Jonathan Medved is the founder of Israel Seed , a Jerusalem based VC , and also serves as the CEO of Vringo, an Israeli startup developing video ringtones. Jon, a California native, talked to the Washington Post about Israel’s unique…
Sharing is caring. Last week’s sessions and networking opportunities at the Red Herring Global Conference were certainly newsworthy. Over the course of three days in Seattle I met many top Venture Capitalists and Israeli entrepreneurs, several of whom met with…
I had a pleasant surprise waiting for me on Friday afternoon; a package from Israel, sent by Standard and Poor’s. The S&P Israel team sent me the 12th edition of the Directory of Israeli Public Companies (equities traded on the…
VentureBeat, one of my favorite VC Blogs, interviewed Eldad Tamir of the Israeli investment bank and VC fund Tamir Fishman. Eldad was one of the first foreign investors to announce his withdrawl from a major deal in Russia following the…
Last week I caught up with Yoav Leitersdorf at the Red Herring Conference in Seattle and asked him about his fund and its unique exit strategy. We also talked about Yoav’s connection to Israel and the companies he’s currently looking…
I’m back in San Francisco after a successful trip to Seattle. While I process my notes from the Red Herring Global conference, I wanted to share some of this week’s headlines in the Israeli tech and venture capital industries. Funding…
I’m typically not much of a gambler, espcially when I don’t know the odds – but if I had to put my money on the line, I’d say that the trend of international investments will only grow in the coming…
Another Israeli exit in the biotech sector. Clinical research firm Amarin agreed to acquire Israel-based privately held research and development company Ester Neurosciences for an initial $15m (€10.2m), in addition to $17m (€11.5m) in contingent payments. Ester Neurosciences Ltd. is…
How can you get a few dozen ideas for facebook apps for the price of an iPhone? announce a competition, of course. And that’s exactly what Unicell Inc did. Unicell is a cell content provider with some leverage created by…
PE Hub reports on Biotech M&A In Israel. Israel-based E-Mul Technologies, manufacturer of particle detection and field emission components used in nanotech instruments, purchasedIsrael-based QuantomiX, for an undisclosed sum. Quantomix develops WETSEM, a capsule technology that enables direct imaging of…
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