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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Vardi served as Director General of the Ministry of Development (at the age of 27). He served as the chairman of Israel Chemicals (at the age of 28), of Mifaley Tovala, of Harsit and Hol Zach, and as a member of the boards of Israel Electric Corporation, Dead Sea Works, Dead Sea Bromine, Dead Sea Periclase, Haifa Chemicals, Chemicals and Phosphates, and others. He also chaired the Oil Explorations Concessions Council and Fertilizers Development Council. | Vardi served as Director General of the Ministry of Development (at the age of 27). He served as the chairman of Israel Chemicals (at the age of 28), of Mifaley Tovala, of Harsit and Hol Zach, and as a member of the boards of Israel Electric Corporation, Dead Sea Works, Dead Sea Bromine, Dead Sea Periclase, Haifa Chemicals, Chemicals and Phosphates, and others. He also chaired the Oil Explorations Concessions Council and Fertilizers Development Council. | ||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
*Wikipedia bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yossi_Vardi | *Wikipedia bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yossi_Vardi | ||
| + | *Crunchbase profile: http://www.crunchbase.com/person/yossi-vardi | ||
[[Category:People]] | [[Category:People]] | ||
[[Category:Entrepreneurs]] | [[Category:Entrepreneurs]] | ||
