• Wochit

  Participated · Equity · Oct 2016

  Wochit is a social video creation platform that enables newsrooms, media companies and brands to create socially-optimized videos at scale. Led by co-founder and CEO Dror Ginzberg, the platform offers cloud-based editing tools, native uploads, and access to rights-cleared assets from AP, Reuters, Getty, Bloomberg and others. Users worldwide include Time Inc., Daily News, USA Today, Gannett, AOL, The Week, ProSieben, Singapore Straits Times, Die Welt and Der Spiegel. The company received a strategic investment from PA Group; the amount of the deal was not disclosed. The investment is intended to fund development of new tools and features to enhance Wochit’s technology and to support global expansion. Wochit is backed by Redpoint Ventures, Marker LLC, Greycroft Partners, Cedar Fund, ProSieben, Singapore Press Holdings’ SPH Media Fund and Carlo de Benedetti, and maintains offices in London and Tel Aviv. Wochit provides a cloud-based platform that automates production of timely, socially-optimized short-form video, pairing newsroom workflows with a large library of pre-licensed assets from agencies such as AP, Reuters, Getty and Bloomberg. Its tools target newsrooms, media companies and brands, enabling faster production around trending topics. Worldwide media brands including Time Inc., Daily News, USA Today, Gannett, AOL, The Week, ProSieben, Singapore Straits Times, Die Welt and Der Spiegel use the platform. Led by co-founder and CEO Dror Ginzberg, the company aims to expand its business with publishers and content creators worldwide. The company plans to use the newly raised capital to further enhance its technology and global expansion efforts. Wochit is based in New York City and also maintains offices in London and Tel Aviv. Wochit provides a text-to-video platform that uses natural-language search to spider articles, pull fully licensed content, and generate scripts to create videos. The company offers end-to-end video production for a per-video fee and takes a cut of ad revenue, while also offering a self-service mode for publishers seeking editorial control. Wochit coordinates human voice-over talent (reported turnaround of two-to-three minutes) and operates branded channels for general and entertainment news. High-profile customers include Forbes, AOLOn, The Chicago Tribune, and Yahoo. The company relocated its headquarters to New York from Israel to be closer to media clients. Wochit raised $11 million in new financing and had previously raised $4.75 million in May 2013. The new capital will be used to expand sales and business development, improve the product, and build out the engineering team. Wochit provides a platform that leverages technology and production expertise to create real-time news videos that publishers can select and integrate based on topical relevance. The company serves websites, mobile applications, news organizations, blogs and other publishing entities. It plans to use the new capital to accelerate sales and roll out initiatives that organize content by channels on particular subjects, which customers can embed as automatically refreshed feeds. The product emphasis is on quickly producing topical video tailored to audience interests. Wochit is led by co-founder and CEO Dror Ginzberg and CTO Ran Oz. The company is based in New York and Tel Aviv and recently closed a fresh institutional financing.

• Pixie Technology

  Participated · Series B · Jul 2016

  Pixie Technology builds a Location of Things (LoT) platform that combines augmented reality navigation with signaling technology to let users create digital maps of tagged items. The company sells small tags called Pixie Points™ that affix to items such as keys, wallets, remotes, toys and pets; the tags continually communicate to allow precise location tracking via the Pixie app. Led by CEO and co‑founder Amir Bassan‑Eskenazi, Pixie enables users and developers to view and manage a personal digital map of all tagged items. The company will use the $18.5m Series B proceeds to scale production and expand its LoT platform, ecosystem and Software Development Kit to enable third‑party applications. Pixie also plans to build its signaling technologies into other products, devices and services. The company is based in Los Altos, California, has offices in Boston and Israel, and has raised $24m in total funding.

• personali

  Participated · Series B · Jun 2015

  Personali is a New York-based incentives personalization platform that enables online retailers to let shoppers personalize their own prices within limits set by the retailer. Its approach lets shoppers pay a price of their choosing while protecting profit margins because offers vary by shopper. Led by co-founder and CEO Noam Javits and co-founder and CPO Keren Zimmerman, the company has generated over $200M in incremental revenue for retailers across North America, Europe and South America in the past 18 months. Clients include Fortune 50, 100 and 500 retailers as well as members of Forbes' Global 2000. Personali plans to use the funds to expand global sales and marketing, enhance and grow product offerings and hire technical talent for its development center in Tel-Aviv.

• 365Scores

  Participated · Equity · Sep 2014

  365Scores is a London startup that provides fully localised iOS and Android mobile apps to keep sports fans informed with live scores, news, photos and video. The app lets users follow teams, athletes and sports and sends live push notifications—2 billion have been sent in aggregate—and aggregates local sports news and social media. Its Android app has surpassed 5 million downloads and the product is localised in 20 languages. 365Scores includes a social feature called "Virtual Stadium" to enable fans worldwide to converse during and after events. The company says it will use new funding to bolster those social features. The app is free to download and the company plans to monetise later via advertising, sponsored content and select e-commerce. The startup previously raised a $1.2M Series A in January last year. 365Scores is a sports notification app that lets users follow teams, athletes and sports and receive live push notifications about important game moments. The app serves news, scores, photo and video updates and also pulls in content from local sports news outlets. It has passed 1.5 million installs across its web app, browser plugin, Android and iOS apps. The company recently released new Android and iOS versions featuring a new live score display, better standings information and more social features. CEO Ami Sirkis said the new funding will be used to grow the product, expand the platform and add features. 365Scores is Tel-Aviv-based.

• Datorama

  Participated · Series B · Sep 2014

  Datorama offers a Software-as-a-Service marketing analytics platform that enables enterprises, agencies and publishers to connect and unify all their marketing data into a single source for more efficient reporting and decision making. The solution combines data management, machine learning (AI) technology and high-performance architecture to help marketers connect, unify, analyze and act on their marketing data. Led by co-founder and CEO Ran Sarig, the company serves thousands of brands and hundreds of agencies, publishers and technology companies, including L’Oréal, Foursquare, Yahoo! JAPAN and GoDaddy. In December 2016 Datorama closed a $32M Series C, bringing its total funding to $50M. The company said it will use the funds to accelerate R&D in artificial intelligence and machine learning, expand its global presence and hire talent to support customer adoption and growth. Datorama is a NYC-based developer of a marketing analytics platform. Its platform helps agencies and brands extract insights from omnichannel marketing data. The company serves agencies and brands in the U.S., Australia, France, Spain, the U.K., the Netherlands, Israel and Latin America. Datorama has offices in New York, London, Spain, Tel Aviv and Sydney. In September 2014 the company raised $15M in a Series B financing. It intends to use the funds to expand staff and sales and marketing efforts. Datorama provides a self-service cross-channel marketing analytics platform that allows marketers to visualize real-time return on investment for campaigns across TV, social media, SEM, online display and video, programmatic, email, internal sales data, print and more. The platform consolidates diverse campaign data into a single dashboard for ROI visualization. Co‑founded by CEO Ran Sarig, CTO Efi Cohen and Chief Solutions Officer Katrin Ribant, the company emphasizes marketer self-service. Datorama has offices in New York, London, Tel Aviv and Sydney. The company raised $3M in its first round of funding and intends to use the proceeds for continued development and marketing of its platform. Investors in the round included Cedar Fund and Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors.

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