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After surveying high-tech insiders in Israel including investors, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists “Globes” has ranked the country’s top 10 most promising startups. Previous winners of the award include Mellanox, Outbrain, Fiverr, and GetTaxi … Playbuzz, an online content publishing platform from Shaul Olmert, son of former PM Ehud Olmert, was never meant to go viral …
ElastiMed, a portfolio company of Trendlines Medical, announced this week that it raised $1 million, which includes an investment from Pix Vine Capital, a Singapore-based investment house.
RR Media, a leading provider of digital media services to the broadcast and media industries, has announced a strategic partnership with WSC Sports Technologies that combines RR Media’s global digital media services and reach with WSC’s cutting-edge automatic clipping and video highlights generation platform.
Startupbootcamp FinTech, the leading accelerator focusing on financial innovation, hosted its first Demo Day in Singapore on the 29th of July for the top 11 FinTech teams selected out of 300 applications earlier this year.
Last month, we announced that Foody, Vietnam’s Yelp, got a series B round lead by Garena. Believe it or not, the month isn’t even over yet, and it’s announcing its series C investment lead by Tiger Global Management.
Playbuzz, the world’s leading platform for online content engagement formats and social distribution, today announced the launch of a new content format – Flip Cards. Following a closed beta period in which the format was successfully tested by publishers Distractify, The Independent, Bild, Endemol Beyond USA and Terra Portal, the Flip Cards format is now available on Playbuzz.com for all publishers and content creators.
MySQUAR, Myanmar’s only social media platform in the local language, has raised $2.6 million, at a valuation of $27.8 million, through an initial public offering on London’s Aim.
Three years ago, we wrote about Foody, then still a young upstart struggling to be the Yelp of Vietnam. At the time Foody had 13,000 points of interest (mainly restaurants). By January last year, Foody hit over 45,000, and today it’s at 115,000 (comprising travel, beauty, healthcare, shopping, schools, and wedding services). So it’s rather timely that Foody is today announcing its latest series B funding along with publicly announcing its diversified business model.
Vexere, an online ticket booking platform for buses, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from CyberAgent Ventures, with Singapore-based Pix Vine Capital’s Patrick De Silva also co-investing in the deal.
Ethernity Networks Ltd. is demonstrating its new OpenFlow-enabled hardware acceleration network interface card this week at the 2015 NFV & SDN Summit in Paris. The solution is for use in network functions virtualization-based products such as virtualized customer premises equipment and evolved packet cores, for which it can accelerate performance by up to 50 times.
