This week was full of tech news that deserve some VC Cafe attention. Here’s a short recap on the headlines that didn’t get their own post:Payoneer raises $3M from Greylock partners Payoneer markets manages and services prepaid MasterCard cards together…
Earlier this month, Green Tech Media posted a great update byMeir Ukeles of Israel Cleantech Ventures on the growing popularity of Israeli Green Tech companies. I summarized the main points from this report, but I recommend reading the full article.…
Yet another Israeli exit this week. SmartShopper, a browser based comparison shopping engine was acquired by WA based Zango for an estimated sum of ~$9M according to alarm:clock and Techcrunch. A problematic buyer* Zango has raised $40M from Spectrum Equity…
“Every time you say web 3.0 a start up dies”. Israeli stealth startup Wix.com is part of the revolution. Wix, currently in private beta, enables users to create flash-based websites without writing a single line of code or being a…
We’re in conference season here in San Francisco and the Web 2.0 Summit that ended last week was one of the big ones. Thursday concluded with a Launch Pad in which six companies presented their startup to a VC panel.…
Sagi Rubin is an associate at Gemini Israel Funds. I came across Sagi’s blog, “The Grass is Greener on Our Side”, and asked him to answer a few questions for VC Cafe. I hope you find the Israeli VC perspective…
Philanthropy is not reserved for the mega rich. If you are asking the question ‘what can I do to help fight poverty?‘ one of the answers is at the tip of your keyboard. Did you know that a mere $75…
NBC, BBC, ABC… and maybe soon RayV TV as well. Israeli RayV raised a second round of $8M to develop live 24 hour broadcasts of quality programming for the PC and TV in what they call a “Virtual TV Network”.…
In all poker games, if more than one player remains after the last betting round, remaining players expose and compare their hands to determine the winner or winners. This is called the showdown. Oberon Media, a leading casual gaming solution…
Israeli based Shvoong Homework brings ‘basecamp‘ style tools, to kids in school. SH is a social network for students that aims to keep students organized, by adding an alternative to messy notebooks. Using Shvoong Homework, students can share homework online,…
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