Catching up with some of the recent deals in the industry. Below is a short recap of what’s been getting money these days: 1. Octavian Inc, a leading provider of Separately Managed Account (SMA) solutions in the Wealth and Investment…
Eilon Agam, former VP of content at Israeli telecom giant Pele-Phone, gathered a group of private investors to start a new PE fund, EMB Capital Ltd. EMB is planning to be a private equity fund that focuses on internet and…
If you’re familiar with the latest James Bond movies, this product will sound as if it came out of the MI6 laboratories. As the mobile phone converges with our email, address book, password manager, photo album and countless more services,…
A few quick bytes of recent news that didn’t get their own post on VC Cafe: Open Social, Maka-Maka and Google’s Attempt to Bite From the Facebook PieMarc Anderssen of Ning and blog.pmarca (highly recommended read) posted a great summary…
It’s silly, but what if this crazy idea worked? Save an Alien, an Israeli Facebook app hopes to create the “million dollar page” effect through an extra terrestrial plot. If 10M people adopt an alien each, the cute aliens will…
This week was full of tech news that deserve some VC Cafe attention. Here’s a short recap on the headlines that didn’t get their own post:Payoneer raises $3M from Greylock partners Payoneer markets manages and services prepaid MasterCard cards together…
“Every time you say web 3.0 a start up dies”. Israeli stealth startup Wix.com is part of the revolution. Wix, currently in private beta, enables users to create flash-based websites without writing a single line of code or being a…
We’re in conference season here in San Francisco and the Web 2.0 Summit that ended last week was one of the big ones. Thursday concluded with a Launch Pad in which six companies presented their startup to a VC panel.…
Sagi Rubin is an associate at Gemini Israel Funds. I came across Sagi’s blog, “The Grass is Greener on Our Side”, and asked him to answer a few questions for VC Cafe. I hope you find the Israeli VC perspective…
In all poker games, if more than one player remains after the last betting round, remaining players expose and compare their hands to determine the winner or winners. This is called the showdown. Oberon Media, a leading casual gaming solution…
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