Taking Off for the Holidays…
After a long and emotionally exhausting quarter, I bet you are all looking for a little break. So do we. Wishing everyone happy holidays and a fruitful new year. See you in 2009! Please send story tips and post…
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Konolive is IM for the working people
Online collaboration is a crowded field packed with applications covering different angles of this very wide and not always clear need, to improve collaboration between people working together on the same stuff. Konolive is one more application struggling to penetrate…
VC Industry Bailout: UK Goverment to Launch Emergency £1bn Fund
A few weeks ago, I attended the BVCA Tech Spin Out 2008. In several panels, UK-based VCs and government representatives, including the Minister of Science and Innovation Lord Drayson, discussed the dire state that the venture capital industry in the…
One bug less: uTest Raised $5 Million for SaaS QA
Israeli start up uTest has announced a $5 million investment in series B led by new investors Longworth Venture Partners and Egan-Managed Capital (owned by co-founder of EMC Corp) as well as previous investors Mesco Ltd. and Massachusetts Technology Development…
Persay Voice Recognition Biomteritcs Grabs 2.4 NIS from Teuza
TheMarker reports that voice recognition startup PerSay has raised one million NIS from the Israeli government fund Teuza. The investment was made as part of a larger round of 2.4 million NIS (about $600,000) that includes current shareholders in Persay…
Bitesize Thursday: 10 Links on SEO, Design, Games, Policts and Fun
10 links that are worth your click: 1) SEO: Google published a 22-page long pdf guide on SEO for beginners. There’s nothing new there if you are a pro, but since Google are the ones who control SEO on the…
Playce provides Game Infrastructure As a Service: VC Cafe Interviews Yoram Avidan
Newsflash: the worse the economic situation, the more people play video games. It’s cheaper to stay at home and play Super Mario than to go out for a movie these days. According to a recent article by the New York…
Top 20 Entrepreneurial Startup Resources (Europe)
In times like this, a startup should leverage any help it can get. The Active Startup Club at London Business School published a list of resources for London based startups and entrepreneurs. VC Cafe is happy to share these with…
Event: The London Business School Media Summit
London Business School’s student-run Media Club is prepping for the London Media Summit, to be held on 24th November. This year LBS has an interesting lineup of some of London’s top Media community members. The Summit is entitled “The Great…
Contrust and Kaltura in Le Web 08 Finals
For the fifth year, Loïc Le Meur’s Paris-based Internet conference Le Web 08 will choose the most promising online ventures. Last year, two Israeli firms (Ply Media and GHost) snatched two out of the top spots. This year, among the…