5M to become leader in widget monetization

Israel’s Gigya, the widget platform that boosts and tracks the distribution of widgets across the social web, has announced a $9.5 million series B round led by Mayfield Fund. Benchmark Capital and First Round Capital also participated in the round after previously investing $650,000 in a single financing round in November 2006. Rumors claim that the first round [...]

Sponsor Love: Thank You AdMob

If you’ve heard anything about mobile advertising, chances are that you’ve heard about VC Cafe’s new sponsor - AdMob. Serving over 2 billion targeted ads a month, AdMob is the largest mobile advertising marketplace in the web.
The methodology is simple: Through its advertising platform, AdMob brings together buyers and sellers of mobile ads. Publishers simply [...]

Students Invent Early-Detection Medical Device

Undergraduate students from the Technion Institute of Technology have invented a novel, non-invasive device “to detect respiratory problems at an early stage in premature babies, children and adults in intensive care units (ICU)”, according to the Jerusalem Post. The students created the device as part of an undergraduate project suggested by Professor Amir Landesberg and [...]

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