Altair Selected One of Globes' Ten Most Promising Israeli Start-ups of 2008 - Globes

Altair Selected One of Globes' Ten Most Promising Israeli Start-ups of 2008
Globes
Nov. 3, 2008

Globes" will publish the third edition of its annual high-tech magazine, "Blogs", this evening. "Blogs" picked ten promising start-ups as finalists and the ten most influential entrepreneurs whose influence is expected to continue through 2009.

"Blogs" includes in-depth interviews with top Israeli and foreign entrepreneurs, who discuss how the global crisis is affecting them and the industry as a whole. It also includes articles on the growing biotechnology and cleantech industries. There is also a survey with surprising responses to questions about what people really think about high-tech employees, and a special project about the gaming industry, which has an annual turnover of tens of billions of dollars.

The top ten most promising start-ups 2008-09:

- Amobee, a developer of cellular advertising content; raised $42 million.
- InfoGin, which adapts websites to cellular screen formats; raised $28 million.
- Vascular Biogenics is developing atherosclerosis and cancer treatments; raised $28 million.
- Altair Semiconductor Ltd., a fabless developer of mobile WiMAX chipsets; raised $48 million.
- N-Trig Ltd., which develops and makes advanced touch screens; raised $52 million.
- Payoneer Inc., a provider of online prepaid credit cards; raised $14 million.
- Aternity Inc., a developer of PC performance monitoring solutions; raised $13 million.
- Dune Networks Ltd., a fabless semiconductor supplier of networking devices; raised $54 million.
- Tulip Medical Ltd., which is developing an obesity treatment; raised $9 million.
- YCD Multimedia Ltd., which develops multimedia content management and distribution solutions; raised $23 million.