Venture Capital

Libox (Erez Philosoph's stealth startup) raised over 1M$

ron — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:15:14 -0500

Libox, a stealth "consumer-product" startup has raised over 1M$ from Evergreen, Partam and Eilon Tirosh.

Kenshoo raises a "few million dollars" from Arts Alliance

ron — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:24:49 -0500

Kenshoo just raised a few million dollars from european VC Arts Alliance. Kenshoo developed a system that manages advertisement campaigns over several networks at the same time.

Read more here (TheMarker, hebrew)

Globes: Israeli VCs "ready for the slump" with over 2 Billion dollars

ron — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:17:01 -0500

Globes reports that the Israeli VCs are"ready for the slump", with over 2 Billion dollars ready for investments.

WebCollage raises 10M$

ron — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:29:19 -0500

WebCollage (software solution for eCommerce) raised 10M$ from Greylock VC, and existing investors Gilde, Sierra and Ceedar.

Read more here (TheMarker, hebrew)

FixYa raises 6M$

ron — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:51:18 -0500

Fixya announced a $6 million B round from existing investors Mayfield and Pitango. Techcrunch reports that the site has been growing at a respectable clip. In the U.S., comScore measured 1.5 million unique visitors in February, up 107 percent from the year before (see chart below). Worldwide, comScore estimates 3.7 million unique visitors in January (the company claims 6 million uniques).

Gigya raises 9.5M$ led by US fund MayField

ron — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:55:48 -0500

Gigya, who's into monetizing and advertisement in social media, raised 9.5M$ led by US VC MayField and other Israeli VCs.

Outbrain raises 5M$ from Gemini and Lightspeed

ron — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:15:13 -0600

Outbrain (an LGI-Lab backed company) got more support from Gemini and lightspeed - a 5M$ round A investment. Outbrain allows bloggers to add a "rating" system feature to their blogs.

Carmel Ventures finished raising 235M$ for their third fund

ron — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:46:13 -0600

Carmel ventures have finished raising 235M$ for the new fund. They will continue their previous investment focus, investing in late-stage companies, including Internet ones.

Read more here (TheMarker, hebrew)

SemantiNet raised 1.7M$

ron — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:16:50 -0600

SemantiNet (developing some search-related technology) has just raised 1.7M$ from Giza. They claim to 'bring content to the user' which is better than having the user actively search for content, and also make a personalized product. Previous investors include Jeff Pulver and Yossi Vardi.

Pudding media raised 8M$

ron — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:03:34 -0600

Pudding Media, who does advertisement for voice calls has just raised 8M$ from BRM capital and Opus capital. Pudding has an agreement with Meebo (for IM talks) and are now attempting to move into cellular.