VC Cafe Turns Four

VC Cafe was born four years ago, in December of 2005. Back then, under goisrael.blogspot.com, my goal was ambitious but simple. VC Cafe was to be a source of positive news about Israel, beyond what one sees on CNN or BBC by providing a spotlight on early stage Israeli start ups, which often conceive brilliant ideas …

SeekingAlpha Seeks No Further: B Round Raised from DAG Ventures

Israel-based SeekingAlpha, publisher of user-generated financial commentary has raised a B round of $7 million, led by DAG Ventures and joined by previous backers Benchmark (Michael Eisenberg) and Accel.

Outbrain’s New Outloud, A Powerful Paid Recirculation Tool (CEO Interview)

Today, Outbrain officially announced its business model with the launch of Outloud, a paid product for content recirculation and link recommendations within the growing Outbrain publisher network.

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IVC Report: VC Investments in Israeli Companies Decline 50% in Q3

08 Israeli high tech companies raised a total of $303 million in Q3, according to the latest report conducted by the IVC Research Center.

Attention Israeli Entrepreneurs: TechAviv Angels Launches

Yaron Samid’s TechAviv, the most extensive Israeli start up meetup group in Israel and the US, has announced the launch of a new angel network today. TechAviv Angels is an informal group of Israel’s ‘top dogs’ media founders, that grouped together to identify, fund and mentor early stage Israeli start ups. I have to hand it …

Amdocs Venture Announces Investments in Amobee and Trivenet

Amdocs announced two investments in Israeli start ups in an event held yesterday in Sillicon Valley. The Israeli giant unveiled its Open Innovation program by disclosing its investments in Amobee Media Systems, which develops mobile advertising server solutions for telecommunications providers, as well as Trivnet, a platform for mobile-based transaction management.  The terms of the deals were …

Does Techcrunch Believe in Recycling News?

How Techcrunch posted old news and did not even bother to link to my original post, from three months back.

Exclusive: Kampyle Raises Round from Carmel Ventures

Feedback analytics start up Kampyle has raised an undisclosed round from Carmel Ventures. Founded in 2007 by Ariel Finkelstein, Ilan Steiner and Eran Sabir, Kampyle has developed a SaaS platform enabling webmasters to manage user feedback. As featured on VC Cafe, Kampyle’s flagship product, Kampyle for websites is especially popular with eCommerce sites. Apart from …

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