Posted on March 31, 2008 by Dani Dechter
Provigent, a leading provider of System-on-a-Chip (SoC) solutions for the broadband wireless transmission market, announced today that it has increased its fourth round of financing to $20 million.
The privately-owned company, which was founded in Israel in 2000 but is now headquartered in the U.S., makes products that “enable system vendors to rapidly develop cost-effective high [...]
Filed under: Hi-Tech, Semiconductors, Telecommunications | Tagged: andrew viterbi, broadband, dan charash, pitango capital, provigent, pvg310, ray stata, sequoia, soc, stata venture partners | No Comments »
Posted on March 25, 2008 by Dani Dechter
BioLineRx, an Israeli drug development company, has announced that the first heart attack patient has emerged unscathed from a Phase 1/2 clinical trial study of its BL-1040, a breakthrough approach to supporting damaged cardiac tissue. The trial is using up to 30 patients in several sites in Germany, Belgium and Israel and is designed [...]
Filed under: Biotech, Healthcare, Medical Devices | Tagged: biolinerx, bl-1040, cardiac tissue, giza ventures, hadasit, heart attack, jonathan leor, liquid polymer, morris c. laster, pitango capital, teva | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: Hi-Tech, Media Technologies, Web 2.0 | Tagged: consumer-support, fixya, gadgets, mayfied, pitango capital, raj kapoor, rami beracha, tech support, yaniv ben-saadon | No Comments »
Posted on March 12, 2008 by Dani Dechter
Not only Microsoft is buying up Israeli start-ups. Brazilian optical network solutions giant Padtec has paid $30-40 million for Civcom, an Israeli pioneer in the development and manufacturing of cost saving optical solutions for communications, test and measurement, and military applications. The move comes on a wave of rapid expansion for Padtec as [...]
Filed under: Communications, Hi-Tech, Optical Solutions, Telecommunications | Tagged: ascend, brazil, civcom, concord, jerusalem ventures, meron raz, morris kahn, network solutions, optics, padtec, pereira, pitango capital | No Comments »
Posted on March 12, 2008 by Dani Dechter
Microsoft has announced its intentions to buy Israeli start-up Kidaro, a leading provider of desktop virtualization solutions for enterprises. Analysts estimate the price at a whopping $90-100 million. According to inside sources, the unexpected offer was set up by Opus Ventures Partner Dan Avida, former CEO and President of Decru. He was [...]
Filed under: Communications, Hi-Tech, Software | Tagged: kidaro, pitango capital, desktop virtualization, opus, dan avida, kevin brown, decru, desktop optimization, virtual pc | No Comments »
