Our Own Little Silicon Valley
Since I'm located in Israel and involved in Internet industry, it is unavoidable for me to feel that this was quite a productive year for us in the field. Most of the startups that I'm familiar with are web-based and/or mobile/communication platforms. Surely, there is no way for me to know them all and there are probably so many that under development (or that I've overlooked)... Anyway, I listed here (and at the site) the ones that I feel most strongly about and believe in their success. (needless to say that I'm talking about Web 2.0 right..?)
There is always room for more :-) if you feel that you need to be listed, just shoot me an email
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Metacafe - Serving the World's Best Videos
Tvinci - Making Video Content Smarter and Richer
Wix - Make Free Flash Web Content in Minutes
ClickTale - Record - Watch - Understand the users at your site
Kontera - Creating In-Text Relevance
eToro - Financial Trading Made Simple
Jagango - Create your Mobile Web-Page
Toluna - Create Polls and Vote for Free
Answers.com - Online Dictionary
MeeMix - Community Internet Radio
Taboola - Breakethrough Video Technology
MuseStrom - Conten Engagement Platform
iMedix - Find and Share Health Information
PredictAd - Enhance Search, Monetize, and get Powerful Analytics
PicScout - Your Visual Assets Always Come First
MyHeritage - Create A Family Tree - Genealogy
Youfig - Collaborate. Network. Community
SeeToo - Watch Videos with your Buddies
SortFix - Start Dragging Stop Typing
Flixwagon - Your Life.. Live
Kaltura - Creating Video Project Together
Tripim - When you are away from Home
Lingoz - Building the World's Largest Dictionary
Yoomba - Calling all Emails
Wannago - Simple way to Meet New People
Labpixies - Your Source for the Coolest Gadgets on the Web
BlogTV - Broadcast your own TV Show
G.ho.st - Virtual Computer - Global Hosted Operating System
ooVoo - Talk Face to Face - Video Conference
5min - Live Videopedia
Foxytunes - Universal Personalized Music Mashup
Gumiyo - Connecting Buyers and Sellers
Gizmoz - Animate Yourself
Zlio - Your Very own Shop
Wishood - Make your Wishes Come True
BubblePLY - User-Generated Pop-Up Video
Gigya - Boost Widget Distribution and Get Online Tracking
Omgili - Search for Discussions Across Thousands of Online Forums
AniBoom - The Online Animation Competition
FixYa - Find All Support Information for Any Consumer Product
Fring - Discover Free Mobile Calls with your 3G Handset
TrustedOpinion - Where YOUR friends suggest what's BEST
Palore - Make the Right Call
Zlango - Platform which Transforms SMS into Colorful Icon Based Experience
ViewScore - Product Review Digest
Sprotingo - The Online Destination Built for and By Sport Fans
Dapper - A Service which Makes it Easy to Extract Content from any Website
Yedda - Proactive Social Knowledge Search
Spotback - Personalized News and Rating
eSnips - 5GB Free to Upload and Share Files
Pando - Send and Receive Large Files
In addition to this list, I've created a slideshow with posts from the blogsphere and news about all these Startups:
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There is always room for more :-) if you feel that you need to be listed, just shoot me an email
ClickMe
Metacafe - Serving the World's Best Videos
Tvinci - Making Video Content Smarter and Richer
Wix - Make Free Flash Web Content in Minutes
ClickTale - Record - Watch - Understand the users at your site
Kontera - Creating In-Text Relevance
eToro - Financial Trading Made Simple
Jagango - Create your Mobile Web-Page
Toluna - Create Polls and Vote for Free
Answers.com - Online Dictionary
MeeMix - Community Internet Radio
Taboola - Breakethrough Video Technology
MuseStrom - Conten Engagement Platform
iMedix - Find and Share Health Information
PredictAd - Enhance Search, Monetize, and get Powerful Analytics
PicScout - Your Visual Assets Always Come First
MyHeritage - Create A Family Tree - Genealogy
Youfig - Collaborate. Network. Community
SeeToo - Watch Videos with your Buddies
SortFix - Start Dragging Stop Typing
Flixwagon - Your Life.. Live
Kaltura - Creating Video Project Together
Tripim - When you are away from Home
Lingoz - Building the World's Largest Dictionary
Yoomba - Calling all Emails
Wannago - Simple way to Meet New People
Labpixies - Your Source for the Coolest Gadgets on the Web
BlogTV - Broadcast your own TV Show
G.ho.st - Virtual Computer - Global Hosted Operating System
ooVoo - Talk Face to Face - Video Conference
5min - Live Videopedia
Foxytunes - Universal Personalized Music Mashup
Gumiyo - Connecting Buyers and Sellers
Gizmoz - Animate Yourself
Zlio - Your Very own Shop
Wishood - Make your Wishes Come True
BubblePLY - User-Generated Pop-Up Video
Gigya - Boost Widget Distribution and Get Online Tracking
Omgili - Search for Discussions Across Thousands of Online Forums
AniBoom - The Online Animation Competition
FixYa - Find All Support Information for Any Consumer Product
Fring - Discover Free Mobile Calls with your 3G Handset
TrustedOpinion - Where YOUR friends suggest what's BEST
Palore - Make the Right Call
Zlango - Platform which Transforms SMS into Colorful Icon Based Experience
ViewScore - Product Review Digest
Sprotingo - The Online Destination Built for and By Sport Fans
Dapper - A Service which Makes it Easy to Extract Content from any Website
Yedda - Proactive Social Knowledge Search
Spotback - Personalized News and Rating
eSnips - 5GB Free to Upload and Share Files
Pando - Send and Receive Large Files
In addition to this list, I've created a slideshow with posts from the blogsphere and news about all these Startups:
Fullscreen
9 Comments:
Great review.
But lets say you had some money for investment and had to pick only 3. Which ones would you chose?
great summary. 2008 here we go!
Thanks for the slide show. You should post it on www.slideshare.net.
do you know which ones are real companies with revenues \ profits ?
well, you can be sure I have some assumptions..
Don't forget WikiAnswers, the fastest growing wiki-based communal Q&A site, brought to you by the same folks at Answers.com.
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great post!
few things....
aniboom, answers, metacafe and esnips are on a different level than the rest! big time.
wishood is nearly dead.
there are also Hingi and mdjunction which are israeli
Well Orli...I am gonna have to spend some time digging through that list. It always amazes me how much of the web based technology comes out of Israel. Very impressive. I gotta, as a representative of ooVoo, thank you for listing ooVoo as one of the companies to watch. Have you actually tried using ooVoo? I would love to hear your experience if you have. Thanks for the great list.
Orli, great summary! It's been a great year for Israeli web startups. I actually posted a comprehensive overview of the 2007 internet industry in Israel on VC Cafe (www.vccafe.com) where I cover early stage startups, vc deal flow and new tech with a spotlight on Israel. I linked to your list as well.
For the full article on Vc Cafe:
http://www.vccafe.com/2008/01/04/wrapping-the-israeli-internet-scene-in-2007/
Happy 2008,
Eze
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