A cool little project by Lukaz Kostka @ljdk tags startups on a map using the CrunchBase API and CloudMade Maps.
A cool little project by Lukaz Kostka @ljdk tags startups on a map using the CrunchBase API and CloudMade Maps.
For the fourth consecutive year, TWS is taking place in Tel Aviv today with an impressive line up of judges, including silicon valley’s most prominent angel Ron Conway and his partner David Lee (which recently got media attention for ‘angelgate’), Saul Klein of Index Ventures and Seedacmp and Yair Goldfinger, founder of ICQ and Dotomi and angel investor in Israeli startups. If you’re reading this on Monday the 18th, tune in to the live stream of the conference at http://www.twsconf.com/
After using Quora for a few months, I’ve found it a very helpful source of information on anything startup related. Cut the wheat from the chaff and start learning.
Four Israeli startups in stealth: Interntial, SourceFox, Ineze and BillGuard. Check them out and help them grow.
The amount raised was similar to $343 million raised by 104 companies in the previous quarter, and 13 percent above $303 million raised by 108 companies in the third quarter of 2009.
Israeli startup fundraising seems to be picking up towards the end of Q3 with several companies raising rounds of at least $10 million each. Innovid, Tracx, eXalate, uTest and SimpliVT are featured on this bitesize report.
It’s not every day that Israel celebrates sixty years of independence, and despite of global and local economic and political shocks, Israel’s economy is stronger than ever. Here are some of the reasons that make Israel and the Silicon Wadi a strong investment destination: The Shekel is growing faster than than the dollar Israel has …
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It’s good to be a startup in Israel right now. Venture capital investments hit a seven year record, and everyone seems to be looking for early stage startups. Angels have found their place in the food chain, and it all seems to make sense. 1) The early stage investors are interested in ideas, and willing …
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