@Ediggs Twitter Updates for 2009-03-06

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Onset Technology Raises $3 Million from Cedar Fund

  Israeli veteran  Onset Technology said it has raised $3 million in a funding round led by the Cedar Fund. The company was founded in 1997.   Onset’s mission statement is quite ambitious: To be the world’s leading provider of software solutions that…

Vertex Sees more Value in ComAbility, Adds $4 Million

Back in November of 2007, VC Cafe reported on Comability’s first round of $6 million, to provide the backbone for Broadband Internet, cellular and WiFi providers in a cheaper and more flexible way than other players in the market. Today ComAbility has announced an…

Invest in Israel Newsletter: February 2009

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. DESPITE GLOBAL RECESSION FDI TO ISRAEL NEAR RECORD HIGH IN…

10 Links I Caught on Twitter This Week

Google’s Schmidt: Twitter is poor man’s email ‘Digital Discoverability’ Among Top Trends for 2009 – Social media trends report. This is a PDF.   Twitter thoughts motion chart: http://yvoschaap.com/twitte… 10 Fortune 500 companies that started with nothing …

eBIZ.mobility gets $1 million from The Zitelman Group

eBIZ.mobility, a Tel Aviv based start up has raised $1 million from the Zitelman Group, a private investment banking firm based in Rockville, MD.  eBIZ.mobility developed a Federated Payment System, which provides secure processing of online digital payment without a credit card…

Triond Raises $1.5 from Giza Venture Capital

Giza Venture Capital has invested $1.5 million in Israel’s Triond, a web publishing service. Triond enables content creators to publish original content of any kind (images, posts, etc), for publication on partner sites on Triond’s network. The result for the…

Kenshoo Gets Up Round from Sequoia

Kenshoo –  The SEM automation company has raised what is considered to be an “up round”, an additional capital injection from its current backer Sequoia, for a much higher valuation. The size of the round was undisclosed, but sources told…

Nickels and Dimes in Israeli Venture Capital

The Israeli venture capital industry has experienced a $250 million decline in the past few months. Israeli venture capital funds have struggled to raise the target capital and the impact is likely to be felt on emerging technology companies in Israel.

RT @JasonCalacanis: What to do if your startup is about to fail

Jason Calacanis, the CEO of Mahalo, has some good advice to CEOs who are struggling to keep their start ups afloat.  Rather than keeping a blog, he sends a weekly-ish newsletter – sign up here to get his updates.  I…