Difference between revisions of "Yossi Vardi"
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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. | ||
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| + | 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). | ||
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| + | Vardi is an early stage "angel". Since 1996 he is actively engaged in founding and helping young internet companies and is focusing on internet startups. In 1996 he became the founding investor of Mirabilis (company) - the creator of ICQ, which is the first Internet-wide Instant messaging. Among the companies he invested in, or helped to build are 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). Among his other investmenets are: [1] 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), BloggersBase (a discovery platform for premium UGC) and many others. | ||
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