“Invest in Israel” is a great initiative of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, Foreign Trade Administration to promote foreign investments in Israel. The website is a great resource for investment related material about the Israeli industry, addressed to…
One of my favorite blogs in Hebrew, thecoils, has posted a comprehensive overview of the venture capital and M&A activity of Israeli companies and funds in 2007, as well as some predictions for 2008. For those who can’t read Hebrew,…
Following the successful exit of grid storage company XIV, Network Appliance (NASDAQ:NTAP) announced the acquisition of Israel/Boston based Onaro, a private company co-founded in 2002 by four Israelis, veterans of Israeli military intelligence: Roy Alon (VP of development and customer…
It’s not very often that two Israeli venture funds complete closing for additional funds, but after all it shouldn’t surprise anyone. Israel has been ranked among the four most preferred global target markets for US venture capital funds and earmarked…
Israel’s Magic Software Enterprises, developer of business software development and integration tools, said it is selling its wholly owned subsidiary Advanced Answers on Demand (AOD) to private equity firm Fortissimo Capital for $17 million in cash. Fortissimo is a special…
XIV, its technologies and employees, will become part of the IBM System Storage business unit of the IBM Systems and Technology Group. IBM has confirmed the acquisition of Israeli grid storage start-up XIV Information Systems for an undisclosed sum, but…
Peter Thiel knows a thing or two about consumer internet. After all, he’s a PayPal cofounder, one of Facebook’s board members and its first investor ($500,000) way before its $15 billion valuation, giving him a hefty return of a billion.…
TypeMock, a semi veteran Israel-based startup, raised a first round from Evolution Venture Capital Fund. TypeMock has developed unit testing softeware that saves users the need to ‘refactor’ and ‘restructure’ code in order to make it testable, self reported to be at…
The Israel Venture Capital & Private Equity Journal (IVCJ) released that makes the case for incorporating startup companies in Israel. The author Barry Levenfeld, partner at Israeli law firm Yigal Arnon & Co., highlights the benefits of incorporating in Israel…
Lately, it seems like there’s a new startup competition or award announced every single day. Just recently I’ve covered Red Herring’s Top 100, Deloitte’s Fast 500, Le Web 3 start up competition and the list goes on. You’ve also probably…
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