Persay Voice Recognition Biomteritcs Grabs 2.4 NIS from Teuza

Welcome to VC Cafe. If you’re new around here, you may want to subscribe to our feed and get daily updates for FREE. TheMarker reports that voice recognition startup PerSay has raised one million NIS from the Israeli government fund Teuza. The investment was made as part of a larger round of 2.4 million NIS [...]

Bitesize Thursday: 10 Links on SEO, Design, Games, Policts and Fun

10 links that are worth your click:
1) SEO: Google published a 22-page long pdf guide on SEO for beginners. There’s nothing new there if you are a pro, but since Google are the ones who control SEO on the web, you should probably print and read.
2) Design: Smash Magazine notes the design trends in newspaper [...]

An Industry on “Life Support”: Notes from the BVCA Tech Spin Out 2008 in London

This morning I was invited to stop by Tech Spin Out 2008, a conference organized by the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA), with the goal of exploring the activities that help transform small companies into big companies.  As I mentioned many times in this blog, Israeli has the largest numbers of startups per capita in [...]

Playce provides Game Infrastructure As a Service: VC Cafe Interviews Yoram Avidan

Newsflash: the worse the economic situation, the more people play video games. It’s cheaper to stay at home and play Super Mario than to go out for a movie these days. According to a recent article by the New York Times, Video Game sales were up 18% in October, reaching $1.3 billion. There are many [...]

Crying Wolf: Or what Broke the VC Investment Model?

Doom and gloom reports return to all the major tech blogs - this time the crisis hits the Venture Capital Industry - starting with TheFunded.com’s editor Adeo Ressi, and his presentation to the Finance and entrepreneurship faculty at Harvard Business School titled “the canary is dead - something is wrong in venture capital“. The basic [...]

Mo’Minis Launches Mobile Game Development Platform

Exciting day for Israel based Mo’minis: the company has launched its new website offering an DYI mobile game studio and announcing GameCast #1 - a rapid mobile games creation contest. The company partnered with Sun Microsystems and Orange Israel in an effort to encourage the creation of original mobile java games.
Apart from cash prizes of [...]

Boxee, My6Sense and Didiom: What about compatibility?

I was very impressed with each of these three Israeli startups when I got the invitation to test them. Even
though Boxee, My6sense and Didiom are very different from one another, I’ve had compatibility issues with all of them. In a nutshell, if you don’t have a Mac and an iPhone - you’re behind the curve, [...]

Meet BreadCrumbz, An Israeli Finalist of The Adroid Developer Challenge

Android is coming, and the head on competition with the iPhone takes the shape of Developer Challenges. At the end of 2007, Google announced the Android Developer Challenge, which promised to provide $10 million in awards for those who develop of great apps for Google’s new phone. From the 1788 applications submitted worldwide Google chose [...]

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 [...]

MediaBoost is Seeking A Capital Boost

I was really happy to find out that MediaBoost raised $1 Million from Teuza fund last week as part of a larger round that the company is looking to raise. The fund, a Fairchild Technology venture, had already invested $500K in MediaBoost last year, and judging by the prospects for the company, Teuza’s investment is [...]

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