Category giza venture capital

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Facebook Expands Credits Offers to Europe Via SupersonicAds - a huge deal for the Israeli startup, perhaps thanks to its UK office? AT&T set up new R&D and incubation center in Israel in collaboration with Amdocs - welcome AT&T Foundry. More headlines on this VC Cafe Bitesize Friday

Zeev Holtzman: Israeli VC is on the verge of collapse [but wait, there’s more]

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

Weekend Reads: from Innovation to Recession

How Yahoo’s Latest Acquisition Stole & Broke My Heart   [the flip side of Dapper’s acquisition by RWW] Venture Funding Shrinks Leaving Scores of ‘Walking Dead’ Firms  [founding firms are down, but IPOs might be coming back] Is the Valley Falling…

Israeli VC Funds Raised $793 Million in 2008

The capital available for investment now reaches $1 Billion, of which $400 million is intended for first investments in high-tech companies and the remainder reserved for follow-on investments. Forecasts for 2009 are pretty grim - IVC estimates only $300 million to be raised this year

Triond Raises $1.5 from Giza Venture Capital

Giza Venture Capital has invested $1.5 million in Israel’s Triond, a web publishing service. Triond enables content creators to publish original content of any kind (images, posts, etc), for publication on partner sites on Triond’s network. The result for the…