Just think about it: we flip between a dozen news sources on our mobile while getting the morning coffee. We try to find that “undiscovered” travel destinations based on reviews, availability and location while simultaneously emailing and sitting on a…
It has been a good quarter for crowdsourcing start up uTest: Expanded software testing marketplace by 30% quarter-over-quarter Acquired 37 new customers, and increased testing community to 18,000 Added application profiling and discussion threads to platform Complete website redesign, adding…
My6Sense is coming out of stealth in the coming days. The Israeli start up offers an iPhone app that pushes content to the user in a signgle feed, from his chosen feed subscriptions (RSS of news, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc).…
Macabbi Tel Aviv, one of Israel’s largest footbal teams made an official announcement of its new sponsor today – a Canadian financial services company that will provide the company $500K per season. The sponsor is Paygea, a provider of proprietary…
Israel-based "How to" video site 5min.com has announced a second round of financing of $7.5 million. The round was led by Globespan Capital Partners, a new investor in the company. Spark Capital, 5min's previous investor, joined the round.
Pitango, one of Israel's largest venture capital funds with $1.3 Billion in assets under management, plans to team up with a Shenzhen Capital Group to launch a $100 to $200 million fund with a focus on Chinese start ups.
Feedback analytics start up Kampyle has raised an undisclosed round from Carmel Ventures. Founded in 2007 by Ariel Finkelstein, Ilan Steiner and Eran Sabir, Kampyle has developed a SaaS platform enabling webmasters to manage user feedback. As featured on VC…
The IVC Research Center has released its Quarterly Survey today for the first half of 2009. According to the report, 122 Israeli companies raised $279 million from both local and foreign venture investors in the second quarter of 2009. The…
How many times did you hesitate before sending a sensitive document through gmail or IM? Israeli start up Confidela, created WatchDox, a SaaS platform for organizations to send documents securely, control and track who views, edits, prints or forwards them.…
I will be in Israel next week on vacation. While I won’t be holding a Start up Roundtable this time around, I will be happy to casually meet for coffee in Tel Aviv on Sunday July 12th. I would love to hear…
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