SmartCamp: The Movie
IBM to Send Telco Envoy to South America
70% Of Israeli VC Executives Predict Foreign Investment
SiSense Raises $4 Million from Genesis and Opus
Viola Group to Invest $17 Million in AdsMarket
Panoramic Power Will Represent Israel in IBM’s SmartPlanet Competition
Carmel Ventures Invests in Snaptu
SmartCamp Semi-Finalists Announced
Google to Hold DevFest for Chrome Enthusiasts
We would like to thank all those who assited in bringing SmartCamp to life: the 70 competitors, the dozens of mentors, the panel of judges, the People & Computers group and, of course, IBM’s GTU.
Here is the short film documenting the event, created by Yaron Yarkoni. Enjoy.
Five Israeli Telecom software companies and start-ups (Mobixell, FlashNetworks, cVidya, Trivent and Verint) will present in the coming couple of weeks their products to large telecom companies in Brazil and Argentina and in front of representatives of IBM South America.
The presentations and meeting have been organized by IBM Israel’s Global Techonlogy Unit (GTU), which assits Israeli start-ups and promotes their business. Among the companies the start-ups will be meeting are CableVision, Telecom Personal, Telefonia Claro from Argentina and GVT, Net, Sky, Vivo Nextel, Embartel, Oi and Tim from Brazil.
The Israeli Telco envoy is part of IBM’s GTU, which works in Israel to assit Israeli companies in opening a wide variety of channels for global cooperation, expand IBM’s business framework by incorporating Israli technologies with IBM infrastructures.
Translated by Itai Rosenbaum
Finding by a survey conducted by the global accounting and advising firm Deloitte show that the venture capital industry is eying the developing country in the east, while the developed countries no longer present an attractive destination for high-tech investment. The company polled a variety of venture capital firms and the survey was conducted in [...]
Netanya-based Start-Up SiSense, which develops Business Intellignece soultions, has completed a first fund-raising round totalling at $4 million from Genesis Partners, Opus Capital and private investor Eli Farkash.
SiSense was founded by Elad Israeli, Eldad Farkash (who acts as CTO and VP of Research and Development) and three others. With the completion of the fund-raising round, [...]
The Viola Group will invest $17 million in the start-up AdsMarket from Tel Aviv, a company which specializes in web-based advertising. Out of the investment, $12 million will be used to purchase company stock and $5 million will be invested in the company. With the investment’s completion, the company’s net worth will total $80 million, [...]
The start-up Panoramic Power, which develops an innovative solution for monitoring electricity usage, was chosen to represent Israel in the finals of IBM’s SmartCamp. The descision was announce in a festive ceremony held last Thursday at the IBM House in Petach Tikva. The event, produced by People & Computers, saw five companies compete for the [...]
