Red Herring North America: Do’s and Don’ts in Startup Fund Raising

A week ago, I took Caltrain south to San Jose and attended Red Herring North America 2008 as a media guest. The conference featured two days of keynote presentations, roundtable panels and corporate presentations from approximately 100 companies in the region selected by Red Herring as the top 100 private companies in North America.  One [...]

Silicon Valley Tightens Connection With Israel

Many international guests gathered in Israel last week for three parallel occasions. The first was a business delegation of key industry executives from the Valley led by the Jewish Federation, including my mayor, San Francisco’s Gavin Newsom. In a video interview to Israel21c, Gaving expressed that the real Israel is very different than what is [...]

Bitesize Monday: 5 Israeli Companies Get Cash Injections

Ben Gurion once said: “In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles”. Boy was he right. Ehud Olmert’s entanglement in what seems to be a deep bribery case, is the sixth investigation opened against Israel’s prime minister since 2006. Opponents of the Kadima party are demanding Olmert’s resignation, which might [...]

Lightspeed Venture Partners Oversubscribes Its Eight Fund, Raised $800M

Despite the ominous predictions saying that VC funds will have difficulty raising more money this year, Lightspeed Venture Partners has announced the closing of its eight fund (Lightspeed Venture Partners VIII), oversubscribing its $675 million target by $125 million reaching a grand total of $800 million. The recent round puts Lightspeed Ventures at $2 billion [...]

Childs Play: Israeli High Schoolers Create Uber Popular Online Game

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 the flash game they had developed without ever meeting face to face would get any attention. After recording 5 million (!) downloads, winning [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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