Sponsor Love: Should QA Testers be Certified?

It has been a good quarter for crowdsourcing start up uTest:

Expanded software testing marketplace by 30% quarter-over-quarter
Acquired 37 new customers, and increased testing community to 18,000
Added application profiling and discussion threads to platform
Complete website redesign, adding a human face to crowdsourced testing
Won five prestigious awards, incl. “Best New Co. of 2009” (Stevies) & Gartner “Cool [...]

My6Sense Coming Out Of Stealth for the iPhone

My6Sense is coming out of stealth in the coming days. The Israeli start up offers an iPhone app that pushes content to the user in a signgle feed, from his chosen feed subscriptions (RSS of news, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc). The result is a ‘river’ of information which continually learns about what’s important to the [...]

Macabbi Tel Aviv’s New ‘Canadian’ Sponsor

Macabbi Tel Aviv, one of Israel’s largest footbal teams made an official announcement of its new sponsor today – a Canadian financial services company that will provide the company $500K per season. The sponsor is Paygea, a provider of proprietary payment processing services for credit card companies.
Nothing out of the ordinary so far, except that [...]

How To Raise Money: Israel’s 5Min Raised $7.5 Million

Israel-based “How to” video site 5min.com has announced a second round of financing of $7.5 million. The round was led by Globespan Capital Partners, a new investor in the company. Spark Capital, 5min’s previous investor, joined the round.

Israel’s Pitango to Raise a China Fund – Will it Work?

Pitango, one of Israel’s largest venture capital funds with $1.3 Billion in assets under management, plans to team up with a Shenzhen Capital Group to launch a $100 to $200 million fund with a focus on Chinese start ups.

Exclusive: Kampyle Raises Round from Carmel Ventures

Feedback analytics start up Kampyle has raised an undisclosed round from Carmel Ventures. Founded in 2007 by Ariel Finkelstein, Ilan Steiner and Eran Sabir, Kampyle has developed a SaaS platform enabling webmasters to manage user feedback.
As featured on VC Cafe, Kampyle’s flagship product, Kampyle for websites is especially popular with eCommerce sites. Apart from the [...]

Israel Venture Capital Down 40% In Q2 2009

The IVC Research Center has released its Quarterly Survey today for the first half of 2009. According to the report, 122 Israeli companies raised $279 million from both local and foreign venture investors in the second quarter of 2009. The amount represents a 40% decline compared to the similar period in 2008 ($465M).
Let’s take a [...]

CEO Interview: Watchdox SaaS Document Protection

How many times did you hesitate before sending a sensitive document through gmail or IM?  Israeli start up Confidela, created WatchDox, a SaaS platform for organizations to send documents securely, control and track who views, edits, prints or forwards them. VC Cafe asked CEO Moti Rafalin 10 questions about the document security, SaaS  and lessons [...]

In Israel Next Week

I will be in Israel next week on vacation. While I won’t be holding a Start up Roundtable this time around, I will be happy to casually meet for coffee in Tel Aviv on Sunday July 12th.  
I would love to hear original ideas and talk to people with passion. If you have something interesting to discuss and you’d like to [...]

  • Recent Comments

  • Recent Posts