There hasn’t been such a full list of Israeli startups coming to Europe since Barcelona’s World Mobile Congress. Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. The UK is Israel’s second largest export market following the US, but Israeli startups often ‘forget Europe’ …
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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
Vote on the top Israeli startups 2010 as suggested by members of the Israeli startup industry on Quora. Simply select your three top choices and leave your email to get notified of the results.
A comprehensive list of widget building tools for the novice and the expert alike.
Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft-Yahoo and maybe a tiny bit of Google/Open Social here and there. Are you getting a bit tired reading about the same companies over and over again. Me neither, but hey, it’s good to mix up your diet a little every now and then. Below are a few recommended reading links for the …
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Israel’s Gigya, the widget platform that boosts and tracks the distribution of widgets across the social web, has announced a $9.5 million series B round led by Mayfield Fund. Benchmark Capital and First Round Capital also participated in the round after previously investing $650,000 in a single financing round in November 2006. Rumors claim that the first round …
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General winter is here in San Francisco, and I felt his impact well this week as I battled the flue in bed. Due to a short break, some of this week’s top headlines didn’t make it to the front page of VC Cafe. So, thank you for your patience and enjoy the bitesize newsbrief below. …
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One of my favorite blogs in Hebrew, thecoils, has posted a comprehensive overview of the venture capital and M&A activity of Israeli companies and funds in 2007, as well as some predictions for 2008. For those who can’t read Hebrew, I translated and summarized the main points from the post and added a few bits …
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“Israelis’ time arrives – tech making trek from the dessert to the valley” – that is the title of Adrienne Sanders’ excellent article published in San Francisco Business Times this morning. Adrienne lined up a comprehensive outlook on the Israeli entrepreneurs who made the move from Israel to Silicon Valley and the Bay Area in …
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Israeli startup Gigya, developer of social-sharing tools, was recently nomintaed as one of the hottest startups by KillerStartups.com. (In case you were curious, other names on the list included YoName, CambrianHouse, Xing and Ganges). Gigya’s latest product, Wildfire, is useful tool for both social networkers and bloggers. Wildfire enables the one-click posting of content to …
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