Fund raising

Jinni raises 1M$ from Startup Factory

ron — Thu, 01 May 2008 07:23:26 -0500

Jinni raised their first seed investment - 1M$ from Startup Factory. Jinni develops a personalized recommendation engine for movies and TV shows, and also allows users to "consume" the content via the TV or the computer (not sure what that means really).

Read more here (TheMarker, hebrew)

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.

Read more here (TheMarker, hebrew)

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)

Actus-Imago raised 1M$

ron — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:34:35 -0500

Actus-Imago raised 1M$ from private investors using Rimon Capital investment bank. Actus-Imago is into Internet digital media systems, focusing on search for video content.

Read more here (TheMarker, hebrew)

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).

Eyeblaster files for 115M$ NASDAQ IPO

ron — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:07:25 -0500

Online advertising firm Eyeblaster has registered for a $115 million initial public offering on the NASDAQ.

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.

WPP digital invests 3M$ in nuconomy

ron — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:38:23 -0600

WPP digital has invested 3M$ in Nuconomy which develops tool to measure users behavior in web sites. Yossi Vardi has invested 300K$ in a previous round.