Four Takeaways from WATEC 2011 Cleanvest Summit
I was fortunate to attend the party over at WATEC Israel 2011’s Cleanvest Summit. This is a pre-WATEC summit where startups got a chance to present their ideas to investors and hopefully have someone catch their bait.
Terence Kawaja Presents “Clash of the Titans” in Social Media
Terence Kawaja is one of the most influential (and funny) social media advisors around. His opinion in social media makes waves across the investment world, influencing heavily where money will flow.
E&Y Journey: Interview with High-Tech Legend Dick Kramlich, by Yoram Tietz
The following is an interview held on stage at the main event of E&Y’s Journey event. Dick Kramlich…
E&Y Journey 2011, The Great Debate: Go Public or Stay Private
Last week Ernst & Young held their annual conference Journey 2011 at the Hilton hotel in sunny Tel…
Qwilt Raises $24M to Reduce Data Load of Video by Up to 80%
Qwilt is on the hot on the heels of something big in high-data video delivery. Founders Alon Maor from Cisco and Dan Sahar from Crescendo Networks, plan to reduce the overall load of online for landline networks, mobile carriers, content providers, and consumers.
IM Creator – High Class Websites for the Masses, with 126,000 Websites Created and Counting.
IM Creator is gaining speed on its Israeli competitor Wix.com to become a leading WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) web design website. IM Creator offers high end web design for designers who need to rapidly prototype for their clients, small business owners who haven’t a clue of how to make a website, or for anyone who finds Adobe Dreamweaver too complicated.
Waze Raises $30M to Expand into China
Waze, the social GPS and traffic app, has raised a fresh $30 million from Li Ka-shing's Horizon Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers' iFund and Digital Growth Fund. This brings their total funding to over $57 million. Waze is headquartered in Israel but has another main office in Palo Alto.
Binpress – A Marketplace to Find Affordable and Trustworthy Code for Web Development
Binpress, the latest project by the Israeli startup incubator Lionite is making waves in the coding community with their source code marketplace. The purpose of binpress is to save coders time coding by finding existing solutions to time consuming problems. Their focus is on code for web applications in all sorts of languages, frameworks, and platforms.
BillGuard – Fends Off VCs in $10M Series B Round
BillGuard has raised $10 Million in their Series B round of financing. Investors include bigtime funds like Khosla Ventures, Peter Thiel's Founder's Fund, Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors; previous investors Bessemer Venture Partners and IA Ventures also contributed to this round
Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups
Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company. In this post I break down an article by TheMarker.co.il about Moshe Lichtman, and why he is one of few men or women capable of leading an Israeli startup to global billions.