The California Israel Chamber of Commerce (CICC) is launching the third annual IsraelWebTour from April 20-23, 2009 in the Silicon Valley. The focus this year is on growth companies, who have the potential to significantly expand their presence in the US. The ten chosen start up companies will be flown to Silicon Valley to meet …
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Markets plummeted this week, evaporating millions of dollars in value for well established public companies. But what does it mean for startups? Here’s what the VCs have to say: Ron Conway, Sequoia (Rip Good times ppt), Benchmark and Israel’s Danny Cohen (Gemini), Walden and Michael Eisenberg. Joongel, the TC50 Demopit presenter (previously covered on VC …
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SemantiNet, a semantic search technology startup based in Israel, raised a round of $1.7 million led by Giza Venture Capital. Israeli angel and internet guru Yossi Vardi is listed among Semantinet’s previous investors along with Sir Ronald Cohen (founder of Apax Partners), Robert Imershein, Moudi Ben-Shachand and Jeff Pulver. There’s not much known about Semantinet’s technology. A blog post reports that the company development is …
