On May 19-20, Globes, DEMO and Red Herring will be holding a startup competition at the Israel Venture Association (IVA) conference. Each startup will have six minutes to present and the winner will receive automatic entry as a finalist at…
Before I go any further – grab your free ticket to Mashbash Tel Aviv’s open bar free party on June 11th while they are still available: Click here for the ticket sale. 500 tickets disappeared after less then ten hours.…
Iamba networks has secured a $7 million round from previous investors Pitango Venture Capital, Cedar Fund, Giza Venture Fund and UK-based Kreos Capital. The company develops chips for telecommunications, specifically Gigabit Passive Optical Networking (GPON), a technology that aims to…
Canaan Partners led the $20.4 million funding round of Israeli startup Prime Sense Inc. Gemini Israel Funds and Genesis Partners, prior investors in PrimeSense, also participated in this second round. I first wrote about PrimeSense on VC Cafe when they…
Today (May 5th), Israel Cleantech Ventures (ICV) announced today that it reached a final close of $75 million for its first fund, significantly exceeding expectations from its original target of $60M. ICV will invest in Israeli companies (or Israel-realted) in…
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…
Last week, stealth online advertising start-up AdYouNet Technologies (formerly known as Webbi) has raised $1 million from its current investors Xenia Venture Capital (TASE:XENA) and NetService Ventures. This is the company’s A round following a $400,000 invested last summer by…
Online games are a huge traffic driver, but the current revenue models are limited. FUN Development Games is an Israeli company that is trying to put a spin on online gaming, by offering site owners the ability to embed a…
I’m testing the new version of Mozilla Firefox 3 beta 5 (you’ll be amazed how much difference there is with beta 1). Even though the speed is dramatically better, it is no excuse for having so many browser windows open.…
Jury, have you reached your verdict? Techcrunch’ s Michael Arrington says he has. Yesterday he reviewed Allrise.com, an Israeli site in private alpha that offers a community arbitration platform. What’s the verdict? He loved it. Users of AllRise can present…
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