I'm currently in Madrid, Spain, giving a keynote in La Red Innova, speaking about mobile search and its impact on ecommerce. Red Innova is a thought leadership conference held for the third year in Madrid
Bitesize Weekend - quick reads
LumaPartners, a US-based consulting firm, has created a series of infographics that chart the various vertical of the digital media industry including display advertising, mobile, commerce, search, social, and video. Dubbed LUMAscapes, each infographic provides a breakdown of the players in the vertical, by category
Online ad startup TayKey has raised $9 million in a B round led by Sequoia Capital, Softbank Capital and Crescent Point. This brings the total investment in TayKey to $11 million, since its inception in 2008.
If you visited or lived in Israel, you know that parking in Tel Aviv can be a huge problem. Too many cars and too few spots. Two Israeli entrepreneurs in the 30s, Gev Rotem and Ilan Blum, are tackling the problem with their new startup, Parkpool.
Techcrunch broke the news on the acquisition of Poland-based Bliscy.pl by Israel-based MyHeritage.com. Bliscy will help MH increase reach as the acquisition brings MyHeritage family network to 56 million registered users and approximately 762 million profiles, 18 million family trees and 116 million photos.
miLAB is a research and prototyping lab that explores the future of media, technology, and human-computer interaction. Launched in the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC), possibly the top Israeli college (and my alma mater), the lab's ambitious vision is to empower students to create and invent, by bridging media and technology as well as academia and industry.
June 2011 kicks off with the completion of HTIA, Israel's high tech association conference, where more than 90 (!) startups have exhibited. May has been a busy month for Israeli startups with great exposure in Techrunch disrupt in New York, funding rounds and debate about the future of the Israeli venture capital funds. Below are the headlines.
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. See the May 2011 edition after the jump. For previous editions, click here.
Zeev Holtzman, founding partner of Giza Venture Capital and founding member of the Israel Venture Association (IVA), cautioned that “Israel’s venture capital and startup industry is heading for collapse. The industry, which is the economy’s growth engine, is liable to be irreversibly damaged", in a recent interview to the Venture Capital Journal
NVIDIA, the graphics chip giant, has committed a $2.5 million strategic B Round in Israeli startup Rocketick. Rocketick has created GPU simulation accelerators, a technology that enables chip manufacturers cut their overall time to market of new chip designs by up to 30% and is advertised to reduce 50% of testing cost
Gil Rozenberg - co-founder and CEO of Ineze.com, an early-stage technology startup based in Israel, shares his lessons learned on starting a tech startup for first time entrepreneurs. In spite the fact that we've already made some nice achievements, and that the future looks promising, I know that our biggest challenges are still ahead.
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