Boxee TV is possibly one of the coolest Israeli start ups out there right now. Based on open source software, Boxee is trying to beef up its offering by harnessing the power of the development community through free app building. The…
Israel based Mo’Minis has reportedly secured a $1.5 million in Series A funding from BRM Capital. The company develops a platform that serves to create and distribute casual games for mobile handsets, supporting a wide range of devices. The platform…
uTest relaunched its website to put a face on its crowdsourced community of software QA testers. The new design enables to search for testers on a map interface adding active discussion and knowledge sharing boards.
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. NETANYAHU UNVEILS ECONOMIC RESCUE PLAN Plans to curb unemployment…
New on VC Cafe: @Ediggs Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-04 # New on VC Cafe: Kenshoo Moves to The Valley, Taps US Market # Israelis recover ancient legal text # VisionCare to raise $20m # RT…
If you’re Madonna or Britney Spears, your decision to move to a new city may be a news scoop. In the start up world, if you’re funded by Sequoia you get the same celebrity effect. Sarah Lacy’s latest Techcrunch post…
New on VC Cafe: @Ediggs Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-27 # New on VC Cafe: WEF Report: The Global Economic Impact of Private Equity 2009 # New on VC Cafe: Israeli VCs Make Less and Smaller First Investments…
On Tuesday (29/4) we received the sad news that Nahum Sharfman was killed with his wife Nava in a plane crash in Greece. The single engine CIRUS 22 crashed due to bad weather conditions and allegedly a pilot error. Nahum,61,…
MBA students pay attention: peHub has begun the annual Internship Rodeo with more than 60 different firms participating. To access these opportunities, you must comply with these two conditions: Access code: You should be able to obtain an access code…
TechCrunch reports that Fring, the Israeli start up developing VOIP and chat applications, has raised a C round from its current investors, who have already poured $13 million to date. Backers include: North Bridge Venture Partners, Pitango Venture Capital, Veritas Venture…
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