Outbrain’s New Outloud, A Powerful Paid Recirculation Tool (CEO Interview)

Today, Outbrain officially announced its business model with the launch of Outloud, a paid product for content recirculation and link recommendations within the growing Outbrain publisher network.

Attention Israeli Entrepreneurs: TechAviv Angels Launches

Yaron Samid’s TechAviv, the most extensive Israeli start up meetup group in Israel and the US, has announced the launch of a new angel network today. TechAviv Angels is an informal group of Israel’s ‘top dogs’ media founders, that grouped together to identify, fund and mentor early stage Israeli start ups.
I have to hand it to [...]

Content Rating Just Got Better: Carmel Ventures Backs OutBrain

Outbrain has just announced a $12M Series-B investment led by Carmel Ventures. Outbrain’s previous investors – Gemini Israel Funds, Lightspeed Venture Partners and GlenRock Israel – all participated in the round. In addition, Zohar Gilon and Rhodium have also joined the round. Following the investment, Shlomo Dovrat, co-founder and general partner of Carmel Ventures [...]

There can only be a single #1 recommendation platform for blogs: Outbrain Closes $5M A-Round

Outbrain announced the closing of a $5M A-round investment today, led by Gemini Israel Funds and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Outbrain’s seed investor GlenRock Israel, also participated in the round.
Outbrain is a content recommendation and rating platform for blogs, news and RSS content. Outbrain’s star ranking widget (as seen on VC Cafe) allows users to [...]

Quigo Brings Home the Bacon, 5min for $5M, TransChip Makes an Exit, Refresh 07

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826)

1. AOL buys Quigo for $340M. Yaron Galai and Oded Itzhak (featured on VC Cafe in the past) are probably happy to be part of AOL’s web advertising network. The deal adds about [...]

Combine the Collective Intelligence – Five Questions to OutBrain’s CEO

I recently had the pleasure to “e-meet” Yaron Galai, Co-Founder and CEO of Outbrain, the company behind the voting widget in the bottom of this post.
Yaron was kind enough to answer 5 questions for VC Cafe. Without further ado, see the scoop below.
Question: In simple words, What is Outbrain?

Yaron: Outbrain is a platform for ratings [...]

Quigo, a serious alternative for Google’s Ad-Sense, Preparing for IPO

Source: Paidcontent.org
Globes Online reports that Quigo, the NYC and Israel based online contextual ad technology provider, is preparing for a Nasdaq IPO in early 2008.
Quigo has raised $30 million from Institutional Venture Partners, at a company value of $250 million, as part of the preparations for the offering, it says. It closed [...]

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