I found a hidden gem in Israel. A little startups that with less than 10 people and no VC funding was able to bootstrap its own ad server and 15 million daily ad impressions. The startup is AfterDownload, an eight month old advertising network based in Israel.
The Q3 2010 MoneyTree report for Israel was published yesterday with somewhat encouraging results: VC investments in Israel continue to grow and some $253 million were invested in VC-backed tech companies in the third quarter, representing a 23% increase compared to the previous quarter and a 42% compared to the same period last year which only saw $178 million invested.
Mark Suster, a 2x entrepreneur turned VC, offers a good recount of what it takes to be a CEO in "My Life as a CEO (and VC): Chief Psychologist". What do CEOs do?
Venture capitalists from around the world invested $7.8 billion in 995 deals for companies based in the U.S., Europe, Canada, Israel, Mainland China and India, according to industry tracker Dow Jones VentureSource. This is a slight decrease from $7.9 billion put into 1,025 deals during the same period last year
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 October 2010 edition after the jump. For previous editions, click here.
LiveU has announced a third round of $11 million, led by Pitango and joined by existing investors, Carmel Ventures and Canaan Partners. This brings LiveU's total investment to date to over $23 million.As a result of this round Isaac Hillel, managing partner at Pitango, will join LiveU's board.
Eight Israeli startups and one Palestinian startup decided to change that by creating their own "TLV TechTour" (dubbed TTT), where they will be hopping from campus to campus in the US to present their companies, discuss innovation and entrepreneurship and trends in technology in front of a real audience of students and faculty members (in the language of the announcement, if some investors drop by it "would be ok too")
This is a cool little deal that flew under the radar - Stergen, an Israeli startup developing technology to convert 2D TV broadcasting into 3D images, announced a $1.86 million round led by VIZRT, a Norwegian corporation.
People start companies for many different reasons: to make money, take control of their own careers, change the world and so on. Statistically, 90% of them will fail. Are serial entrepreneurs more likely to succeed?
PrimeSense, the Israeli technology company behind Microsoft Kinect's magic, has raised a $50 million round from French investment bank Lazard Group, based on a valuation of 300 million USD, reports TheMarker
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