Deal Radar 2009: GreenRoad

GreenRoad’s focus is to improve driver safety and significantly reduce crashes and fuel consumption. The company uses technology to change human behavior, encouraging people to make better choices about their driving. GreenRoad’s flagship service is the GreenRoad Safety Center, which combines in-vehicle technology with integrated web applications that rate driving skills and behavior, train drivers in

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Deal Radar 2008: GirlSense

Continuing our coverage of online gaming, today I discuss GirlSense, the online tween social network for girls. Part of the Israel-based tween community StarNet Interactive, GirlSense allows girls to play dress up games, create their own designs, and build and interact on their own networks.

Another $800 Million Fund

Lightspeed Ventures announced the raising of its new $800 Million fund. “It was a robust fundraising environment,” [Chris] Schaepe [General Partner] said. “There continues to be very good appetite within the LP community for early-stage venture capital.” Right. Early stage venture capital with a $800 Million fund. Read: Fund Envy and The Real VCs of

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Deal Radar 2008: Adap.tv Trying to Tackle the Video Ad Problem

After the success of shopping.com (now owned by eBay), Amir Ashkenazi, stepped into the hairy world of video advertising through his recently founded Adap.tv in Nov 2006. It claims to provide publishers and advertisers the best tool to make video ads more effective without interrupting the streaming flow. [see interview: Cracking the Online Video Monetization

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Green Israel

Sagi Rubin from Gemini participated in writing this post by Danny Cohen. Israel is already known to be a very active place for tech startups. These days, you have everything in Israel: Security (Checkpoint!), Pharmaceutical (Teva!), Communications (Comverse!), Software (Amdocs!), and even Internet (ICQ, Yedda, Answers.com). But what about Green tech?

Marvell: Intel Deal Intelligent?

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author Marvell (MRVL) is a Santa Clara based semiconductor company with a wide footprint ranging from storage, communications and consumer products. It was started in 1995 by Sehat Sutardja, his wife Weili Dai and his brother Pantas Sutardja. iPhone fans will know this company as the provider of its Wi-Fi capabilities.

Pioneering Video Conferencing: Polycom CEO Bob Hagerty (Part 13)

SM: What is your philosophy of recruiting leadership? Is it domain expertise, leadership skills, both? BH: Yes, yes and yes! It is all of those things. It is a cultural fit. It is an excitement. There are not many maintenance jobs given the speed that we are growing at. We are looking for people with

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Do We Need More Funds in India?

Someone posed this very appropriate question in response to my Incubator Fund series. The answer is No. However, what we need is two things: