Thoughts on TechAviv and Outbrain’s recent $12 million B round

February 12, 2009 by Lisa Damast
Filed under: Advertising, Industry pulse, Israeli Websites, Mobile Web, VC, Video, Web2.0 

techaviv_logoAfter watching some of the livestream of the TechAviv founder-investor’s meetup in Herziliyya last month and posting  about it, I had the opportunity to attend the monthly meetup last Thursday and listen in person to Israeli startups, SundaySky, FlyScreen and HYPick present their technologies. 

After SundaySky co-founder Yaniv Axen spoke about the company’s impressive dynamic video production technology, Gilad de Vries of Carmel Ventures, which recently led SundaySky’s $8 million A round, talked about what he looks for when considering funding a company. It can be assumed that de Vries and his colleagues applied these same things when Carmel Ventures agreed to lead news and blog recommendation engine, Outbrain’s $12 million B round that was announced this week.  

Here is a video of de Vries’ presentation at TechAviv last week.

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One Response to “Thoughts on TechAviv and Outbrain’s recent $12 million B round”

  1. More thoughts on TechAviv: VC and Angel funding alternatives : Israel Innovation 2.0 on February 19th, 2009 4:09 PM

    [...] startups there were early stage and pre-seed, I have been thinking a lot about the discussions on getting funded that took place there and earlier that day at Eze Vidra’s VC Cafe breakfast and in [...]

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