Today, seed funding in Israel got a little boost with the launch of the first Israeli Super Angel Seed Fund (or a so-called "Micro Venture Capital Fund") with $25 million in funding, Started by Avi Domoshevizki, Sani Sanilevich, Ofer Arieli and Saeed Amidi.
A cool little project by Lukaz Kostka @ljdk tags startups on a map using the CrunchBase API and CloudMade Maps.
Have you heard of "Wine Funds"? Today you can invest in fine wines through offshore funds based on the principle is that fine wines come in limited supply and increase in price in short bursts based on scoring or trends, rather than linearly over time. As the quantity of these wines is quickly reduced, price increases.
Israeli startup Oversi has announced a series C round of $4.9 million investment round led by Carmel ventures and joined by Cisco, Smac partners and StageOne ventures. Oversi offers a multi-service platform for over-the-top (OTT) content, including Internet video, peer-to-peer (P2P) and other media applications.
PeerTV, a veteran Israeli startup company which enables Content Providers, ISPs and Operators to deliver OTT (Over-the-Top) TV services, has filed for IPO in the London AIM market today
For the fourth consecutive year, TWS is taking place in Tel Aviv today with an impressive line up of judges, including silicon valley's most prominent angel Ron Conway and his partner David Lee (which recently got media attention for 'angelgate'), Saul Klein of Index Ventures and Seedacmp and Yair Goldfinger, founder of ICQ and Dotomi and angel investor in Israeli startups. If you're reading this on Monday the 18th, tune in to the live stream of the conference at http://www.twsconf.com/
After using Quora for a few months, I've found it a very helpful source of information on anything startup related. Cut the wheat from the chaff and start learning.
Four Israeli startups in stealth: Interntial, SourceFox, Ineze and BillGuard. Check them out and help them grow.
Wibiya, the two year old on-site social toolbar provider (held by parent company Modular Patterns), has announced it is launching a developer platform and an open API which will enable third party applications on the Wibiya toolbar. It is approaching the reach of Conduit, the successful Israeli startup providing customized downloadable toolbars, which works with 250,000 publishers and 170 million users - except that it took the latter ten years to get there....
Israeli startup MySupermarket has completed a new round of investment of $7.4 million, led by Graylock and Pitango. The company has raised $22 million to date.
The amount raised was similar to $343 million raised by 104 companies in the previous quarter, and 13 percent above $303 million raised by 108 companies in the third quarter of 2009.
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