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. For previous editions, click here.
The latest IVC report shows that Israeli VC funds were able to raise only $229 million in 2009, a staggering 72% less than $803 million raised in 2008 and the third lowest amount raised per annum in the last decade.
In the newly published report "Social CRM: The New Rules of Relationship Management", Jeremiah Owyang and the Altimeter Group advocate tha companies should take an organized approach using enterprise software that connects business units to the social web
For AppleTV users, there hasn't been an easy way to get Boxee's Beta loaded since Boxee released it publicly at CES this year. Now users teamed up to get the software media center back on the popular gadget.
Currensee, a social network for Foreign Exchange (Forex) traders, announced a series B of $8 million led by North Bridge Venture Partners and new investor, Egan Managed Capital. The company has raised $12 million to date
Motorola Buys BitBand, Greenroad Gets $10 million from Al Gore and Sir Richard Branson to make roads safer, NTT Docomo wants TuneWiki to power Karaoke on Japan's Mobiles
The Gifts Project takes the concept of social shopping and applies it specifically to group gifting. Via a Facebook application, the service allows users to identify gifts that they would like to give/receive to/from friends for a particular occasion (e.g. birthday, anniversary), and then allows users to select up to 20 friends to contribute to the gift purchase.
Entrepreneurship is like riding a bicycle. You are going to fall and get hurt before you learn to do it right. Having recently attended an event on common mistakes made by entrepreneurs, I thought you would benefit from learning some of the lessons from people who got it wrong the first time.
Last year, Eric Schmidt has promised to buy a start up a month as Google re-kindles its M&A activities. Aardvark and reMail were the most recent buys and now, several sources report that theIsraeli start-up Catch Media might be next.
Like this catchy song, the Internet is full of innovative sites products put up there by entrepreneurs looking to get a million users, downloads or clicks. In fact, according to domaintools.com, approximately 125,000 domains are registered on a daily basis
Terra Venture Partners, a $25 million fund made the most first investments in 2009 (6 deals) followed by Carmel, Giza, JVP, Magma, Pitango, Sequoia and TriVentures (another small fund with $25 million under management), who all made 5 first time investments.
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