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,…
I recently had the pleasure to “e-meet” Yaron Galai, Co-Founder and CEO of Outbrain, the company behind the voting widget in the bottom of this post. Yaron was kind enough to answer 5 questions for VC Cafe. Without further ado,…
Dynasec Ltd, a spin off subsidiary of TACT Computers has the answer (for them).Israel based Dynasec has just raised a $1M funding round based on a valuation of $6.7 million.While the company size is tiny, investors include: Deutsche Bank, Merrill…
Sports fan portal Sportingo has raised a $3.2 million round from Ingenious Media of London. This is confirmed by Sportingo’s latest blog post. The company started in Israel in August of ’06, with the goal of letting fans of a…
Guy Kawaski posted an insightful post comparing Redfin’s financial valuation numbers to reality during two years of operation, courtesy of CEO Glenn Kelman. I was surprised to see how accurately the model predicted some of the costs associated to operations,…
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