Tweet TechAviv, a global organization that brings together Israeli hi-tech founders and investors, held its final event for 2010 in Herzliyya last night. The event began with Michael Eisenberg of Benchmark Capital discussing his Hummus Manifesto – the problems facing Israeli success in the Internet industry and some solutions. Following the presentation, he and six […]
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Tweet During the past week, AT&T announced that it is opening an innovation center in Israel. The center, along with two in the United States, will be focused on helping mobile app developers present and develop their ideas and get them out to market fast. Israeli solar energy companies continue to thrive, including Tigo Energy […]
Tweet The Jerusalem Business Networking Forum had its monthly meetup earlier this week. Titled “Making Great Start-ups”, the discussion was led by Teddy Nehmad of C-Capital who gave tips on creating a good business that’s attractive to investors and also discussed issues the venture capital industry is currently dealing with. In the clip above Nehmad […]
Tweet During the week of March 7, 2010, SolarEdge was named a Top 10 energy innovator by Fast Company. Digital advertising company Eyeblaster filed for a $115 million IPO and Apple rejected an app for the iPhone that detects radiation from the phone. For these stories and more, see this week’s 10 Israel-related headlines below. […]
Tweet During the week of February 1, 2009, SemantiNet released a Beta version of its FireFox add-on, Headup to the public and Shai Agassi talked electric cars at TED. Commtouch partnered with MailChannels and promising Israeli startups presented their technologies at the TechAviv meetup in Herziliyya. For these stories and more, check below for the […]
Tweet During the week of January 18, 2009, business was back to normal for better and for worse. Announcements were made that Israel is planning the largest desal plant and Varonis and SAManage received funding. On the other end, the Israel Venture Capital Research Center released VC funding numbers for the fourth quarter of 2008 […]
Tweet Though 2008 was clearly a tough year for companies and venture capital funds in Israel and worldwide, several announcements this week have given a better picture of the extent of its impact on Israel’s Silicon Wadi. Globes reported this past week that Aviv Venture Capital raised $52 million for its Aviv II Fund last […]
Tweet The 12th annual Israel Journey took place earlier today in Tel Aviv. During the conference, which is organized by Ernst & Young Israel and Israeli business newspaper, Globes, Globes announced its top 10 Israeli companies for 2008-2009 as follows: YCD Multimedia Ltd. Tulip Medical Ltd. Dune Networks, Ltd. Aternity Inc. Payoneer, Inc. N-Trig, Ltd. […]
Tweet During the week of October 26, 2008, news continued out of Israel of the first lay-offs resulting from the turning economy. While companies such as AmDocs and Delver announced cut people, Check Point asserted that though its customers were being affected by the economy, the information security company wasn’t at the moment impacted enough […]
