I recently had the pleasure to “e-meet” Yaron Galai, Co-Founder and CEO of Outbrain, the company behind the voting widget in the bottom of this post. Yaron was kind enough to answer 5 questions for VC Cafe. Without further ado,…
Dynasec Ltd, a spin off subsidiary of TACT Computers has the answer (for them).Israel based Dynasec has just raised a $1M funding round based on a valuation of $6.7 million.While the company size is tiny, investors include: Deutsche Bank, Merrill…
Sports fan portal Sportingo has raised a $3.2 million round from Ingenious Media of London. This is confirmed by Sportingo’s latest blog post. The company started in Israel in August of ’06, with the goal of letting fans of a…
Israeli based Yoomba has developed what could be the next level of VOIP communication. Yoomba says it has made calling a friend as simple as sending an email, with no special registration or phone numbers to recall. One click on…
It’s been 7 years since business peaked liked this. VCs pumped money in web 2.0 companies in the first half of 2007 – $464.2M in 101 deals worldwide. According to a recent study published by VentureOne and Ernst & Young.…
Last Month, Red Herring and the Israel Venture Association co-sponsored a competition in Israel, limited to early stage companies with revenues of up to $10 million in 2006 supported by venture funds associated with the IVA. Three Israeli startups received…
The funny video below was posted on 5min.com, the Israeli life videopedia that aggregates thousands of ‘how to’ videos, and will likely be on every Israeli Venture Capital blog very soon as a ‘warning’ sign. Techcrunch also thought it was worthy…
Source: Paidcontent.org Globes Online reports that Quigo, the NYC and Israel based online contextual ad technology provider, is preparing for a Nasdaq IPO in early 2008. Quigo has raised $30 million from Institutional Venture Partners, at a company value of…
KnockaTV , an Israeli startup founded by former Mirabilis ICQ employees, is developing a product that will connect the Internet and TV in a “Do it Yourself” fashion. KnocaTV was formerly known as ISeeU and is led by co-founder and…
Intel Capital, Intel’s investment group, invested an undisclosed sum in Ceedo Technologies, a privately held software company. The Israel-based company said it would use the investment to: ‘further establish its position as a leader in personal working environment software for…
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