Month: October 2007
19 posts
Halloween Roundup: Google’s platform, EasyStart, Ideas08 and more
A few quick bytes of recent news that didn’t get their own post on VC Cafe: Open Social,…
The New Million Dollar Page (wannabe) and How I Saved an Alien
It’s silly, but what if this crazy idea worked? Save an Alien, an Israeli Facebook app hopes to…
Don’t Stop Believing – Imagine Communications Scores $15M for Broadband TV
The Broadband TV niche in Israel is on fire. Following RayV’s $8M round earlier this month, Israel-based Imagine…
Shai Agassi Reinvents the Gas Pump for All-Electirc Cars @ Better Place
After almost becoming the CEO of SAP global, Shai Agassi now aims to reinvent ‘the pump’ – for…
Goldman Sachs Invested $100M in Israeli Mobileye
Mobileye, a Top100 Innovator according to Red Herring magazine, develops vision systems to prevent imminent accidents by providing…
TGIF – Friday Wrap Up and Weekly News
This week was full of tech news that deserve some VC Cafe attention. Here’s a short recap on…
The Grass Can Be Greener – Update on Clean Tech
Earlier this month, Green Tech Media posted a great update byMeir Ukeles of Israel Cleantech Ventures on the…
SmartShopper Makes an Exit, Strengthens Z a n g o
Yet another Israeli exit this week. SmartShopper, a browser based comparison shopping engine was acquired by WA based…
Goodbye HTML, Hello Flash – Wix.com Starts The Web-Top Revolution
“Every time you say web 3.0 a start up dies”. Israeli stealth startup Wix.com is part of the…
Taking on BIG Challenges – G.ho.st Aims High
We’re in conference season here in San Francisco and the Web 2.0 Summit that ended last week was…