The dot com biggest event of 2008! Who will be the ten chosen startups to make it?
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Gold Sponsorship
KPMG Somekh Chaikin’s technology practice in Israel has extensive experience in advising and auditing a diverse client base in the technology industry. Its wide-ranging services provide strategies for issues faced by technology and media companies throughout their development from emerging, fast-growth, venture-backed startup companies to global, publicly traded companies. Services include auditing, employee compensation planning, international taxes, risk and advisory services, corporate finance and transaction services.
KPMG Somekh Chaikin is one of Israel’s leading professional services firms catering to a wide range of clients and providing auditing, tax, advisory and risk management services.
KPMG Somekh Chaikin is one of Israel’s leading professional services firms catering to a wide range of clients and providing auditing, tax, advisory and risk management services.
About KPMG:
KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We operate in 145 countries and have 123,000 people working in member firms around the world.
For further information please contact Sarit Cohen, Business Development, KPMG Somekh Chaikin, 03-6848347, saritcohen@kpmg.com
Amdocs is the market leader in customer experience systems innovation, enabling world-leading service providers to deliver an integrated, innovative and intentional customer experience(TM) at every point of service.
Amdocs provides solutions that deliver customer experience excellence, combining the software, service and expertise to help its customers execute their strategies and achieve service, operational and financial excellence. A global company with revenue of $2.84 billion in fiscal 2007, Amdocs has more than 17,000 employees and serves customers in more than 50 countries around the world. For more information, visit Amdocs at www.amdocs.com.
As the market leader in customer experience systems innovation, Amdocs fosters new ideas and new solutions to service providers’ challenges. Through the Amdocs Open Innovation programs, we collaborate with young startup companies to ensure that their unique offerings and entrepreneurial spirit are leveraged to help our customers transform from utilities to purveyors of the digital lifestyle.
Amdocs Open Innovation includes two programs:
Amdocs Ascend! identifies complementary startup innovations to create joint offerings that expand the capabilities of the Amdocs CES Portfolio. Through this program, we catapult talented young companies to the forefront of market leadership, as we deepen the value we bring to our customers.
Amdocs Engage! expands the scope of collaboration with startups and tailors specific “Innovation Exchange Events” for Amdocs customers to facilitate introduction of new solutions and technologies to the customers’ specific areas of interest.
For more information, visit Amdocs at www.amdocs.com/openinnovation.
Netcraft is a strategy, user experience, design and technology web agency with a distinguished track record in serving high profile clients in Israel and the United States.
Netcraft’s goal is to partner with it's clients to create a web presence that will evolve with their business objectives, resonate with their target audience, differentiate them from their competition, and integrate with their total vision and goals.
Among the clients with which Netcraft has partnered you can find: AOL, The Marker, Amdocs, Cellcom, IncrediMail, Aniboom, Clalit Health Services, Netex and many more established companies and various startups with whom the company created top notch social networks, e-commerce, content, media and custom solutions.
Netcraft was established in 2000 by Joey Simhon and Uzi Shmilovici who serve as the company's co-CEOs.
Visit www.netcraft.co.il for more information about the company and www.netcraft.co.il/blog for the company's blog.
Canaan Partners invests in visionary entrepreneurs and provides them the networks, insights and operational guidance required to build high-performance technology and healthcare companies. For over 20 years, Canaan has taken an active and committed role in the companies in which it invests, and has seen it portfolio companies complete more than 70 mergers and acquisitions and 53 IPO's. With $3 billion under management and a worldwide footprint, the firm is committed to catalyzing the growth of innovative companies in the Internet, digital media, communications & mobility, enterprise and clean tech industries. Among its successes are DoubleClick, the leading online advertising solution, Match.com, the most popular online dating site in the world, CommerceOne, the company that pioneered B2B ecommerce; Capstone Turbine, first to market and world's leading producer of commercially viable microturbine energy products; and VOIP equipment supplier Acme Packet, which was one of the top ten performing tech IPOs of 2006. Canaan has offices in California, Connecticut, India and Israel. For more information visit www.canaan.com.
In January 2006, Canaan established a local office in Herzliya Pituach to catalyze the development of early-stage start-up companies in Israel. Led by venture partner Izhar Shay, an entrepreneur himself and formerly founder, president and CEO of Business Layers, Canaan is working hand-in-hand with Israeli entrepreneurs to build the country’s next generation of world-class technology companies. In Israel, Canaan has invested to date in a number of companies, including N-trig, Prime Sense, LiveU and Peer39. For more information visit www.canaan.com.
Benchmark Capital, a leading venture capital firm, was founded in 1995 to help talented entrepreneurs with original ideas build successful technology companies. Benchmark’s general partners take a team-oriented, labor-intensive approach to venture investing to deliver a superior level of service to the firm’s portfolio companies. Benchmark’s portfolio includes high-profile start-ups like Infinera, MySQL, OpenTable, Second Life, Tellme, Yelp, Shopping.com, Conduit, Gigya, Seeking Alpha, Wilocity and Zillow, and franchise companies such as eBay, Juniper Networks and Red Hat. The firm manages nearly $2.8 billion in committed venture capital. For more information on Benchmark Capital, visit its website at benchmark.com
Silver Sponsorship
Appelfeld Zer Fisher is a boutique Law Firm which specializes in Intellectual Property law, including drafting, filing and prosecution of patent, design, and trademark applications. Our clients range from start-up companies to established high-tech corporations. Our staff, now-a-days 18 full-time employees, includes lawyers, patent attorneys, doctors, engineers, and computer experts, who work in teams, so that any patent application is handled by an expert in the relevant field.
The firm's staff provides us with extensive technical and legal expertise, and more important - deep understanding of "high-tech clients" and their unique needs. AZF has a special approach for start-up companies and starting technological ventures. Our firm has an "open door" policy and we encourage any entrepreneur who wishes to do so to consult with us.
We are happy to offer all companies participating in TWS 2008 two hours of free consultation in our offices.
We with all TWS 2008 good luck and hope you will continue to create new and exciting ventures!
Amsalem Tours & Travel Ltd. is a global travel management company, specializing in business travel. The company was founded in 1983 in Tiberias, Israel and has since grown from a small local tourism oriented travel agency into one of the leading Travel Management Companies (TMC) in the Israeli tourism industry, with 400 employees globally. Amsalem is committed to providing comprehensive business travel services to corporations around the world. Its international network operates around the clock, with offices in the North and Central America, Europe, APAC and the Middle East. The company is affiliated with international memberships such as IATA, UFTAA and ASTA.
Amsalem is uniquely structured to answer the challenging requirements of business travel, characterized by high dynamism, short cycles, frequent changes and complex policies:
- Professionalism: our staff comprises highly experienced professional travel agents, assisted by an array of support departments.
- Round-the-clock availability: we are pioneers in the industry with our unique 24/7 travel support desk, perpetually staffed by professional agents geared to handle crisis and other urgent situations.
- Accessibility: our entire team of agents is always accessible, equipped with advanced information and communications technologies to handle the most complex cases at any time.
- Technology: We have harnessed the most sophisticated IT and communications technologies to ensure our customers with the best quality travel services, at the highest efficiency and for the best available rates.
- Flexibility and short response: we take pride in our agents' adaptability to short notice changes, and their quick response time.
- Global Presence: with offices around the globe, sharing a common secured information system, Amsalem is capable of supporting its customers with the widest range of services and solutions worldwide. Amsalem has 4 IATA codes, for Israel, Europe and for both US coasts. In addition, the company has ticketing origins in China, Hong Kong, India and Singapore. Toll free numbers to our 24/7 travel desk are available to our clients in over 20 countries. This unique perspective in global operations gives an advantage to our travel consultants, who have extensive knowledge and expertise in both geographic and pricing aspects of the travel management field.
In addition to comprehensive travel management for corporations, Amsalem offers an array of complemental services, including:
- Meetings, Incentives & Events
- Domestic Tourism
- Private & Leisure Travel
- Israel & Mediterranean Tourism
- Massaot” Geographical Tours
- Hotels & Land Arrangements
Over the years Amsalem has harnessed the most sophisticated IT and communications technologies to ensure our customers with the best quality travel services, at the highest efficiency and for the best available rates. This includes an impressive array of proprietary software systems, some of which have been developed in-house.
Tel: 1-800-777-999
Website: www.amsalem.com