Israel Delivers: TechnoSpin, Gizmox, Endogun, Applicure

Posted on April 27, 2008 by Dani Dechter

Today Israel’s innovators made all kinds of headlines from cleantech to medical devices to software security.
Let’s start with TechnoSpin. The four year old startup has raised $8 million from US VC 21 Ventures. They develop and produce rotors for small wind turbines which, it claims, are cheaper to produce and more easily assembled than competitor’s [...]

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TuneWiki Lyric Service Raises Capital

Posted on April 27, 2008 by Dani Dechter

TuneWiki, an Israeli startup founded in 2007 by two former airforce pilots and serial entrepreneurs, Amnon Sarig and Rani Cohen, recently launched a servce which allows you to listen to your music on an iPhone/iTouch and PC while scrolling the lyrics of the song in real-time.
According to TechCrunch, “The service, which was launched in December [...]

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A Blow for Israeli Startups? Jeff Pulver Quits PulverMedia

Posted on April 26, 2008 by Dani Dechter

Jeff Pulver announced in his blog that he’s resigning as director of PulverMedia. Here’s a rough translation of Guy Grimland’s article in the Marker:
A Blow for Israeli Startups? Jeff Pulver Announces His Resignation from PulverMedia
Jeff Pulver, one of the biggest name investors in Israeli startups and a well-known figure amongst Israeli entrepreneurs, announced at the [...]

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Tveez, MediaBoost and AdYouNet Score $$$

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Dani Dechter

Online advertising and marketing startups are thriving in Israel and raising large amounts from VCs in the process.  Here are three that have made headlines:
Tveez Marketing Intelligence is a point-of-purchase marketing company founded in 2004 that supplies consumer-oriented companies with proactive sales and marketing management technology, enabling them to increase sales and deliver superior customer [...]

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Orange Launches NewACT’s Mobile Data Service

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Dani Dechter

Partner Communications Company, which operates the Orange cellphone network in Israel, has launched NewACT’s mSync-based suite of services, branding it ‘Orange Forever’, according to the press release.
The service allows subscribers to synchronize their contacts, calendar, pictures, videos and messages between their cellphone and the Orange website. Subscribers are then able to edit, manage and archive their data on the [...]

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Arts Alliance Invests in Kenshoo

Posted on April 7, 2008 by Dani Dechter

Ramat Gan-Based start-up Kenshoo has developed Search Engine Marketing (SEM) technology which allows automation of some of the tedious tasks involved in building online marketing campaigns. After receiving initial funding from Sequoia Capital in 2007, it has now received an additional injection of investment from Arts Alliance, a venture capital firm investing primarily in [...]

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Post Copyrighted Pics for Free with PicApp

Posted on March 22, 2008 by Dani Dechter

Usually bloggers find images for their blogs on Google images, but these pictures are often low-quality and come in limited variety. But PicScout, the Israeli company behind online copyrighted image tracking technology ImageTracker, has now unvieled a new website called PicApp which allows any user to use copyrighted images for free.
How does this work? [...]

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CelloTrip Seeks Funding in First Round

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Dani Dechter

Founded in 2006, Tel Aviv-based CelloTrip uses technology stored in most cellphones to translate text messages into different languages. Simply text the message to the CelloTrip headquarters and receive a message seconds later with the translated text. Like the guys over at onehourtranslation, it seems that some Israeli techpreneurs see translation services as the next [...]

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Fixya Raises $6M from Pitango

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Dani Dechter

Israeli-based FixYa.com has raised $6 million in second-round financing from Pitango Venture Capital and Mayfield Fund, both of whom also invested in the first round of financing. Founded in 2005 by Yaniv Ben-Saadon, a seasoned entrepreneur of numerous consumer Internet ventures, FixYa gets more than 6 million viewers per month.
FixYa provides free tech support and [...]

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Follow-Up: Eyeblaster Launches IPO

Posted on March 11, 2008 by Dani Dechter

Eyeblaster officially filed its Nasdaq IPO today hoping to raise enough cash to viably compete with online ad giants Google and Microsoft. Both of those companies have made clear their goals of competing fiercely to dominate the internet marketing field; Google recently bought DoubleClick for $3.2 billion and Microsoft bought Atlas Media for $6 [...]

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