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…
Shopping websites are extremely sensitive to deserted shopping carts. In some cases, 60-70% of their users would add items to their cart but suddenly close the window – leaving the site owner with little information about their reasons for leaving…
Neebula Systems, developer of management tools for virtual computer environments, has raised a first round of $5 million for from Genesis Partners and Pitango Venture Capital.
Toda!cell (www.todacell.com), an Israeli ad optimization platform, has raised an A round of $1 million led by Afterdox (see previous coverage on VC Cafe) the Fore Group and several other angels. The company had previously raised an undisclosed seed round, when…
We told you about Boxee’s app dev challenge a few weeks ago, where 40 apps were developed with great innovation. Yesterday the results have been unveiled in San Francisco but the big winner was… Boxee! The Israeli media center start…
Real-Time Bugs? uTest, the world's largest QA marketplace, announced the results of its "Twitter Apps Bug Battle", a week long contest for 600 of its 17,000 crowdsourced QA professionals
