Israel Venture Capital News

Red Hat Advances Virtualization Leadership with Qumranet, Inc. Acquisition

September 04, 2008

Raleigh, NC – September 4, 2008 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the acquisition of Qumranet, Inc. The acquisition includes Qumranet’s virtualization solutions, including its KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) platform and SolidICE offe… Read more →

Correlix Ltd. Raises Additional $8 Million in Financing Round Led by Sequoia Capital

September 02, 2008

NEW YORK, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ — Correlix Ltd.
(http://www.correlix.com/), a leader in Latency Intelligence™ solutions
that monitor and analyze trading execution and market-data flows in real
time, today announced the closing of an $8 million Series B financing round
led by Sequoia Capita… Read more →

Amobee Media Systems Raises Additional Equity Capital

August 06, 2008

Amobee Media Systems, the world leader in advertising solutions for mobile operators, today announced that Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) and Cisco Systems have made strategic investments in the company. These market leaders join the company’s existing investors who also participated in this round —… Read more →

Storwize Secures $19 Million in New Funding Round

April 09, 2008

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 9, 2008 – Storwize Inc., the leader in primary storage data compression solutions, today announced it has successfully closed $19 million in funding from new investors, venture capital firms Bessemer Venture Partners and Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, as well as the Ser… Read more →

Provigent Ups Fourth Round to $20 Million

March 31, 2008

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 31, 2008– Provigent, a leading provider of System-on-a-Chip (SoC) solutions for the broadband wireless transmission market, announced today that it has increased the fourth round funding to $20 million.

Stata Venture Partners investment in the fourth round increased… Read more →

IT Structures Raises $5 Million in Financing Round Led by Sequoia Capital

March 31, 2008

Tel Aviv, March 31, 2008 – IT Structures the leader in utilizing virtualization to accelerate marketing and sales results, today announced the closing of $5 million Series A financing round. This round was led by Sequoia Capital, a leading venture capital firm which was joined by existing investo… Read more →

Unisfair Receives $10 Million in Series B Funding

January 28, 2008

MENLO PARK, Calif., January 28, 2008 – Unisfair, the leading provider of virtual events, today announced it has received $10 million in Series B funding led by Norwest Venture Partners and joined by existing investor Sequoia Capital. Unisfair, which includes Cisco, Cognos and IBM among its custom… Read more →

Amobee Media Systems closes investment transaction with Telefonica and announces strategic relationship for mobile advertising

November 28, 2007

San Francisco, London and Madrid – November 28th 2007 – Amobee Media Systems, the world leader in advertising solutions for mobile operators, today announced that Telefonica has made a strategic minority investment in Amobee. Telefonica joins Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Globespan and Vodafon… Read more →

Sequoia Capital Invests in Search Marketing Automation Technology - Kenshoo Ltd.

November 12, 2007

11 December, 2007 – Sequoia Capital and Kenshoo, provider of innovative Search Marketing Automated Solutions, announced a strategic collaboration upon official closing of the institutional funding round.
Kenshoo’s flagship product, KENSHOO SEARCH™, is an end-to-end SEM platform, which automates … Read more →

Sequoia Capital Invests In Israel's Silent Communications

November 11, 2007

Silent Communication, a provider of client-based mobile solutions for Call Management and Visual Voicemail, today announced that Silent Communication has raised funding from Sequoia Capital and Yair Goldfinger. The funding enables Silent Communication to bring its advanced TalkinSilent™ Mobile Su… Read more →