Medibell is Looking You In The Eye

Medibell, a subsidiary of CMT Medical Technologies (Paris: CMD.PA), has begun its road show in preparation for its IPO in Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Medibell designs and manufacturers imaging systems for ophthalmology applications, such as diagnosis of glaucoma, age-related macular…

Mission Impossible? Watch Movies Inside Hi-Tech Glasses

An Israeli optics company says it has developed a miniature video projector that turns regular eyeglasses into a personal video screen. The technology, which until now has only been seen in movies such as Mission Impossible, projects a widescreen video…

Microsoft Corp has acquired Israeli start-up Secured Dimensions for a few million dollars. Source: Globes Secured Dimensions has developed a technology for the protection of applications based on Microsoft’s .NET platform. This is the latest move in Microsoft’s expansion of…

Australia’s Future VC Industry: Modelling Israel

If you look at most Sand Hill Venture firms that have an office outside the US, they will be in one of four geographies; China, Europe, India and Israel. Source: LightSpeed One of these does not look like the others……

Serendipity Technologies to presenst at AJAXWorld 2007

Serendipity Technologies, provider of secure Web 2.0 solutions for the enterprise, has been selected to present at AJAXWorld in New York. Yuval Tarsi, co-founder and VP of R&D will present “Secure Web 2.0 Solutions for the Enterprise: Beyond Blogs and…

First exit in 2007: Amdocs buying SigValue for $85 million

It’s the first exit in 2007: billing & customer-care software giant Amdocs (NYSE: DOX) is buying the Israeli real-time cellular billing and messaging applications startup SigValue Technologies for $85 million. Sources: The Marker (Hebrew), Haaretz The exit is a terrific…

Israeli start up runs out of sugar

It seems like the number of Israeli Internet startups just keeps growing, but some don’t make it. The Israeli startup Raw Sugar is one that evidently didn’t. RawSugar can mosts easily be described as a del.icio.us competitor. Its purpose was…

Gates: Israeli human capital unique

Microsoft founder Bill Gates features on a new movie to encourage investments in Israel, in which the world’s richest person testifies to the wealth of human capital found in the country. “The quality of education is the key to the…

Israel Venture Capital: High-tech M&As totaled $10.58b in 2006

Israeli High-Tech M&As valued at $10.58 billion; $693 million raised in Israeli IPOs This amounts to a third of the total figure for 2000-2005. The figure does not include Berkshire Hathaway’s acquisition of Iscar Ltd. early this year. IVC Online…

Diagnosing The World’s Biggest Killer

TopSpin Medical, an Israeli start-up, is an emerging growth company with a local Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) device for detecting heart disease.Source: Globes Online Coronary heart disease is the number one killer in the western world. According to the American…