Enterprise 2.0: Worklight Scores $12 Million in Series B

Pitango, Israel’s largest VC injected $12 million into Worklight, the enterprise 2.0 Israeli startup.  Pitango was joined by previous investors Genesis Partners, Index Ventures and Shlomo Kramer, a world renowned security expert and Imperva CEO.
Worklight develops and markets a line of server products that consumerize the orporate computing experience by making popular consumer services like [...]

The Golden Age of Israeli Startups: Product Innovation (Part IV)

In the previous parts of “The Golden Age of Israeli Start ups” we covered the state of the venture capital industry in Israel, some of the most recent venture funded companies and the M&A activity of Israeli companies. None of the above matter, without compelling products that solve a user’s need. Innovation is the propagator [...]

Tveez Marketing Intelligence Raises $15 Million

TVeez a point of sale marketing company, is moving forward with a $15 million round led by Giza and Benchmark Israel. TVeez was founded in 2004 with no VC capital – perhaps because it was co-founded by Yair Goldfinger, founder of Dotomi and one of the founders of Mirabilis, the developer of the ICQ [...]

Do you know Hooqs and MDJunction?

Innovation is coming out of Israel all the time, but we often only hear on the startups that “made it” in one way or another: those that got funded by Accel, those that signed deals with Linkedin or got acquired by IBM.
The truth is that most startups don’t make it. Which means, that they also [...]

IMCandy: A Sweet Way to Monetize Your Video Content

When it comes to video advertising, new contenders are popping out like mushrooms after the rain. The typical problem of these companies is getting enough traction from both high paying advertisers and quality content publishers, in order to make the match between the ad and the content. Imcandy, a new Israel-based startup, presents a new [...]

The Golden Age of Israeli Startups: Mergers and Acquisitions (Part III)

The local high tech industry in Israel continues to provide exits for investors mainly through the M&A route, while the rest of the world struggles with IPOs. According to a recent study published by IVC Online, Israeli high tech M&A deals were valued at $3.2 billion in 2007, spanning across 75 deals, the second highest [...]

Nine Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Ad:Tech San Francisco 2008

I’m at Ad:Tech in San Francisco today, one of the largest conferences on digital media and advertising. I came here to see the greatest and latest of online advertising and site monetization. I was happy to see that nine Israeli companies are exhibiting in the conference. Below is a quick background on each one, from [...]

The Golden Age of Israeli Startups: Money, Money Money (Part II)

In the last post I discussed the background of what seems to be the fuel behind the golden age of Israeli startups. Israeli venture capital funds have $2 billion in hand, and projections say an additional $800 million will be raised in 2008. The Economist however, seems to disagree by predicting a pessimistic future to [...]

The Golden Age? Israeli Startups Experience Funding Streak (Part I)

Since I started following the Israeli market in 2005, it’s not often that I’ve seen so many Israeli startups raise money in such a short period of time. Capital raising is seen across the board in Telecommunications, Cleantech, Internet, Consumer Electronics and Biotech in the last couple of weeks. Is this the Golden Age of [...]

Invest in Israel: March 2008 Newsletter

Happy Monday. In case you invest in Israeli traded stocks you may have noticed that today, Monday, April 7th, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchance (TASE) was closed for trading due to a labor dispute. C’mon people! That’s not the way to run the economy in 2008.
Fortunately, the March 2008 issue of the “Invest In Israel” brings [...]

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