CrowdIT, the company behind DoNanza, secures funding from AfterDox Angels

CrowdIT Ltd., the company which operates the freelance work search engine DoNanza, has secured a “several hundred thousand dollar” investment from the AfterDox Angels Investment Group, writes Shiri Habib-Valdhorn at Globes.

Product Case Study: BloggersBase

As the volume of user generated content grows, discovering quality content is becoming harder and harder. Just think about how much crap you read in blogs for the one link you feel is note worthy, or these days, Twitter worthy. BloggersBase is looking to solve the problem through a competition-based discovery platform that rewards bloggers [...]

SundaySky Will Revolutionize Video Marketing, Raises $8M

SundaySky came out of stealth mode today, announcing its first round of institutional funding. Globespan Capital Partners and Carmel Ventures led the $8 million investment round for this Israeli start up, previously backed by Yossi Vardi.
I’ve been waiting for this announcement for quite a while, after hearing feedback from a friend who saw the company’s [...]

Come2Play: Multi player games get social

Come2play wants to make multi-player games go social. The company offers a white label multi-player game API with a flavor both for site owners and game developers.
Come2play was founded by 3 Israelis (Alon Barzilay, Erez Naveh and Yoav Zibin) in June 2007 and currently has 7 employees in Haifa, Israel. According to crunchbase Come2Play [...]

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 [...]

Complete The Feedback Loop: Exclusive Interview With Kampyle’s CEO

Why are users leaving your site? Why are they leaving full shopping carts and going else where? Is there something wrong with your fonts and Firefox 3 beta 5? Those are questions that many site owners ask themselves daily. Until recently, there were not too many tools available to extract that kind of insight, but [...]

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 [...]

Labs, Incubators and Angel Funds Search For Early Stage Startups

It’s good to be a startup in Israel right now. Venture capital investments hit a seven year record, and everyone seems to be looking for early stage startups. Angels have found their place in the food chain, and it all seems to make sense.
1) The early stage investors are interested in ideas, and willing to [...]

Bitesize Monday: 8 Israeli Internet startup headlines for the week of 02.11.08 | VC Cafe

Last week’s top story was with no doubt Microsoft’s bid to acquire Yahoo. The plot was full of twists and drama, saved only to”Jurassic Park” style M&A deals like this one. Israel didn’t stand still last week, so I’ve gathered the most interesting startup and venture capital headlines of the week in my bitesize format.
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Doron [...]

WIFI Headlines: Starbucks Dumps T-Mobile, WeFi launches Mobile and Facebook Apps

How many times have you sat down with your overpriced Starbucks soy latte and the internet couldn’t connect? Apparently too many times, because Starbucks decided to do something about it. In an official press release, Starbucks got rid of T-Mobile and announced plans to deliver AT&T Wi-FiSM service at more than 7,000 company-operated Starbucks locations [...]

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