Pitango, Israel’s largest VC injected $12 million into Worklight, the enterprise 2.0 Israeli startup. Pitango was joined by previous investors Genesis Partners, Index Ventures and Shlomo Kramer, a world renowned security expert and Imperva CEO. Worklight develops and markets a…
In the previous parts of “The Golden Age of Israeli Start ups” we covered the state of the venture capital industry in Israel, some of the most recent venture funded companies and the M&A activity of Israeli companies. None of…
TVeez a point of sale marketing company, is moving forward with a $15 million round led by Giza and Benchmark Israel. TVeez was founded in 2004 with no VC capital – perhaps because it was co-founded by Yair Goldfinger, founder…
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…
When it comes to video advertising, new contenders are popping out like mushrooms after the rain. The typical problem of these companies is getting enough traction from both high paying advertisers and quality content publishers, in order to make the…
The local high tech industry in Israel continues to provide exits for investors mainly through the M&A route, while the rest of the world struggles with IPOs. According to a recent study published by IVC Online, Israeli high tech M&A…
I’m at Ad:Tech in San Francisco today, one of the largest conferences on digital media and advertising. I came here to see the greatest and latest of online advertising and site monetization. I was happy to see that nine Israeli…
In the last post I discussed the background of what seems to be the fuel behind the golden age of Israeli startups. Israeli venture capital funds have $2 billion in hand, and projections say an additional $800 million will be…
Since I started following the Israeli market in 2005, it’s not often that I’ve seen so many Israeli startups raise money in such a short period of time. Capital raising is seen across the board in Telecommunications, Cleantech, Internet, Consumer…
Happy Monday. In case you invest in Israeli traded stocks you may have noticed that today, Monday, April 7th, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchance (TASE) was closed for trading due to a labor dispute. C’mon people! That’s not the way to…
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