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Organization Sponsors Interns to Work at Israeli Tech Companies [guest post]

The TAMID Fellowship is a selective program that funds TAMID’s most promising student leaders for an eight-week internship and business immersion experience in Israel. For Israeli companies, the TAMID Fellowship is a boon. TAMID compensates the interns directly, and companies are not required to provide a wage.

Bitesize Friday: NowForce, Cotendo, United Parents, Zerto and Entrepreneur Resources

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  http://goo.gl/UXBv [the flip side of Dapper’s acquisition by RWW] Venture Funding Shrinks Leaving Scores of ‘Walking Dead’ Firms http://goo.gl/3yRL [founding firms are down, but IPOs might be coming back] Is the Valley Falling out of Love with Options? http://t.co/xJs0Ucu [interesting article on compensation at startups] Israel: An Economy Without a …

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World Economic Forum Picks Israel’s Takadu as one of its 2011 Technology Pioneers

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

$8.6 million in B Round for Desktop Virtualization Viewfinity

Desktop virtualization start-up Viewfinity Ltd. has raised $8.6 million in a second round led by current investors Giza Venture Capital and JK&B Capital as well as new investor Longworth Venture Capital. The round brings the company to a total of $15.3 million raised to date.

WinBuyer secures partnerships with leading comparison shopping engines, raises $6.9 Million

WinBuyer, a Tel Aviv-headquartered e-commerce technology solutions provider, is on a mission to change the way online retailers think about price comparisons.

Is Giza Ventures Connected to New York Pension Fraud?

allegations that Israeli VC fund Giza Venture Capital paid a hefty finder’s fee to Hank Morris, a political advisor and close friend of former New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi.

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 content creator is wider readership and the ability to monetize their content.  The business model …

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