Venture Capital

KaChing has just finished a new round of financing (led by DAG ventures), raising $7.5 million. KaChing allows you to manage a stock portfolio in the US, and share it with other users. KaChing has recruited a number of leading Geniuses and users can track those as well.

Via The Marker (hebrew)

The Marker reports that Greylock partners just raised $575 Million. This is good news as Graylock will most likely will continue to invest in Israeli startups (one of their 3 offices is in Herzelia...).

Virtual Tweens has raised 1M$, led by Gemini partners and private investors. Virtal Tweens runs an educational virtual world for kids, called Ekoloko.

Via TheMarker (Hebrew)

Contigo (previously WeFi) raised 10M$ in their second round, from Pitango and Gemini. WeFi is a Wi-Fi social network service. They say they recently reached 30M$ registered users.

Via TheMarker (hebrew)

5Min, the Videopedia site, raised 7.5M$ from several VCs, led by Globespan capital. 5Min says they have over 100,000 videos, watched by over 200M users a month. They also have 'significant' revenue from ads.

Via Globes (hebrew)

According to Pc.co.il, Kampyle raised money (we do not know how much) from Carmel VC. Good job, guys!

Outbrain (previously backed by LGiLabs) has raised 12M$ from several companies and private angels.

It seems like these guys are on the right track. good luck!

Via Globes (hebrew)

It's great to see Israeli web companies with good news in these days. SundaySky raised 8M$ from Carmel Ventures and Globspan capital. SundaySky makes automated video content solutions.

Via Calcalist (hebrew)

Taboola just raised 4.5M$ in their second round, led by Evergreen. Taboola analyzes videos, and then recommends related videos to the users.

Via Globes (hebrew)

EyeView, who's into making videos to improve conversions in sites, just raised money from LGILab and Gigi Levi (from 888.com).

Read more here (TheMarker, hebrew)