Posted on May 1, 2008 by Dani Dechter
WorkLight Inc., a startup that provides web 2.0-style access to a wide variety of enterprise applications and databases, today announced that it has closed a series B round of funding totaling $12 million led by Pitango Venture Capital, Israel’s largest VC. Founded in 2006 by CEO Shahar Kaminitz and CTO Yuval Tarsi, the company was [...]
Filed under: Communications, Web 2.0 | Tagged: genesis partners, worklight, yuval tarsi, shahar kaminitz, pitango, shlomo kramer, index ventures | No Comments »
Posted on May 1, 2008 by Dani Dechter
Webware reports on Sightix, an Israeli startup developing a social network search engine now in beta that takes the identity of the searcher and their preferences into account when performing the search. According to the sight, “Sightix is providing a unique search service specifically to Social Networking Sites (SNS) which filter search results through [...]
Filed under: Web 2.0 | Tagged: ari gottesmann, shin 1, sightix | No Comments »
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 28, 2008 by Dani Dechter
So you live in a three-story brick building somewhere in Brooklyn and you wanna let you’re friends in Tokyo know exactly where you live. Why not email them a Google Map with your face plastered on the roof of the building itself?
Or you’re a business, let’s say a bar, and you want to provide directions [...]
Filed under: Web 2.0 | Tagged: roofarena | 2 Comments »
Posted on April 27, 2008 by Dani Dechter
Alefo is a new Israeli startup launched yesterday that wants to replace services such as iGoogle and Netvibes as your personal aggregator. The site essentially allows you to copy your favorite widgets, RSS feeds, and even what it calls “site shots” or pieces of other websites, and paste them onto an ultimate personal homepage.
According [...]
Filed under: Hi-Tech, Web 2.0 | Tagged: aggregator, alefo, alon carmel | 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 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 [...]
Filed under: Marketing Technologies, Media Technologies, Web 2.0 | Tagged: adbooster, adyounet, alon matas, benchmark, giza ventures, mediaboost, netservice, Teuza, tveez, tveezMI, xenia, yair goldfinger | No Comments »
Posted on April 14, 2008 by Dani Dechter
Human Monitoring Ltd. is a Tel Aviv-based developer of video and image processing solutions for PC and embedded platforms that uses innovative algorithms and superior DSP engineering capabilities to produce high quality, low cost video products.
The six year old startup has recently teamed up with Kulabyte, a [...]
Filed under: Communications, Hi-Tech, Web 2.0 | Tagged: human monitoring, image processing, kulabyte, matisse h.264, nitzan rabinowitz, video optimization | No Comments »
Posted on April 13, 2008 by Dani Dechter
Some startups are best kept secret. Like Ctrue, little is know about Libox. It was founded last year by Erez Pilosof, a serial entrepreneur who worked at Walla!, and has now received $1 million in seed-stage funding from Evergreen Venture Partners and a couple other private investors. IVC says Libox “is developing an innovative Internet platform which is [...]
Filed under: Hi-Tech, Web 2.0 | Tagged: evergreen venture, libox, pilosof, viralgurus | No Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Marketing Technologies, Media Technologies, Web 2.0 | Tagged: yoav izhar-prato, thomas hoegh, arts alliance, kenshoo, kenshoo search, sequoia capital, seo, sem | No Comments »
