VC Cafe

JUNE 4, 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. Great for them, good for Israel.

San Francisco 90

San Francisco New Jersey Private Equity 90

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 16, 2016

The founder & CEO —  Assaf Glazer  — is a Phd in computer vision from Technion in Israel and furthered his work with a postdoctorate from Cornell Tech in New York, where he hatched Nanit. The CTO, Tor Ivry , heads engineering out of Israel.

Jordan 150

Jordan CTO Hire Cofounder 150

VC Cafe

MARCH 28, 2011

For example, Dr Yossi Vardi , Israel’s most famous angel investor, provided the original seed funding in 2009. In January of this year it closed a $1million+ funding round led by Gemini Israel Funds which also included Index Ventures. And the company’s client base includes such heavyweight clients as eBay.

Widget 97

Widget eCommerce Early Stage 97

The Next Web

OCTOBER 25, 2013

“[At HotelTonight], we built in lots of opportunities for people to interact, from a ping pong table and vintage video game room to lots of comfortable, casual conversation areas scattered throughout the office,” Simon says. Perhaps your company is not at a level to own acres of office space just yet.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Design Product Startup 167

Genuine VC

JANUARY 29, 2008

Before joining as President & COO, Israel Ganot spent six years at eBay, where he was instrumental in the company’s international expansion. With any new venture investment, the caliber of the team is paramount, and Second Rotation is no exception. The CEO Rousseau Aurelien is a serial entrepreneur and former eBay PowerSeller.

Technical Cofounder 101

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Angel Investor 101

Genuine VC

JANUARY 29, 2008

Before joining as President & COO, Israel Ganot spent six years at eBay, where he was instrumental in the company’s international expansion. With any new venture investment, the caliber of the team is paramount, and Second Rotation is no exception. The CEO Rousseau Aurelien is a serial entrepreneur and former eBay PowerSeller.

Technical Cofounder 100

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Angel Investor 100

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

The company is based in Palo Alto and is headed-up by Meir Friedlander, President & CEO, and Ari Birger, Founder & CTO. Tags: Eyecon Israel iPhone. Eyecon provides an innovative software solution to a problem that has arisen due to the growth of networked devices in the modern home.

Media 74

Media Software Review Software 74

VC Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2011

Wanova was founded by Dr Issy Ben-Shaul (CTO) and Ilan Kessler. is based in San Jose, CA and has offices in Netanya, Israel. Together with Israeli startup Gizmox (renamed Visual Web GUi), Wanova is considered a ‘hot’ cloud company coming out of Israel.

San Jose 99

San Jose Cloud Startup 99

VC Cafe

MAY 22, 2011

The LinkedIn IPO this week may have opened the gates for an Israeli market thirsty for exits, but in the meanwhile, VC funding in Israel continues with business as usual. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Boston, MA with R&D offices in Israel. Caminaro develops storage solutions in SSD drives.

Metadata 92

Metadata Cofounder IPO 92

BeyondVC

APRIL 3, 2006

I just got back from a week in Israel having spent some time in Jerusalem for an Answers board meeting and then making my way to the Ohalo Resort on the Sea of Galilee for Kinnernet 2006. At Kinnernet, I had the privilege to spend time with some great people from Israel, Europe, and the US.

Technical Cofounder 60

Technical Cofounder CTO Hire Fractional CTO 60

VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

The company is headquartered in London, UK, with satellite offices in the US and Israel. Supersonicads was founded in 2008 by Gil Shoham (CEO) and Arik Czerniak (COO) and Nissim (Romi) Romano (CTO). Cellcom , the leading mobile provider in Israel, enters the financial services market with new “mobile wallet&# product.

Media 109

Media Stealth Venture Capital 109

VC Cafe

MARCH 29, 2011

Following Wix’s $40 million announcement yesterday – growth capital seems to be the name of the game in Israel this week. To date, Adap.tv has raised $43 million including this round.

Advertising 96

Advertising Video Acquisition 96

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Saul Klein, partner at Index, has been living in Israel for the past year or so, looking for the Israeli companies that have a potential to exit for $1 Bilion. Outbrain’s solid team, led by serial entrepreneur Yaron Galai (sold Quigo to AOL for approximately $340 million) and Ori Lahav, who is becoming a thought leader CTO in Israel.

Startup 99

Startup Acquisition Partner 99

Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 1, 2009

CEOs or CFOs of startups in the US, China, India, Israel, or the UK in the technology or life science industry should consider taking the survey. Head of Technology/CTO 1.19%. 2008 CompStudy Report in Technology. Participants who complete the survey will receive the full results at no cost. . President/COO 2.58%.

Stock Options 31

Stock Options CTO Hire Equity 31

David Teten

MARCH 3, 2016

Marcia Dawood , Managing Director, The Golden Seeds Angel Investors, Mr. Gilad Novik , CTO, Horizons Ventures, Mr. Harry Rubin , Partner, Ropes and Gray, Mr. Matthew Kibble , Founder, Australy International (SFO), Mr. Michael Englander , Englander Family Office, Mr. Yaki Yanay , President and COO, Pluristem Therapeutics Inc and Co-Chairman of Israel’s (..)

DC 60

DC Miami Cofounder 60

VC Cafe

MARCH 9, 2010

Founded by Oren Netzer (CEO) and Alex Liverant (CTO) in 2008, DoubleVerify is headquartered in New York and has it engineering offices in Tel Aviv, Israel. Tags: Bloomberg Capital DoubleVerify First Round Capital Genacast Ventures Institutional Venture Partners CEO IVP CTO. The company most recently raised a $3.5

Management 74

Management New York Campaign 74

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

We got Ophir [CTO Ofir Herzas ], a technical guy and started implementing. Our beta process was in Israel and we’ve approached VCs only in Israel. VC Cafe: Many Israeli startups find themselves starting in Israel and later relocating. Financial reasons (israel has really expensive taxes).

Cloud 134

Cloud South America Bootstrapping 134

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

Co-founder and CTO, Sharethrough. Co-founder and CTO, Saygent. Founder, House of Mikko. prettylittleceo Scaling Lean Thinking in a Fast-growing Startup Rob Fan. rfan622 How Listening to Customers Helped Us Raise $700K in Seed Funding Mariya Genzel. mashagenzel How $40 Saved Us Nine Months and $2MM Paul Howe. Founder, BlueSpark.

Czech Republic 114

Czech Republic Costa Rica Brazil Romania 114

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Dror Nahumi, partner and NVP and the fund’s rep in Israel, will join SundaySky’s board of directors. Founded in 2006 by Yaniv Axen (CTO) and Shmulik Weller (currently serves as CEO),SundaySky is headquartered in New York with a research and development office based in Tel Aviv.

Video 74

Video Conversion Ratio PR 74

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

AVG acquired DroidSecurity to accelerate our delivery of sophisticated mobile security and provide users around the world with the reliable and secure technology they need to confidently mitigate the risks associated with using mobile devices.”. It has five employees in Israel.

Security 84

Security Cofounder Mobile 84

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

AVG acquired DroidSecurity to accelerate our delivery of sophisticated mobile security and provide users around the world with the reliable and secure technology they need to confidently mitigate the risks associated with using mobile devices.”. It has five employees in Israel.

Security 84

Security Cofounder Mobile 84

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

AVG acquired DroidSecurity to accelerate our delivery of sophisticated mobile security and provide users around the world with the reliable and secure technology they need to confidently mitigate the risks associated with using mobile devices.”. It has five employees in Israel.

Security 84

Security Cofounder Mobile 84

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

The company was co-founded by CEO Amir Ashkenazi – a Tel Aviv University graduate and founder/former CTO of Shopping.com, Dan Klein (who serves as ‘chief scientist’) and VP Product Ted Grenager. million from Spark Capital , Redpoint Ventures , Gemini Israel Funds , Bessemer and Spark Capital.

Advertising 99

Advertising Video Early Stage 99

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Colin Hayhurst , CTO co-founder then CEO of start-up b. Having said that, if we must generalize the start-up with the best chances of succeeding are likely to have a CEO and a CTO. Andy Le Tong 1 vote by Colin Hayhurst CEO (fundraising and biz dev), CTO (programmer) and COO (GM and finances). The former focussed on biz.

Technical Review 51

Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 51

Altgate

APRIL 26, 2009

This year the survey covers five countries (China, India, Israel, UK and US) in two industries (technology and life sciences). I’ve mentioned this survey several times before, but this time I bring news of the 2009 survey opening to participants. The report is then able to give ranges of compensation based on these attributes.

Term Sheet 60

Term Sheet Venture Capital Startup 60

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

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. First Principles. Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0

Silicon Valley 378

Silicon Valley Startup Term Sheet Venture Capital 378