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Joseph (Yossi) Vardi is one of Israel's early high-tech entrepreneurs. For over 40 years he has founded and helped to build over 60 high-tech companies in a variety of fields, including software, energy, Internet, mobile, electro-optics and water technology. ==Entrepreneurial activities== At the age of 26, in 1969, he co-founded and was CEO of Tekem, one of the first software houses in Israel (which was sold to Tadiran, went public and now is part of Ness). Vardi also co-founded Alon oil company, International Laser Technologies (ITL, which went public) and Granite Hacarmel (went public). Vardi is an early stage "angel," actively engaged in founding and helping young internet companies. In 1996 he was the founding investor of Mirabilis, the company which created ICQ, the first Internet-wide Instant messaging, and which was sold to Yahoo for over 400 million dollars. Other companies he invested in or helped to build include: Answers.com (went public), Gteko (sold to Microsoft), Airlink (sold to Sierra Wireless), Tivella (sold to Cisco), Scopus (went public), CTI2 (sold to Audiocodes), Foxytunes (sold to yahoo), Tucows (went public), and Starnet (sold to IAC/InterActiveCorp). He also invested in Wibiya (a web search engine aggregator,) SeeToo (a social viewing site,) Come2Play (a social gaming site,) fring, speedbit, Cellogic (developer of a widget engine for mobile platforms) and BloggersBase (a discovery platform for premium UGC). ==External Links== *Wikipedia bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yossi_Vardi [[Category:People]] [[Category:Entrepreneurs]]
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