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Special: Top 50 Israeli Startups for 2011

VC Cafe Israeli startups top 50

For the third consecutive year, Israeli financial newspaper Calcalist put together a list of the top 50 startups in Israel (in Hebrew). VC Cafe took note to bring you the full list of top 50 Israeli startups in English: PowerMat, Broadlight, Conduit, PrimeSense, Objet, Kenshoo, Imperva, Anobit, DoubleVerify, Wix, SuperDerivatives, AeroScout, Siano, Waze, TaKaDu, ExLibris, SolarEdge, Adsmarket, (Matomy), dbMotion, RADWIN, cVidya, Boxee, N—trig, Cotendo, Varonis, Kontera, Outbrain, RedBend, Mobixell, Celeno, AMIMON, Pontis, Gigya, Clarizen, Mobileye, Celtro, Altair, Amobee, WhiteSmoke, Cyber—Ark, OpTier, Wanova, ConteXtream, eXelate, Peer39, Netformx, Tradonomi (eToro), Surf, Zend, Soluto

IVC: Investment dollars in Seed Israeli start ups down 28%

According to IVC Research, 28% of the venture capital investments were made in seed stage companies in 2008, compared to 43% in 2007. More than 30% of the vc funds in Israel made no investments in seed companies in 2008. Greylock…

Venture Capital in Russia? Da!

Tamir Fishman Ventures, Israel’s partner of DFJ,  has completed fundraising round of 2 billion Rubel, which are ecquivalent to $72 million USD. Half of the money was raised from the Russian goverment, and the majority of the remaining sum was…

Link-IT raises $5.3 Million from DFJ for Object Detection

Israeli start up Link-IT has raised $5.3 million in a round led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and its Israeli counterpart- DFJ Tamir Fishman. According to a source in the Israeli media, the investment was made based on a valuation of…

The Golden Age? Israeli Startups Experience Funding Streak (Part I)

Since I started following the Israeli market in 2005, it’s not often that I’ve seen so many Israeli startups raise money in such a short period of time. Capital raising is seen across the board in Telecommunications, Cleantech, Internet, Consumer…

Tamir Fishman withdrawls from major Russia deal

VentureBeat, one of my favorite VC Blogs, interviewed Eldad Tamir of the Israeli investment bank and VC fund Tamir Fishman. Eldad was one of the first foreign investors to announce his withdrawl from a major deal in Russia following the…