Posted on April 29, 2008 by Dani Dechter
According to webware, tech-support startup Fixya will announce a partnership with Best Buy whereby “customers wanting to perform their own fixes (or trying to dig others out of trouble) can go to the Best Buy Web site and access http://geeksquad.fixya.com from the “Customer Service” tab. They can search by product, SKU, manufacturer, or product category, [...]
Filed under: Biotech, Communications, Healthcare, Medical Devices, Medicine, Other, Software, Web 2.0 | Tagged: cleveland clinic foundation, erez gavish, fixya, intercure, mazor, perytons, resperate | No Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Communications, Media Technologies, Other, Web 2.0 | Tagged: jeff pulver, jerusalem ventures, pulvermedia, ticc, von | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 13, 2008 by Dani Dechter
Startech Early Ventures is trying to connect between Israeli hi-tech and Texas investors, according to Globes. Similar to Virginia’s Gateway America (which I mentioned in an earlier post), Startech is aiming to help Texas boost trade relations with Israel and capitalize on Israel’s robust growth in the technology sector.
The VC has just hosted the ”largest-ever delegation [...]
Filed under: Cleantech, Hi-Tech, Other | Tagged: israel cleantech ventures, jonathon shapira, solarpower, startech | No Comments »
Posted on April 7, 2008 by Dani Dechter
The inflow of venture capital to Israeli startups is extremely high compared to other countries — one only has to take a look at the posts I’ve written for this blog since I’ve started it. According to Israel Venture Capital Research Center, however, a drop is expected in VC funding of new startups in 2008, [...]
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Posted on March 31, 2008 by Dani Dechter
Two Israel entrepreneurs, Barak Paz-Tal and Guy Rotberg, have officially launched their “multi-lingual job-candidate search site” Meijob.com after running in beta mode since January, 2007 — in China. Aggregating more than 900,000 job opportunities from more than 150 job websites in China, and reaching more than 2 million viewers per month, Meijob has now [...]
Filed under: Other | Tagged: meijob, recruitment, job search, barak paz-tal, guy rotberg, jason pang, recruiters | No Comments »
Posted on March 20, 2008 by Dani Dechter
Since I’ve started this blog I’ve been amazed by how many start-ups actually come out of Israel. Everyday brings news of at least two or three start-ups raising millions of dollars in financing, or exiting to a multi-national company for hundreds of millions of dollars. For each one of these, there are hundreds [...]
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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 [...]
Filed under: Communications, Media Technologies, Other, Web 2.0 | Tagged: cellotrip, instant messaging, itzhak ron, languages | No Comments »
Posted on March 17, 2008 by Dani Dechter
I had the pleasure of attending the Israel National Entrepreneurship Conference this Sunday which was held inside the Technion’s impressive computer science faculty building in Haifa. I took an early train from Tel Aviv and arrived just in time for the opening remarks by distinguised Technion President Yitzhak Apeloig. The event, which is connected through [...]
Filed under: Other | Tagged: biztec, fern riess, israel national entrepreneurship conference, udi dehaan, yitzhak apeloig, yoram yaacove, yossi vardi, zohar zisapel | 1 Comment »
Posted on March 11, 2008 by Dani Dechter
Three Israeli high school friends formed Three Innovators, Ltd. in a pursuit to quit their day jobs and develop innovative projects for themselves. They now have two which aren’t exactly related: ETF.co.il, a website and newsletter (in Hebrew) about financial indices, and OneHourTranslation, a website which allows you to translate anything fast and cheaply. [...]
Filed under: Other | Tagged: freelance, low-cost, onehourtranslation, publishers, three innovators | No Comments »
