AOL completed another acquisition of an Israeli start up. It started in 1998, when ICQ was sold for $406M, continued a week ago with the Quigo M&A for $340M, and it is now the turn of Israel-based Yedda, a semantic…
Catching up with some of the recent deals in the industry. Below is a short recap of what’s been getting money these days: 1. Octavian Inc, a leading provider of Separately Managed Account (SMA) solutions in the Wealth and Investment…
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826) 1. AOL buys Quigo for $340M. Yaron Galai and Oded Itzhak (featured on VC Cafe in the…
Eilon Agam, former VP of content at Israeli telecom giant Pele-Phone, gathered a group of private investors to start a new PE fund, EMB Capital Ltd. EMB is planning to be a private equity fund that focuses on internet and…
If you’re familiar with the latest James Bond movies, this product will sound as if it came out of the MI6 laboratories. As the mobile phone converges with our email, address book, password manager, photo album and countless more services,…
A few quick bytes of recent news that didn’t get their own post on VC Cafe: Open Social, Maka-Maka and Google’s Attempt to Bite From the Facebook PieMarc Anderssen of Ning and blog.pmarca (highly recommended read) posted a great summary…
It’s silly, but what if this crazy idea worked? Save an Alien, an Israeli Facebook app hopes to create the “million dollar page” effect through an extra terrestrial plot. If 10M people adopt an alien each, the cute aliens will…
The Broadband TV niche in Israel is on fire. Following RayV’s $8M round earlier this month, Israel-based Imagine Communications announced a second round and a hot upcoming deal. Imagine develops Personalized TV technologies for video on demand (VOD) and Internet…
After almost becoming the CEO of SAP global, Shai Agassi now aims to reinvent ‘the pump’ – for battery powered all-electric cars. With a $200M investment in his pocket, Shai Agassi is planning to build a network of battery-charging stations…
Mobileye, a Top100 Innovator according to Red Herring magazine, develops vision systems to prevent imminent accidents by providing drivers with tools such as distance keeping between vehicles, dynamic cruise control and timely warnings in dangerous situations. Mobileye’s main product is…
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