Angels

PLYmedia raised 6M$

ron — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:44:34 -0500

PLYmedia (platform for interactive viewing of video on the web) has just raised 6M$, in a second round, from Greylock capital, and Elron group. PLYmedia was founded in 2006, and has 25 employees.

Labpixies raised 1M$ from angel investors

ron — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:28:38 -0500

Techcrunch has a nice piece on Labpixies - he loves their widgets (and I have to admit that they look good!). They have just raised 1M$ from angel investors in Israel.

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)

SeeToo (chat-and-video), backed by Yossi Vardi is now in limited beta

ron — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:48:00 -0600

SeeToo is now in limited beta. Techcrunch reports that they raised 1M$, with Yossi Vardi leading the round. SeeToo allows users to view a video together and chat.

US-based Zitleman group to invest 20M$ in Isareli startups

ron — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:44:25 -0600

Zitleman group has allocated around 20M$ to invest in Israeli startups, cooperating with Glenrock VC. They will invest in Round-A and later stages, but only about 100K$ in each company. They have already made several investments in Israel, and say they do no limit themselves to any field or company type.

Yossi Vardi and Shlomo Nehama invests in Allofme

ron — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:34:18 -0600

Allofme will enable users to create a "life-album" from their photos, videos, text - and basically all their "digital" stuff. The album will show a "timeline" or journal with all the information.

Allofme, based in Tel-Aviv, has 8 employees, and plans to launch their beta soon. They will also start a new financing round.

Read more here (TheMarker, hebrew)

EMB Capital - a new fund to invest in internet/cellular content companies

ron — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:04:24 -0600

EMB capital is a new fund (or really an angel club) that wants to invest in content companies (internet/cellular). They will invest in 3-4 companies a year, no more than 1M$ per company.

Yossi Vardi and Shlomo Nehama invests in Linqee

ron — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:43:11 -0500

Yossi Vardi and Shlomo Nehama invests in Linqee, which will build a new web video application. Linqee was founded 9 months ago by Alon Hochberg, and has 5 employees. They say they have enough money and do not plan to raise any more.

Read more here (TheMarker, hebrew)

AfterDox - new 'angel club' will invest in internet startups

ron — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:20:48 -0500

AfterDox, a new group of 40 private investors has raised several million dollars and will invest in internet companies, IT and telecom. They want to invest several thousand dollars in each company, and to help the company raise a larger round