IVC's online database
Added: (Tue Mar 15 2005)
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IVC’s Online database is a comprehensive resource on Israel’s high-tech industry
The IVC-Online database includes over 3,600 Israeli high-tech companies, private equity & venture capital funds, investment companies, professional service providers, foregin investors and technological incubators.
Capital Raising
Communications
Interactive broadcasting solutions co Celltick raises $11m
The financing round, Celltick’s third, is designed to expand its global activity.
IT & Enterprise Software
Intel Capital invests in start-up Safend
Safend provides comprehensive end-point security enterprise solutions.
HyperRoll raises $5m from Lighthouse Capital Partners
HyperRoll has raised $27 million to date. Its prestigious list of investors includes Sequoia Capital, Vertex Venture Capital, Greylock, Bessemer Venture Partners, Denali Ventures, eXseed, and Eitan Wertheimer's Microdent Ventures.
Life Sciences
Dental-imaging company Cadent raises $25 million
Who doesn't love a dentist? All too many people, which may explain why dental-technology company Cadent gets so much money from investors. Maybe they're dreaming of hi-tech tooth-care.
Boston Scientific leads $20 million investment in startup VisionCare
Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) is expanding its medical-technology business into eyecare.
Private Companies
Communications
KiloLambda's Innovative Solution for Protecting Next Generation Optical Networks
KiloLambda Technologies, Ltd. announced today the availability of an innovative new product designed to passively limit optical power in systems and networks.
TeraSea Launches FronTera Family of Transponders at OFC/NFOEC 2005
Allows Zero to 200km Transmission without Dispersion Compensation.
BroadLight Unveils a New High-Performance Line of GPON, EPON and BPON Transceivers
BroadLight's New Transceiver Line Delivers High Price/Performance and Proven Interoperability in a Quality Design.
ColorChip's New SystemOnGlass Technology Enables Breakthrough in Transceiver Design
Working Prototype of Unique Diplexer Optical Transceiver to be Presented at OFC/NFOEC Conference and Exhibition.
PacketLight Introduces New Storage Extension Platform
PL-100-Opto Provides Higher Capacity and Additional Services Using DWDM/CWDM, Allowing Longer Reach and Scalability for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Applications.
IT & Enterprise Software
Pegasus Technologies Announces Integration With Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
Now laptop and desktop users can save their handwritten notes and drawings directly into Microsoft(R) Office OneNote(R) 2003 using Pegasus' breakthrough Digital Pen as an input device.
Life Sciences
Predix Pharmaceuticals Announces Initiation of Phase II Clinical Trial of Its Serotonin 1A Agonist for Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Predix Pharmaceuticals Inc., a drug discovery and development company, announced today that it initiated a Phase II tolerability study of its investigational drug PRX-00023 in patients with moderate to severe generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).
ColBar LifeScience launches new facial filler
The company has received a CE Mark for marketing natural collagen product Evolence in Europe.
Other
Partner Communications Has Launched a Personalized Song Dedication Service in Russian Based on NSC's Speech Recognition Product
Partner Communications (Nasdaq:PTNR), a leading Israeli mobile communications company and operator of the orange(TM) network in Israel, has launched a unique service that enables its subscribers to send personalized songs to friends and relatives in Russian.
Publicis Technology and Celebros Ltd. Inaugurate Their Partnership in the French Market for New Generation Search & Navigation Solutions
Publicis Technology, the eSolutions company of the Publicis Groupe and Celebros Ltd., a leading provider of search and navigation solutions for e-commerce sites, announce their partnership for the integration of the new generation search solution Qwiser(TM) Salesperson in the French market.
Genoa's ColorPeak(TM) Wins Silver Award for Most Impressive Display Technology at 2005 CES
ColorPeak(TM), Genoa Color Technologies' multi-primary color (MPC) system for television displays, has won a Silver Award from the influential industry newsletter "Private Line Report(TM) on Large Screen Display" for being one of the three most impressive technologies or products at the recent 2005 Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas.
Do-Coop Technologies Announces Breakthrough New Product that Enhances Ligation Without Separate DNA Purification Step
Introduces Neowater - Ligation Enhancer to its Expanding Product Line.
Private Equity & Venture Capital
Mizrahi expands credit to startups
United Mizrahi Bank's management recently decided to expand financing of technology companies, and will provide tens of millions of shekels in credits to startups in 2005.
“Israel is an R&D laboratory”
JVP's Erel Margalit, Israel's foremost venture capitalist, won't join the secular stampede away from Jerusalem.
Sowing the seeds of Jerusalem's hi-tech revival
Israel's leading seed stage venture capital firm, JVP Studios, employing an aggressive development strategy (taking ideas from inception to market in only 12 months) has garnered five start-ups in only 18 months of operation.
BlueRun Ventures makes first closing of $350m fund
Senior VP Yossi Hasson: We’re looking for more deals in Israel.
M&A
Kodak Completes Acquisition of OREX Radiography, Ltd.
Eastman Kodak Company today announced the completion of its acquisition of OREX Computed Radiography Ltd., a leading provider of compact, robust computed radiography systems that enable medical practitioners to acquire patient x-ray images digitally.
Agere confirms acquisition of Modem-Art
The price is $145 million for the Israeli cellphone-chip company. The deal was first reported by "Globes".
Investment Banking
Zivotofsky joins Lehman's investment banking unit
Elan Zivotofsky will serve as a senior vice president of Lehman Brothers' investment banking division in Israel.
Public Companies
The place to find companies
After 7 Israeli acquisitions, SAP now has 500 employees here, with plans for more.
Intel importing Jewish engineers
Intel Israel, which currently employs 6,000 workers, is starting a large-scale campaign to attract new staffers to help develop new products.
ECI signs $99m. deal with ABN Amro
Telecommunications solutions provider ECI Telecom has agreed to sell $99.3 million worth of long-term notes of Brazil-based Global Village Telecom (GVT) to ABN Amro Bank, the company said Monday.
Public Offerings
First kibbutz company on Nasdaq undergoing pricing tonight
Tonight is the pricing phase for the first kibbutz company on Nasdaq. Shamir Optical Industry, in which Kibbutz Shamir owns 80.5% and FIBI Holdings 9.8%, is floating 3.4 million shares in the range of $13 to $15, from which it should raise $44 million to $51 million.
Life Sciences
Technion scientists develop biological computer on chip
The biochip allows for automatic, real-time readout of computation results.
Serono execs to visit in June
After closing InterPharm, Serono plans to seek new investment opportunities in Israel to find a new growth engine.
The right way to parent orphan drugs
Genzyme Israel general manager Zeev Zelig on how a company with only a few thousand patients makes a profit, and why it set up a development center in Ireland.
Japanese seek collaboration with Israel in biotech
Israeli exports to Japan grew by 32% in 2004 to $765 million; imports grew by 44% to $1.5 billion.
General
20 Israeli Startups to appear in US Roadshow
Twenty Israeli biotechnology and medical equipment startup companies will participate in a roadshow in the US in April, the Binational Industrial Research and Development (Bird) Foundation said on Tuesday.
Bar-Ilan staffer wins new prize for research excellence
It's Dr. Yoram Louzoun's ability to "think out of the box" and to see things that others don't notice that has helped him come up with novel approaches and make important contributions in his discipline of mathematical biology and neural computing. Louzoun's academic supervisors, professors and fellow researchers describe him as an original thinker and a brilliant young scientist.
Singapore-Israel Fund R&D OKs $1.2m for 3 projects
Astronautics CA, MindCite, EZLegacy and Singaporean counterparts will collaborate.
Olmert proposes Israel-Brazil R&D fund
Minister of Industry Trade and Labor Ehud Olmert is visiting Brazil and Argentina to promote a regional free trade agreement between Israel and the Mercosur bloc.
Hebrew U. researchers develop new film colorization method
The method is faster and cheaper than methods such as those used to colorize classics films like “Casablanca.”
Israel ranked 18th for technology exploitation
Despite its reputation as a center of hi-tech development, Israel has dropped to 18th from 16th in the World Economic Forum's "Networked Readiness Index" (NRI) of the countries most successfully exploiting global information and communications technology (ICT).