A new report by IVC Research center, ranks the most active VC funds in Israel according to their first money investments. Carmel Ventures topped the list with 11 new investments followed by Horizons Ventures. In total, 90 VC funds in Israel made first investments in Israeli startups, but only 19 funds (both Israeli and foreign) …
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Innovid, a video advertising startup, has raised $9.5 million round led by Sequoia Capital with Genesis Partners and T-Ventures (Deutsche Telecom) participating in the round. As part of the funding round, Sequoia partner Gili Raanan will join Innovid’s Board of Directors.
For the third consecutive year, Israeli financial newspaper Calcalist put together a list of the top 50 startups in Israel (in Hebrew). VC Cafe took note to bring you the full list of top 50 Israeli startups in English: PowerMat, Broadlight, Conduit, PrimeSense, Objet, Kenshoo, Imperva, Anobit, DoubleVerify, Wix, SuperDerivatives, AeroScout, Siano, Waze, TaKaDu, ExLibris, SolarEdge, Adsmarket, (Matomy), dbMotion, RADWIN, cVidya, Boxee, N—trig, Cotendo, Varonis, Kontera, Outbrain, RedBend, Mobixell, Celeno, AMIMON, Pontis, Gigya, Clarizen, Mobileye, Celtro, Altair, Amobee, WhiteSmoke, Cyber—Ark, OpTier, Wanova, ConteXtream, eXelate, Peer39, Netformx, Tradonomi (eToro), Surf, Zend, Soluto
Following Wix’s $40 million announcement yesterday – growth capital seems to be the name of the game in Israel this week. Adap.tv, the video advertising company started by Shopping.com’s founder and former CTO Amir Ashkenazi, has announced a $20 million series C
The Gifts Project is a social ecommerce platform enabling group gifting. Its CEO, Ron Gura, was a mentor at Seedcamp Tel Aviv 2011, an early-stage micro seed investment and mentoring programme. Startup Intelligence recently interviewed him for VC Cafe.
The Gifts Project, a social commerce platform, has been making quite a few headlines recently. The company raised $1 million in seed from Gemini and a few days later, European VC Index Ventures was mysteriously added to its investors page. The terms of the additional funding were not disclosed. Today, the Gifts Project announced a partnership with eBay, in which the e-commerce giant will host the Gift Project’s ‘white label’ application, which enables users to set up their own Group Gift pages on eBay
his year’s winners included a higher number of clean tech companies, Amongst the 31 companies to receive the honor is Israeli startup Takadu, creator of a SaaS product for water distribution networks through the adoption of a grid approach
The second quarter of 2010 has come and gone and despite the depleting VC and incubator capital in Israel, the quarter has brought approximately 40 deals with over $400 million invested
CloudShare, an Israeli start up previously known as IT Structures, has reported a series B of $10 million led by its existing investors Sequoia Capital and Gemini Israel Funds as well as new investor Charles River Ventures. This ‘Up Round’ brings CloudShare to a total of $16 million raised to date. CloudShare offers a Virtual …
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Both FixYa and SupportSpace have demonstrated that there is significant consumer demand for online technical support services by taking very different approaches. While FixYa provides free access to a large repository of valuable troubleshooting insights, in addition to expert services, SupportSpace connects consumers with certified experts that resolve technical problems on web-connected devices.
