Made In Israel: Kosher iPhone Apps

Welcome to VC Cafe. If you’re new around here, you may want to subscribe to our feed and get daily updates for FREE. Apple recently opened its first store in Israel, but for some bizarre reason, the iPhone is not available for sale there. Even though Israelis are not able to purchase one yet, developers [...]

Mobixell Networks Got $6 More Million To Put Ads On You Cell Phone

 Israel and California based Mobixell Networks has announced a $6 million fourth funding round led by Apax Partners, Intel Capital (who also participated in the previous round), and Munich-based SMAC Partners which represents the Venture Capital arm of Siemens corp. Including this last round, Mobixell has raised $29 million to date. The company plans to allocate the [...]

Do you know Hooqs and MDJunction?

Innovation is coming out of Israel all the time, but we often only hear on the startups that “made it” in one way or another: those that got funded by Accel, those that signed deals with Linkedin or got acquired by IBM.
The truth is that most startups don’t make it. Which means, that they also [...]

Israel’s Gigya raises $9.5M to become leader in widget monetization

Israel’s Gigya, the widget platform that boosts and tracks the distribution of widgets across the social web, has announced a $9.5 million series B round led by Mayfield Fund. Benchmark Capital and First Round Capital also participated in the round after previously investing $650,000 in a single financing round in November 2006. Rumors claim that the first round [...]

Sponsor Love: Thank You AdMob

If you’ve heard anything about mobile advertising, chances are that you’ve heard about VC Cafe’s new sponsor - AdMob. Serving over 2 billion targeted ads a month, AdMob is the largest mobile advertising marketplace in the web.
The methodology is simple: Through its advertising platform, AdMob brings together buyers and sellers of mobile ads. Publishers simply [...]

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 [...]