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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TechAviv, the members-only meetup group for Israeli start ups, has concluded its starup competition the “TechAviv Peer Awards”. The top spot was awarded to Israel’s 5min.com,the leading online platform for how-to, instructional and knowledge videos, which was crowned as the most promising Israeli web start up in 2009. Colnect was a close runner up.
A more recent entrant is MoodBase, a Hod Hasharon-based startup which helps users discover more relevant content based not on user history or the social graph, but on sentiment.
My6Sense is coming out of stealth in the coming days. The Israeli start up offers an iPhone app that pushes content to the user in a signgle feed, from his chosen feed subscriptions (RSS of news, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc). The result is a ‘river’ of information which continually learns about what’s important to the …
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Despite the exit drought, more Israeli start ups have reported to recieve venture rounds from the last 60 days. You’ll notice the common thread: lots of private investor involvement and almost always participation of the previous investors as well. My6sense – completed a $2 million round from private investors including Eric Benhamou, Eyal Waldman, Nachman …
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I was very impressed with each of these three Israeli startups when I got the invitation to test them. Even though Boxee, My6sense and Didiom are very different from one another, I’ve had compatibility issues with all of them. In a nutshell, if you don’t have a Mac and an iPhone – you’re behind the …
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