Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

The founders of Quigo ( an enterprise search company based in Israel that was competing directly with AdSense ) tracked Mike down while doing a CEO search. Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer. Overture became intrigued by Quigo’s AdSonar technology and wanted help targeting ads for their content business.

Semantic 302

Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

The common case in israel is founding teams flying solo without a marketer until it’s imminently necessary. What best practices have you seen in Israel when it comes to community building? There is an impressive pool of marketing talent in Israel, including brilliant community managers. Is there a marketing talent crunch?

B2C 145

B2C Marketing Stealth 145

VC Cafe

MAY 3, 2012

As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY CENTER TO OPEN IN ISRAEL.

Denmark 96

Denmark Ireland Europe 96

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2022

It remains to be seen what the outcomes will be in 2022 as the exit markets are less active and the IPO window is closed, but assuming the merger gets approved, we’ve already seen Activision’s $70 billion acquisition by Microsoft and Twitter’s potential $40 billion takeover by Elon Musk.

B2C 103

B2C IPO B2B 103

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Media Temple. Social Media Tracking/Marketing. Ad Serving Technology. great web customer acquisition tutorials. analytics for social media and online. social media and email marketing. Updated Business tools for Startups.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

But while many contemporary technology approaches embrace scale horizontally, many business approaches are limited to primarily scaling vertically. Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel). Virgin Media Accelerator (London). These two concepts are not mutually exclusive. Techstars Berlin (Berlin). Techstars METRO (Berlin).

South Africa 70

South Africa Vertical Los Angeles Minneapolis 70

VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2011

As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. FITCH AFFIRMS ISRAEL AT “A” (OUTLOOK STABLE). DG FASTCHANNEL TO BUY ISRAEL’S MEDIAMIND.

Balance Sheet 90

Balance Sheet Acquisition Africa 90

VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. Investment Bank Morgan Stanley raised its growth forecast for Israel to 4.8% ValueClick Inc.

China 90

China Cofounder India 90

VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

The BUBBLE came to Israel too, with a record $4.2 While there were IPOs (notably Wix in November), most of the acquisitions were made by global technology companies with R&D Centers (and their corporate M&A teams) in Israel, including Apple, Google, EMC, AOL, Cisco, IBM and now Facebook. Bubble 2.0 $4.2

Venture Capital 155

Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation IPO 155

VC Cafe

JULY 11, 2011

The Israel Innovation Road Trip , is an effort to raise both funding and awareness. event, following 14 similar ones in Israel, Turkey and Europe. Israel Innovation Road Trip company list. You hear about them when they raise money, and then the news comes far and apart. This is the firm’s first U.S.

Artificial Inteligence 92

Artificial Inteligence Turkey Boston 92

VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Ybrant Media , an large Indian Media portfolio of companies, has acquired Israeli startup PicApp for an undisclosed amount. This is Ybrant Media’s second acquisition in Israel. Following the acquisition, Picapp’s employees will join YBrant Media. According to Crunchbase , PicApp raised $3.2

Media 102

Media Widget Angel Investor Acquisition 102

VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

T he Commercial Office at the Embassy of Israel in London and the Israel Export Institute have organized a New Media delegation , taking place on the first week of July. VC Café is privileged to support the event as the main media partner. Recently bought from AOL by Russian company (Digital Sky Technologies) for $187.5

Media 145

Media Social Network Flash 145

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Aardvark and reMail were the most recent buys and now, several sources report that theIsraeli start-up Catch Media may be next. Catch Media was founded in 2003 by two brothers, Yaacov and Boaz Ben-Yaacov. Catch Media is headquartered in LA and has its development center based in Jerusalem.

Media 88

Media Cloud Acquisition 88

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Francois Hollande, President of France, led a delegation this week of 260 senior French executives and government officials to Israel for the 2 nd annual France-Israel Innovation Day. French President Hollande, Israel’s President Peres and Prime Minister Netanyahu hold a robot snake in Tel Aviv.

France 98

France Startup Security 98

VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2010

A s every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor. ISRAEL RANKED 17TH MOST COMPETITIVE ECONOMY BY IMD. Israel was also rated first in several of the report’s sub-categories.

North America 68

North America Brazil Argentina 68

Hunter Walker

MARCH 18, 2014

Like many local businesses, the fitness and wellness industry has seen many new tools to manage backoffice/scheduling, demand generation and social media/community building. Q: How has technology played a role in customer acquisition? Q: If a startup was selling a new technology, how do you like to be pitched?

Technology 80

Technology Founder San Francisco Social Media 80

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

“At a time when we are seeing content creators monetize content on social media at new levels, it is clear that Lightricks’ platform has the ability to create a one stop shop that will be meaningful to its users.” . The capital boost is intended to be used to fund acquisitions as well as launch new products.

Venture Capital 168

Venture Capital Bootstrapping Valuation Social Media 168

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Mobile gaming company Oberon Media raised a fifth round of $16 million – some of the funds raised are from previous investors Goldman Sachs, Infinity I-China Fund and Oak Investment Partners. Founded in 2006, Anobit has several of Israel’s top high-tech entrepreneurs are behind it: chairman and CEO Prof.

Flash 94

Flash Venture Capital Acquisition 94

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Media & Marketing. Media Agencies. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Management.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

She has been covering technology news for over 15 years, most recently as a senior editor for TechCrunch. SOPA author to chair House Science, Space, and, Technology Committee. Among other things, the committee is responsible for “the application of new technologies to expand our economy and create jobs for American workers.”

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

VC Cafe

JANUARY 31, 2011

From the company’s press release : Omek Interactive, the leading provider of software for gesture recognition and full body tracking, today announced the appointments of gaming and technology industry executives Jonathan Epstein as president and Jon Grande as executive vice president, publishing. Israeli startup acquisitions.

South America 90

South America Russia Acquisition 90

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2019

Companies invest heavily in their technology at the expense of their employees. Last year I started my second year at the Rice University MBA program and decided to turn my passion into something that can truly impact the older generation who feel like they are lost in the technology shuffle, so I decided to start Tellinga.

Entrepreneur 116

Entrepreneur LLC San Francisco Mexico 116

VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

TaKaDu , winner of the Technology Pioneer Award by the World Economic Forum annual meeting is helping London keep its water clean. The company has 25 employees and has raised $10 million so far – most recently $6 million in a round led by Emerald Technology Ventures. The company has raised $26.5 – full article.

Venture Capital 87

Venture Capital Startup Denmark 87

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

The Mobile World Congress , possibly the largest International technology conference and definitely the most important mobile conference of the year is taking place in Barcelona this February 14-17. Simply fill in this form provided by the Israeli Foreign Trade Administration, Matimop and the Israel Export Institute. Amos Spacecom.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. Vivek Wadwha - Campus Entrepreneurship , November 19, 2010 Best Practices for Introduction Emails - Israel Venture Capital 2.0 , March 25, 2010 Weekend Reading - The Mogul Mom , October 1, 2010 Make informal advisors part of the team.

Silicon Valley 378

Silicon Valley Startup Term Sheet Venture Capital 378