Childs Play: Israeli High Schoolers Create Uber Popular Online Game

Welcome to VC Cafe. If you’re new around here, you may want to subscribe to our feed and get daily updates for FREE. The story of 16 year old Ido Tal and 19 year old Hen Mazolski can inspire bootstrapping entrepreneurs around the globe. The two high school students co-founded WeCreateStuff and didn’t think that […]

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Oversi Solves The Video Traffic Jam

Israeli startup Oversi officially presented OverCache MSP, a platform aimed to help Internet service providers manage and monetize over-the-top (OTT) video, ultimately improving the speed in which end users consume video.
According to a recent study presented by the Pew Internet project, 48% of internet users have been to video-sharing sites such as YouTube and the […]

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Israel Turns 60, The Silicon Wadi Flourishes (See Poster)

It’s not every day that Israel celebrates sixty years of independence, and despite of global and local economic and political shocks, Israel’s economy is stronger than ever. Here are some of the reasons that make Israel and the Silicon Wadi a strong investment destination:

The Shekel is growing faster than than the dollar
Israel has 150 publicly […]

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12 Israeli Startups To Compete At The IVA Finals

On May 19-20, Globes, DEMO and Red Herring will be holding a startup competition at the Israel Venture Association (IVA) conference. Each startup will have six minutes to present and the winner will receive automatic entry as a finalist at Demo Germany, a profile on Red Herring Magazine and the Israeli media.
This is the first […]

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Quick! Tickets Relased For MashBash Tel Aviv

Before I go any further - grab your free ticket to Mashbash Tel Aviv’s open bar free party on June 11th while they are still available:
Click here for the ticket sale. 500 tickets disappeared after less then ten hours. 100 more will be released in the next weeks.
Now that we got that out of the […]

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Investors Believe In Iamba Networks, Add $7 Million Investment

Iamba networks has secured a $7 million round from previous investors Pitango Venture Capital, Cedar Fund, Giza Venture Fund and UK-based Kreos Capital. The company develops chips for telecommunications, specifically Gigabit Passive Optical Networking (GPON), a technology that aims to replace […]

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Gaming Chips: PrimeSense Closes $20M in Round B

Canaan Partners led the $20.4 million funding round of Israeli startup Prime Sense Inc.  Gemini Israel Funds and Genesis Partners, prior investors in PrimeSense, also participated in this second round. I first wrote about PrimeSense on VC Cafe when they presented at CES this January.
PrimeSense is in fact a gaming company, creating technology that enables […]

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Israel Cleantech Ventures Exceeds Funding Expectations, Raises $75M

Today (May 5th), Israel Cleantech Ventures (ICV) announced today that it reached a final close of $75 million for its first fund, significantly exceeding expectations from its original target of $60M. ICV will invest in Israeli companies (or Israel-realted) in renewable energy, water purification, energy efficiency and clean technology.
ICV is the first Israeli cleantech-focused investment […]

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MediaBoost is Seeking A Capital Boost

I was really happy to find out that MediaBoost raised $1 Million from Teuza fund last week as part of a larger round that the company is looking to raise. The fund, a Fairchild Technology venture, had already invested $500K in MediaBoost last year, and judging by the prospects for the company, Teuza’s investment is […]

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AdYouNet Raised $1M, Building Advertising CRM System

Last week, stealth online advertising start-up AdYouNet Technologies (formerly known as Webbi) has raised $1 million from its current investors Xenia Venture Capital (TASE:XENA) and NetService Ventures. This is the company’s A round following a $400,000 invested last summer by International Venture Fund (IVF) of the US.
There’s not much out there about AdYoumNet besides the […]

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