VC Cafe Exclusive: Red Herring Global in Seattle, WA

Would you like to meet with the CEOs of the Top 100 Private Companies in the world and the institutional investors who cover them? I was invited to the Red Herring Global conference in Seattle, Washington this week (Dec 3-…

VC Cafe Exclusive Interview with Yossi Maaravi – Founder & CEO of Sutree.com

Earlier this week I had the chance to interview Joseph (Yossi) Maaravi, the founder and CEO of Sutree.com, a subsidiary of E-learning Knowledge Solutions Inc. Sutree is a great resource for content discovery: it aggregates thousands of free how-to videos…

Bitesize: A Low Calorie News Dose

Israel's HealOr raises $8M, Sand Hill Road vs. Hamenofim Street in Israel, itelman Group to invest $20M in Israeli startups, interview with the founders of Pitango, Jerusalem Global Ventures to raise a new $200M fund, InSightec Ltd raised $30 million, Israel's credit rating to "A", Advasense raised $6M from CIDC, Medingo raises $27M, Mobile Web - so close yet so far...

Read It On VC Cafe First: Six Israeli Startup News That You Probably Missed This Week

It’s earnings season and it’s hard to keep up with all that’s been going on with Israeli companies this week. Want to catch up with the latest news? Below is a bite-size summary of the latest VC and start up…

Spread The Word: The Israel Web Tour Returns To California

Back by popular demand – The IsraelWebTour (IWT) has begun taking applications, so before we continue – If you are an Israeli entrepreneur with a startup in any stage, The tour is the ultimate platform for visibility, exposure and fast…

Comability Raises $6M To Develop A Back Office Management System

ComAbility Ltd has announced a $6 million round raised by Vertex Venture Capital and PE fund Stata Venture Partners. What is Comability? Comability developed a subscriber management system for Next Generation Networks (NGN). According to its website, ComAbility’s software platform…

Yedda Means Knowledge (in Hebrew), And Knowledge Means Cash (for Yedda)

AOL completed another acquisition of an Israeli start up. It started in 1998, when ICQ was sold for $406M, continued a week ago with the Quigo M&A for $340M, and it is now the turn of Israel-based Yedda, a semantic…

Daylight Savings: XJet first round, Octavian second round, Petrobras Shopping, Jordan Valley Semiconductors and Q3 Summary

Catching up with some of the recent deals in the industry. Below is a short recap of what’s been getting money these days: 1. Octavian Inc, a leading provider of Separately Managed Account (SMA) solutions in the Wealth and Investment…

Quigo Brings Home the Bacon, 5min for $5M, TransChip Makes an Exit, Refresh 07

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826) 1. AOL buys Quigo for $340M. Yaron Galai and Oded Itzhak (featured on VC Cafe in the…