Eze Vidra

Eze Vidra is the founder of VC Cafe and the co-founder and managing partner of Remagine Ventures, a pre-seed fund investing in ambitious founders at the intersection of AI, technology, entertainment, gaming, and commerce with a spotlight on Israel. He is a former General Partner at Google Ventures (GV) in Europe, former head of Google for Entrepreneurs in Europe, and founding head of Campus London, Google's first startup hub. Eze writes on Israeli tech, venture capital, artificial intelligence, and founder strategy. He is also the founder of Techbikers, a nonprofit that brings together the startup ecosystem on cycling challenges in support of Room to Read.

Joined: November 13, 2007
Articles: 393
Comments: 4

Battery Ventures, Pursway

Battery Ventures Leads Pursway’s Series A

Israel-based Pursway (formerly known as Datanetis) announced its series A of $6 million led by Battery Ventures office in Israel. Pursway uses patent pending sentiment analysis technology on social networks, enabling clients to identify the influencers and followers for each of their products product within their customer database.

Eze Vidra
February 9, 2010
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Invest in Israel, Israel Central Bank, Israel Space Agency, JaJah, Lazard Asset Management, Oblicore, ofer hi-tech, ofer high tech, Panaya, Project Better Place, qoof, Shai Agassi, Weizmann Institute

Invest in Israel Newsletter: January 2010 Edition

BDI COFACE RAISES ISRAEL RISK RATING, ISRAEL RAISES GROWTH FORECAST TO 3.5% FOR 2010, WEIZMANN INSTITUTE RANKED #2 WORLDWIDE, SPAIN'S TELEFONICA BUYS ISRAELI VOIP COMPANY JAJAH, IT MANAGEMENT GIANT CA BUYS REMOTE SERVER SOFTWARE COMPANY OBLICORE, 4 ISRAELI START-UPS WIN RED HERRING 100 GLOBAL AWARDS, Israel Space Agency,

Eze Vidra
February 3, 2010
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888.com, angel, Angel Funding, Boxee, Eye-Fi, Microsoft Israel, sequoia, Waze

First Bitesize of 2010

Information overload! That’s the only way to explain the “January Effect” of tech and VC news since the new decade began a week ago. Here’s a few links worth clicking on: Microsoft’s research and development center in Israel is set…

Eze Vidra
January 7, 2010

amimon, Celeno Communications, CES, Jungo, Morel, music, prime sense, RCS Rampal, Siano, Spetrotec, Valens Semiconductor, Walletex

Only 11 Israeli companies exhibit at CES 2010

CES , the largest consumer electronics show in the world, is taking place in Las Vegas this week from today to January 10th. But despite the huge publicity only 11 Israeli companies have taken a booth this year

Eze Vidra
January 7, 2010
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Eze Vidra, Israel, VC Cafe

VC Cafe Turns Four

VC Cafe was born four years ago, in December of 2005. Back then, under goisrael.blogspot.com, my goal was ambitious but simple. VC Cafe was to be a source of positive news about Israel, beyond what one sees on CNN or BBC…

Eze Vidra
January 1, 2010
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5min, 6rounds, Amir Wald, Barak Hachamov, Colnect, Dany Fishel, face.com, Gil Hirsch, Israel, My6Sense, Ran Harnevo, TechAviv, Yaron Samid

5min Wins Top Spot in TechAviv’s Peer Awards

TechAviv, the members-only meetup group for Israeli start ups, has concluded its starup competition the "TechAviv Peer Awards". The top spot was awarded to Israel's 5min.com,the leading online platform for how-to, instructional and knowledge videos, which was crowned as the most promising Israeli web start up in 2009. Colnect was a close runner up.

Eze Vidra
December 30, 2009
4 Comments

giza venture capital, JK&B Capital, Longworth Venture Capital, Viewfinity

$8.6 million in B Round for Desktop Virtualization Viewfinity

Desktop virtualization start-up Viewfinity Ltd. has raised $8.6 million in a second round led by current investors Giza Venture Capital and JK&B Capital as well as new investor Longworth Venture Capital. The round brings the company to a total of $15.3 million raised to date.