Yigal Arnon & Co
site est. ~1960 more
Full range of antitrust counseling services that encompass monopolies, strategic alliances, exclusive distribution arrangements, corporate partnering transactions and mergers and acquisitions.
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YL Ventures
site news contact est. 2007 more
Boutique venture capital firm that was founded to address the changing venture capital financing landscape. It firm invests in high technology start-up companies and, within a short timeframe, merges and integrates them with global strategic acquirers. It was launched by successful serial entrepreneurs with a focus on investing in the emerging markets of Europe and Israel.
Technology companies require less capital and more innovation in order to succeed. Many venture funds have grown too large to effectively deploy the smaller amounts of capital more appropriately required by early stage companies. This phenomenon has been especially true in Europe and Israel, the markets in which the fund operates.
YL Ventures calibrates the amount of capital invested in early stage Internet, mobile and digital media companies to both milestones and the likely exits. This preserves the ability to reach a successful investment across a full range of exit scenarios and helps to keep the interests of the investors and entrepreneurs aligned. The fund also assists portfolio companies by maintaining relationships with potential partners and acquirer’s in Europe and the US.
YouFig
site est. 2007 private beta more
YouFig is pioneering the next step in the evolution of real-time widgetized collaboration by allowing companies to create their own white label collaboration communities and mimic classic, face-to-face collaboration while leveraging the power of social networking and group thought on the Internet.
YouFig provides companies, organizations and schools with private collaboration communities with widgetized workspaces on which to band and exchange information and create content of any kind in real time. Tools such as instant messaging, wikis, video conferencing and a large and growing selection of modular, interactive collaboration widgets developed by both YouFig and third-party widget publishers allow people to work on any issue using any type of media (documents, videos, music, spreadsheets, games, 3D spaces and more).
YouFig is unique in that its users network not based on who they know, but rather on what they know. This contrasts with social networks today where networking happens simply because people want to increase their perceived popularity. On YouFig, the more users collaborate, the more opportunities they have to establish trusted networks of friends to collaborate with again and again. Social bonds therefore constantly evolve and grow the more people collaborate and contribute.
But, no social network is really required to get started. YouFig has also developed a self-learning matchmaking mechanism (AI) that automatically matches community members other members and workspaces. So while users can collaborate with friends and colleagues from their own network, the system will also recommend others who may be able to contribute to their workspaces based on their profile and prior behavior on the site.
YouFig’s development of real-time collaboration widgets has exposed a massive opportunity for the company to enter not only the consumer and enterprise collaboration markets, but also capture a significant portion of a market that until today has been completely untapped. As part of its collaboration platform, YouFig has developed a real-time discussion widget with embedded contextual ads which will be marketed to content publishers (e.g., blog sites, news outlets, portals, Digg, Wikipedia, etc.) to embed on their sites. This will allow content creators to monetize not only the content they author, but also the content created by viewers and visitors who are discussing and “talking back” in response to that content in real time. And all achieved with a single line of embed code on the relevant blog.
