Flash is Cash for Israel’s Wix.com, Announcing Series B

This just in: Wix.com, the Israeli flash website creation platform, has received a $3.5 million in round B, led by previous investors Mangrove Venture Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners. To date Wix has raised $8.5 million including this round.

In addition, as hinted by Co-CEO Allon Bloch in a VC Cafe interview a few months ago,  [...]

Users leaving you? Win back the customers with Kampyle for Software

Kampyle For Software, the latest creation of Israeli startup Kampyle, is a fully serviced feedback analytics platform for software developers. At times like this, it’s all about keeping your users happy.
Over a year after our first interview, I had a chance to speak with Ariel Finkelstein, CEO of Israeli startup Kampyle. Since the public opening in June 2008, Kampyle [...]

Oberon: Casual Games Are Coming To China

Despite the crisis in the market, Oberon Media, the Israeli-US startup leading the casual gaming industry, has announced a $20 million round raised from Infinity Equity’s I-China Fund, a venture fund focusing on Israeli-Chinese related opportunities. With this strategic partnership Oberon is looking to expand its success to China.
The investment plays a strategic role in Oberon’s penetration to China. [...]

Project Better Place and The Zero-Zero Effect

By now, if you have heard of electric cars, you probably know about Project Better Place (PBB), an ambitious startup building electric car infrastructure in Israel and Denmark led by CEO Shai Agassi.
I came across Agassi’s talk on YouTube and thought he made an extremely bright presentation on his vision and the path the company [...]

Why pay for the milk when you can buy the cow?

Monster Venture Partners has acquired Israeli startup BitWine and replaced the CEO. Will VC exits become a new trend?
Monster Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Seattle, has completed the acquisition of a majority share in the Israeli startup. Ronnie Gurion, a former Director of Business Development at Expedia, was hired as [...]

New Year, New Initiatives on VC Cafe

I’m very excited to experience the European startup scene first hand. Europe has a huge amount of Image representing Seedcamp as depicted in undiscovered talents, I already had an impressive introduction to it by attending Saul Klein’s Seedcamp London as a product management mentor to 23 startups a few weeks ago.

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