Israel’s Gigya raises $9.5M to become leader in widget monetization

Israel’s Gigya, the widget platform that boosts and tracks the distribution of widgets across the social web, has announced a $9.5 million series B round led by Mayfield Fund. Benchmark Capital and First Round Capital also participated in the round after previously investing $650,000 in a single financing round in November 2006. Rumors claim that the first round …

Combine the Collective Intelligence – Five Questions to OutBrain’s CEO

I recently had the pleasure to “e-meet” Yaron Galai, Co-Founder and CEO of Outbrain, the company behind the voting widget in the bottom of this post. Yaron was kind enough to answer 5 questions for VC Cafe. Without further ado, see the scoop below. Question: In simple words, What is Outbrain? Yaron: Outbrain is a …

Boost Virality of Website Content – Introducing "Wildfire"

Israeli startup Gigya, developer of social-sharing tools, was recently nomintaed as one of the hottest startups by KillerStartups.com. (In case you were curious, other names on the list included YoName, CambrianHouse, Xing and Ganges). Gigya’s latest product, Wildfire, is useful tool for both social networkers and bloggers. Wildfire enables the one-click posting of content to …

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