As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. See the April 2011 edition after the jump.
VC Cafe asked European and Israeli VCs for their wish list from entrepreneurs, or in other words, what should entrepreneurs be doing more or less of, to maximize their chances of success.
Yet another Israeli startup exit today, with the announcement on the acquisition of Picscout, provider of image copyright protection software, by Getty Images for ab undisclosed sum. Picscout was founded in 2003 by Eyal Gura and Offir Gutelzon and has raised approximately $1 million since inception.
10 things VCs can do to differentiate themselves and provide more value to potential investments - based on feedback from dozens of entrepreneurs. So what makes one VC fund be better perceived than others?
VC Cafe asked entrepreneurs to tell us what type of help or support they wish they could get from the venture capital investors. What started originally as how can VCs differentiate themselves to stand out, quickly became an Entrepreneur's wish list from its VCs.
Ybrant Media, an large Indian Media portfolio of companies, has acquired Israeli startup PicApp for an undisclosed amount. This is Ybrant Media's second acquisition in Israel. The company has previously bought Advertising startup Oridian in 2007.
Ineze (“Here it is”-in Hebrew), is an Internet search-engine, which aims to reduce the amount of time people spend looking for products, by yielding fine-tuned results based on user needs. As part of a series of interviews with Seedcamp winners for VC Cafe, Startup Intelligence caught up with co-founder, Gil Rosenberg (CEO), to find out more.
As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. See the March 2011 edition after the jump. Check the archive for previous editions.
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Following Wix's $40 million announcement yesterday - growth capital seems to be the name of the game in Israel this week. Adap.tv, the video advertising company started by Shopping.com's founder and former CTO Amir Ashkenazi, has announced a $20 million series C
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