Difference between revisions of "Yossi Vardi"
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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). | 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). | ||
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| + | ==Kinnernet== | ||
| + | To help foster a culture of innovation and creativity in Israel and abroad, Vardi founded Kinnernet, an annual three-day gathering of creative people from all over the world at the shores of the Lake of Gallilee. | ||
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