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Carmel Ventures
Viola Ventures ( he, ויולה ונצ'רס), (formerly Carmel Ventures ( he, כרמל ונצ'רס)), established in 2000, is an Israeli venture capital fund with over $1.3 billion under management. History Viola Ventures is focused on early stage companies in the fields of enterprise infrastructure and applications, frontier and deep technologies (automotive, IOT, AR/VR, drones), software, software as a service, financial technology, Internet, media, communications, semiconductors, and consumer electronics. Viola Ventures is a member of the Viola Group, a private equity investment group with over $2.8B under management, focused on technology-based investment opportunities in Israel. Shlomo Dovrat was a founder. Companies *Adapteva *Cellwize *Clarizen *Cloudyn *codefresh *CrediFi *CoolaData *Deep *Dynamic Yield * *EverCompliant * Guesty *IronSource *Kampyle (software) *LiveU *Lightricks *LuckyFish *MarketInvoice *MultiPhy *MyThings *NICE Actimize *nsknox *Optimal Plus *Origami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter. In the case of a closed corporation, there are a relatively small number of shareholders or company members. Related terms are closely-held corporation, unquoted company, and unlisted company. Though less visible than their public company, publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the world's economy. In 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for ($1.8 trillion) in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In 2005, using a substantially smaller pool size (22.7%) for comparison, the 339 companies on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MyThings
myThings is a site retargeting company that provides advertisers with display ads (banners), for visitors who have left their sites without completing a purchase. These users are served ads as they continue surfing the web. Behavioral retargeting is a form of online targeted advertising, in which online advertising is delivered to consumers based on their previous actions, such as pages browsed, products added to basket, on a company's website or app. History Founded in 2005, myThings was originally created to " elppeople keep track of their belongings —when and where they were purchased, for how much, and the services provided with them— in order to replace or sell an item, or in the event of fire or theft." This is their current mission but it has closed for beta testing. For a period of time, it operated in the online and mobile display advertising and affiliate marketing industry. myThings has offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Israel. In 2010, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NICE Systems
NICE Ltd. () is an Israel-based company, specializing in contact center softwareNICE CXone, telephone voice recording, data security, surveillance, and Robotic Process Automation as well as systems that analyze recorded data. The company serves various industries, such as financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, outsourcers, retail, media, travel, service providers, and utilities. The primary listing of the company's shares is on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange; where it is part of the TA-35 Index. Barak Eilam became CEO in April 2014, replacing Zeevi Bregman. Eilam previously headed the company's Americas division. As of November, 2020 the company had ~6,800 employees. History NICE was founded in 1986 as Neptune Intelligence Computer Engineering (NICE) by 7 Israeli former army colleagues. The company initially focused on developing technology for security and defense applications, but soon refocused their efforts on civilian applications, mainly for contact center, fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actimize
NICE Ltd. () is an Israel-based company, specializing in contact center softwareNICE CXone, telephone voice recording, data security, surveillance, and Robotic Process Automation as well as systems that analyze recorded data. The company serves various industries, such as financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, outsourcers, retail, media, travel, service providers, and utilities. The primary listing of the company's shares is on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange; where it is part of the TA-35 Index. Barak Eilam became CEO in April 2014, replacing Zeevi Bregman. Eilam previously headed the company's Americas division. As of November, 2020 the company had ~6,800 employees. History NICE was founded in 1986 as Neptune Intelligence Computer Engineering (NICE) by 7 Israeli former army colleagues. The company initially focused on developing technology for security and defense applications, but soon refocused their efforts on civilian applications, mainly for contact center, fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Followap
Followap was the leading provider and pioneer of mobile Messenger - Instant Messaging and Presence solutions to the mobile industry. It was founded in 1999 and managed by Dan Volach and Ben Volach when mobile Internet was just born. By the time it was acquired, it had over 20 mobile operators many of them tier-ones, serving a combined user base of over 200 million subscribers. The company's headquarters were in London, UK. Followap’s products enabled operators to establish advanced, interoperable mobile Messenger and presence-enhanced services, which were key for next-generation networks. Followap held numerous patents and was actively contributing to industry standardization efforts in forums including OMA, XMPP, IETF, 3GPP and the GSM Association. Followap cooperated with device manufacturers including Samsung, Nokia and LG. Followap has launched the first commercial mobile Messenger service in the year 2000 in partnership with Eircell, Ireland's largest mobile network. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tapingo
Tapingo is a mobile commerce application that offers advance ordering for pickup and food delivery services for college campuses. The company was bought by Grubhub in September 2018 for $150 million. Tapingo is differentiated from other on-demand delivery/logistics companies, such as Waiter.com, Postmates, or DoorDash, by focusing its efforts on serving the college market. Through Tapingo, users can browse menus, place orders, pay for the meal and schedule the pickup or have it delivered. On certain campuses, students are able to use their university's meal dollars to pay for food. In spring of 2012, Tapingo first launched its services on five campuses (Santa Clara University, Loyola Marymount University, Biola University, the University of Maine, and California Lutheran University), and has since expanded to more than 200 college campuses across the U.S. and Canada, serving 100 markets. To date, Tapingo has received venture funding from Carmel Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SimilarWeb
SimilarWeb Ltd. is an Israeli web analytics company specializing in web traffic and performance. Headquartered in Tel Aviv, the company has 12 offices worldwide. Similarweb went public on the New York Stock Exchange in May 2021. History The company was founded in 2007 by Or Offer in Tel Aviv, Israel. By 2009, Similarweb won the first Israeli SeedCamp, attracting the attention of international media and investors. The company raised its Series A round of $1.1 million with the investment being led by Yossi Vardi, and Docor International Management. SimilarSites, a browser extension to help users find sites similar to those they are visiting, was launched later that year. On September 24, 2013, the company closed a Series B round led by David Alliance, Moshe Lichtman with the participation of existing investor Docor International Management. On February 24, 2014, South Africa media giant Naspers invested $18 million into Similarweb and leading their Series C round. Within a mont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samanage
Samanage, an enterprise service-desk and IT asset-management provider, has its headquarters in Cary, North Carolina. The company's flagship product, Samanage, operates as a multi-tenant, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) system for IT and enterprise service management. As of November 2018, Samanage had more than 1,800 customers in 50+ countries. History Founded in 2007 by Doron Gordon, Samanage first delivered IT asset management software in 2010 after a three-year development and testing period. This was followed by service desk functionality in 2011. Product The ITIL-ready service desk includes a self-service portal, service catalog, knowledge base, and SLA management tool. The Samanage REST API allows for integration with hundreds of applications. Growth In May 2015, Samanage raised $16 million in new funding. The series B funding was led by Marker LLC and Vintage Investment Partners, with participation from existing shareholders Carmel Ventures, Gemini Israel Ventures, and Silic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redis Labs
Redis Ltd. (originally Redis Labs, Garantia Data) is a private computer software company headquartered in Mountain View, California. Redis is the sponsor of the open-source in-memory NoSQL database of the same name and the provider of Redis Enterprise software, cloud services, and tools for global companies. The company’s research and development center is based in Tel Aviv and it has additional offices in London, Austin, and Bengaluru. History Redis Ltd was founded under the name Garantia Data in 2011 by Ofer Bengal, previously the founder and CEO of RiT Technologies, and Yiftach Shoolman, previously the founder and president of Crescendo Networks, acquired by F5 Networks.Matt, Aslett (February 14, 2013),Garantia Data goes GA with Redis and memcached cloud services451research.com Retrieved January 2, 2014. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playbuzz
EX.CO is a Disney-backed content experience platform powering billions of personalized interactions around the web. The company's self-serve, personalization technology is used by brands, publishers, and small and medium-sized businesses to easily modify their websites with interactive, digital content and video experiences that cater to the end user.EX.CO (as Playbuzz) had the most shared content on Facebook in January 2015, with an estimated 9 million shares in one month. History EX.CO was originally founded as Playbuzz in 2012 by Shaul Olmert and Tom Pachys. Pachys is a graduate of IDC and also the cofounder of Whimado. Playbuzz originally raised $3 million in a Series A funding round from Carmel Ventures. The company was listed by '' Inc.'' as one of the "15 Israeli Startups Getting Hot at the Turn of 2015", and also voted one of Europe's Hottest Startups the same year by ''Wired''. In September 2017, the company announced it had raised an additional $35 million in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |