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,…
If you build it, they will come. Israeli based Dapper, a widget creation site has announced the launch of AppMaker – a tool that converts any Dapper feed (Dapp), into a fully independent Facebook app. If you are not familiar…
Israeli based Yoomba has developed what could be the next level of VOIP communication. Yoomba says it has made calling a friend as simple as sending an email, with no special registration or phone numbers to recall. One click on…
It’s been 7 years since business peaked liked this. VCs pumped money in web 2.0 companies in the first half of 2007 – $464.2M in 101 deals worldwide. According to a recent study published by VentureOne and Ernst & Young.…
It’s been a while since I last posted, but it feels good to be back. Things on the “Left Coast” have been busy during this Indian summer: good healthy work load, business travel, vacation and a few motivating books (the…
Many entrepreneurs follow the VC Blogs for various reasons. Some want to get insights into the mind of a potential backer, others are interested in following trends or discovering new companies. BootStrapper put together a list of the top 100…
Talia Aben from Gemini funds caught my attention reading her blog -“Israeli VC on Sand hill Road“. In a recent post she listed five rules for entrepreneurs trying to reach VCs. I recommend reading the full post, but here’s the…
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