Schools out at our CA home turf, Stanford U., so our friends at Bank Leumi USA have stepped up to host and feed us this month in Palo Alto. Nearly 100 TechAviv CA members; Silicon Valley-based Israeli hi-tech startup founders and investors and invited Israeli executives from Google, Yahoo, Ebay, Cisco etc. are gathering tonight to see and discuss demos from Fixya, Superfish and kaChing. Here’s a quick blurb about each:
With over 15 million visitors and 1 million products in its database FixYa has become the go-to-place to find and share relevant, up-to-date troubleshooting data about products you buy. Founder & CEO Yaniv Bensadon will demo the site and discuss their expanded business services offering to manufacturers and retail businesses. Ultimately FixYa reduces support costs for manufacturers and retailers while empowering average Joe consumer to maintain their products post-purchase. Classic win-win-win. Follow @FixYa. Continued …
Calling all TechAviv startups looking to raise up to $1.5M. Tevel.org, an NYC-based group of zionist angel investors, is looking to fund the next great early stage Israeli web & mobile startups. Our members are invited to submit an application to present at the upcoming Tevel Angel Club event on July 28th in NYC. Only two web/mobile startups will be selected to present in front of over 60 power Angels.
As part of our affiliation, the application and presentation fees, normally $350, have been waived exclusively for TechAviv startups. Your only expense will be travel and accomodations. If you’re interested in presenting, email yael@tevel.org and let her know you’re a TechAviv member.
Disclosure: I’m an executive committee member of the Tevel.org Angel Group and along with fellow comittee member and TechAviv NY member Yaron Galai, will screen your application.
We’re back in Israel this week for our June TechAviv Founders Club Meetup with a great round of demos by Kenshoo, Colnect and Snapily. Over 120 TechAviv founders and investors are expected so we’ve moved to a bigger room at the IDC Herzliya. What’s so exciting about these award winning startups? See a quick blurb about each below. If you’re not currently on the RSVP list please join us for the live video broadcast and chat powered by TechAviv members LiveU and attracTV.
UPDATE: Video and photos below.
Click on the white dots in the timeline above to jump ahead to the demos. Continued …
We’ve got a special event tonight in New York that has become an annual tradition. We’re hosting IDC Herzliya’s 2009 Zell Entrepreneurship Program grad students for an American Idol style competition to crown this year’s top startup. The student teams are coming from Israel to present their startups to 200 TechAviv NY members followed by group Q&A and live SMS voting. We’ll update the bottom of this post with the results. This event will be held at the beautiful Engelman Recital Hall thanks to our hosts Hillel at Baruch College.
Presenting Startups: (Web sites in stealth mode)
Wisebo – Browser plugin that displays your Facebook and Twitter friends opinions on movies and other products you see while surfing the web.
Funkkit – Web site that lets anyone design, buy and sell sneaker stickers for almost any shoe. Think Zazzle for sneaker stickers.
LockTell – Patent-pending screw-bolt automatically signals when loose. Saves millions in plane, train, automobile and housing maintenance.
GameSpeak – Enables PC gamers to text and voice chat using their existing IM accounts (e.g. Skype) while playing games in full-screen mode. Continued …
Happy Birthday Guys! Hopefully, next year you will graduate to eating some more solid foods.
MoMoTLV is the official Israeli chapter of Mobile Monday (MoMo). As Israel is a Wadi and home to many nomadic tribes, it is only natural for this chapter to be huge. Check them out on Facebook too.
Dror Cedar and Daniel Tal have been a fixure at monthly TechAviv events since presenting Joongel at the May 2008 TechAviv NY meetup as Zell Entreprenuership Program graduates from the IDC Herzliya. Since then the duo went on battle it out in the TechCruch50 demo pit where they connected with famed serial investor Dr. Yossi [...]
UPDATE: We’re having issues with the archived version of the live broadcast so in the meantime, enjoy this short post-event clip from @EzraButler and @YaronSamid.
Ever wonder how Facebook and Twitter apps go viral seemingly overnight? Wondering how its done and if there’s any money to be made from it? Tonight at 6:30PM Israel time at [...]
Our friends at the IVA 2009 Annual High-Tech Conference have reserved discounted tickets for TechAviv Founders Club members in Israel. The conference is being held at the Avenue Convention Center in Airport City, Lod on May 19, 2009. This is one of Israel’s leading industry events and provides excellent exposure and networking opportunities for startups. [...]
Stanford University is the stage for three of Silicon Valley’s most promising Israeli web and mobile startups tonight as @Confidela, @Pageonce and @Dapper demo their goods in front of 80 TechAviv CA members. Here’s a short blurb about each:
Confidela is a “Document Control as a Service” company. The well designed service enables you to securely [...]
I am impressed by PLYmedia. I usually try to write about younger, newer, hipper, sexier companies coming unto the scene, and discover new players in the game, but sometimes the old guard still has one or two tricks up their sleeve.
There are three integral parts of any startup: technology, product, and monetization. Israeli companies are usually [...]
With over 15 million visitors and 1 million products in its database FixYa has become the go-to-place to find and share relevant, up-to-date troubleshooting data about products you buy. Founder & CEO Yaniv Bensadon will demo the site and discuss their expanded business services offering to manufacturers and retail businesses. Ultimately FixYa reduces support costs for manufacturers and retailers while empowering average Joe consumer to maintain their products post-purchase. Classic win-win-win. Follow @FixYa. Continued …
