Blackberry Partners Fund Invests In Israel’s Worldmate

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Toronto-based Blackberry Partners Fund is a $150 million fund looking to bankroll mobile applications for smart phones, including RIM’s Blackberry. After months of deal scouting, the fund has announced three winners, including [...]

What Crisis? Three Israeli venture funds raise $250 million

Venture capital in Hebrew literally translates to “danger capital”. However, many Israeli entrepreneurs will tell you, that Israeli VC funds do all but taking risks. Despite the wealth of startups, Israel typically has a lower volume of deals. In the past month, three Israeli venture funds have announced financing rounds.
This is not a coincidence and [...]

Israeli Vlog is the Net’s Largest

Avi Rozen, an Israeli artist living in Haifa has created the world’s largest vlog. How did he do that?
A car driving by, a barking dog, a man brushing his teeth - these are examples of the day to day materials that Avi Rozen uses for his video blog “Bits of My Life“, a new form [...]

Bitesize Monday: Israeli startups, market condition

Markets plummeted this week, evaporating millions of dollars in value for well established public companies.

But what does it mean for startups? Here’s what the VCs have to say: Ron Conway, Sequoia (Rip Good times ppt), Benchmark and Israel’s Danny Cohen (Gemini),  Walden and Michael Eisenberg.

Joongel, the TC50 Demopit presenter (previously covered on VC Cafe) has [...]

Made In Israel: Kosher iPhone Apps

Apple recently opened its first store in Israel, but for some bizarre reason, the iPhone is not available for sale there. Even though Israelis are not able to purchase one yet, developers are cranking out iPhone apps like hotcakes. Some apps are Jewish-themed, others are completely mainstream.
The Israeli iPhone apps:
Fring - By Fringland
VOIP on your [...]

EyeView, Bukisa, Soluto: Introducing Early Stage Israeli Startups

Like the appetizer sampler in a restaurant, this is supposed to be a teaser, or an appetizer if you will. There’s a lot of new Israeli tech out there, and the only way to find out about it is covering one at a time. VC Cafe is happy  to introduce five Israeli early stage online [...]

Contrust cleans up the social media mess

Everyone is embracing user generated content – from mainstream newspapers like the Guardian and New York times, to social media (blogs, etc) and all the way to enterprise 2.0 – McDonalds, Marriott, BP and others, encouraging people to talk about their experiences with products, reviewing their latest vacation etc. But this level of freedom poses [...]

Tech and VC Networking Events In London

London is mostly known as the financial capital of Europe. Investment banks, Hedge funds and very wealthy individuals call this place home. Perhaps it’s just more than just that. Judging by the number of tech, media and venture capital events in London - the city’s entrepreneurs and tech community have similar energy to that of [...]

10 Reasons To Join The VC Cafe Network

The dictionary definition of a Network is “an association of individuals having a common interest, formed to provide mutual assistance, helpful information, or the like” ; Indeed, the VC Cafe Network (VCN) fits right in. Have you joined yet?
Started by Eze Vidra in 2007, the VC Cafe Network has the goal of providing a meeting [...]

MyThings Gets $5 More Million ‘Things’ In Round B

Another round B was announced for an Israeli startup today. Mythings, developer of a Personal Belongings Portfolio, managed to rack $5 Million in round B funding before the funding window closes.
The round was led by Dotcorp Asset Management and London-based GP Bullhound Sidecar. In May of 2006, MyThings has raised a series A of [...]

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