12/12/2007
Health search engine iMedix raised $2 million
Health search engine iMedix has raised $2 million in seed funding from private investors.
The community based healthcare search engine is combining advanced search with community features that allow people to find and share health information in order to make better health-related decisions.
iMedix is planning to make its health search technology available to Health portals, publications, blogs and other sites with relevant health information.
iMedix is a privately held startup in Herzeliya, founded in January 2007 by Amir Leitersdorf and Iri Amirav. Leitersdorf, CEO of iMedix, previously co-founded Movota, which was sold to The Bertelsmann Group in 2005. Amirav, CMO at iMedix, established and led the marketing division at the video sharing website Metacafe.
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11/18/2007
Video search engine Taboola raised $1.5 million from Evergreen
Video search engine Taboola has raised $1.5 million seed investment from Evergreen Venture Partner. The company developed hybrid solution that utilizing both contextual and behavioral algorithms, which enables a better match between the individual viewer interests and the video selection.
“In Taboola we recognized a solid business model and a solution which addresses the central pain of online video viewing – how to create a satisfying viewing experience,” said Erez Shachar, Managing Partner at Evergreen.
Taboola offers a personalized video recommendation solution that predicts the best subsequent videos to watch, based on analyzing user-generated video content. Taboola’s recommendation solution enhances user experience, increases time spent on their site, boosts loyalty and drives profitability. Marketers are able to have their ads served according to viewers’ personalized preferences and interests in a brand-safe environment.
Taboola is a privately held company founded in 2006 by Adam Singolda, the company current CEO. Prior to founding Taboola, Adam served as a commander of an elite unit in the Israeli Defense Forces in cooperation with the Israeli National Security Agency (I-NSA) for seven years. Alon Pilberg, Taboola's Chief Technological Officer, also served in an elite unit of the Israeli Defense Forces for six years.
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07/27/2007
Message boards and forums search engine Omgili gets seed funding from Pitango Venture
Message boards and forums search engine Omgili has completed a seed funding from Israeli-based venture fund Pitango Venture Capital. The funding will enable Omgili to pursue its plans to commercialize its technology and to accomplish first round of funding.
Omgili is a crawler based, vertical search engine that scans millions of online discussions worldwide in over 100,000 boards and forums, and is able to differentiate between discussion entities, such as, topic, post, answer and post date.
Omgili search engine enable individuals, companies and institutions to effectively tap into the collective intelligence and experience of millions of people on the World Wide Web, and derive valuable information, knowledge, conclusions and insights.
"Omgili search is rapidly growing in popularity, which confirms our belief that people can really benefit from knowing what other people are saying. Omgili's mission is to harness the infinite power of 'many to many' web communication platforms for the benefit of our customers," said Ran Geva, CEO of Omgili. "User Generated Content is a vast sea of knowledge and experience that is now at everyone's disposal."
Omgili was founded in April 2007 by the Geva and Israel tzadok. The company plan to develop marketing research tools that will allow marketers worldwide to actually listen to what their consumers are saying about their brands and products.
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16:50 Posted in Search Engine | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email this | Tags: Message boards, forums, discussions groups, search engine, Omgili, Ran Geva, Israel tzadok