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Guardicore, a leader in cloud and internal data center security, today announced the availability of its Guardicore Centra security platform in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. Guardicore customers can now take advantage of the scalability, high availability, and security of Azure, with streamlined deployment and management.
Fiverr International Ltd., (NYSE: FVRR), the company that is changing how the world works together, is expanding its industry store footprint with the introduction of a new store to meet commercial and residential building and design needs.
Guardicore, a leader in internal data center and cloud security, today unveiled new capabilities for its Infection Monkey that make it the industry's first Zero Trust assessment tool. Added features extend the functionality of the already successful Infection Monkey, a free, open source breach and attack simulation tool used by thousands to demonstrate and analyze their environments against lateral movement and attacks.
JFrog, the award-winning DevOps technology leader known for enabling liquid software via continuous update flows, has been named to the prestigious Forbes 2019 Cloud 100 list for a second consecutive year – the definitive ranking of the top 100 privately-held cloud companies in the world. The Cloud 100 list is published by Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures.
AppsFlyer, the global leader in mobile attribution and marketing analytics, has been named to the Forbes 2019 Cloud 100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures.
Talkspace, the global leader in telebehavioral health, today announces its first higher educational institution partnership with Williams College. One in three college freshman globally experience a mental health disorder, however many students feel ill-equipped with the necessary resources to manage them.
Guardicore a leader in internal data center and cloud security, today announced that it has partnered with Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, to deliver the first agentless and high-performance, low latency micro-segmentation solution for high speed 10G-100G networks
Fiverr International Ltd., (NYSE: FVRR), the company that is changing how the world works together, today launched its second industry store, this one focused on e-commerce in order to help the growing number of businesses that are selling online. E-commerce business owners can now quickly select from a variety of services to support all their omnichannel needs.
Sweet in launches luxury service apartments in Marabella!
Nestled in the the jewel of the Costa del Sol, Spain’s coastal wonder, lies miles of golden beaches and wonderful year-round sunshine.
Exciting nightlife & incredible seafood. No wonder Sweet Inn has launched in Marbella!
The Israeli startup JoyTunes, a global leader in music education, announces today the completion of a $25 million round led by Israeli growth fund Qumra Capital. Qumra was joined by existing investors Insight Venture Partners, (investors of Twitter and WIX) which led the previous round in the company. Among the company's investors are Aleph, Jeremy Stoppelman - CEO and founder of Yelp, Kaedan Capital, Founder Collective, Zohar Gilon, and additional investors
Fiverr International Ltd. (NYSE: FVRR), the company that is changing how the world works together, today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2019. Complete operating results and management commentary can be found by accessing the Company's shareholder letter posted to its investor relations website at investors.fiverr.com
AppsFlyer, the global leader in mobile attribution and marketing analytics, released today the 2019 edition of the State of Mobile Fraud.
Fiverr, (NYSE: FVRR), the company that is changing how the world works together, today introduced Studios, a transformative product offering sellers on its platform a new way to collaborate with each other. Fiverr freelancers can now join forces under one ‘Studio’ to create projects combining their different skills and experience to offer full service solutions to tackle larger and more complex assignments for businesses. Buyers get the same seamless experience, a single point of contact, a single brief and a single fixed price for an entire agency-like team.
Guardicore, a leader in internal data center and cloud security, today announced that is has been named a finalist in the Black Unicorn Awards for 2019, sponsored by Cyber Defense Magazine.
SweetInn launches 14th destination at the lovingly renovated ancient city of porto. As always, Sweet Inn has chosen an ideal location for its apartment and our apartments are located just off Rue Santa Caterina, Porto’s main shopping thoroughfare, in the high part of the city center.
Fiverr, (NYSE: FVRR), the company that is changing how the world works together, took a significant step today in expanding its e-commerce catalogue by introducing its first dedicated store for gaming-related digital services.
FIVERR (NYSE: FVRR), the company that is changing how the world works together, today announced a multi-faceted collaboration with comedian and actress Lilly Singh. This partnership is part of a series of collaborations with leading experts and influencers to teach the secrets of their domain to the Fiverr community and help empower them to do more.
JFrog, the Universal DevOps technology leader known for enabling liquid software via continuous update flows, is revealing key product and strategy announcements at the annual JFrog user conference, swampUP 2019. Held in San Francisco, swampUP is in the midst of two full days of industry keynotes and conference sessions.
Fiverr International Ltd. ("Fiverr"), announced today the pricing of its initial public offering of 5,263,158 ordinary shares at a public offering price of $21.00 per share. The shares are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on June 13, 2019 under the ticker symbol "FVRR."
Today, global publishing platform Minute Media announced that it raised $40 million in a funding round with new investors Hamilton Lane and Maor Investments. The company’s existing investors include Battery Ventures, Goldman Sachs, ProSieben, Dawn Capital, Qumra Capital, Vintage Investment Partners and Gemini Israel Ventures. T
Signals Analytics, whose business intelligence platform connects disparate, external data with deep context to help brands better align with evolving trends, announces the launch of Pharma Playbook™. The latest advance in business-driving, on-demand data analytics from the winner of Frost & Sullivan's 2019 Technology Innovation Award - Data Analytics, Pharma Playbook provides life sciences companies with direct insights, disrupting the industry's current approach to data analytics.
Talkspace, the global leader in telebehavioral health announced today $50 million in new financing led by Revolution Growth. Existing investors Norwest Venture Partners, Qumra Capital, Spark Capital and Compound Ventures, amongst others, will also participate in the round. Patrick Conroy of Revolution Growth will join the Talkspace board of directors.
In May 2019, our LPs, portfolio companies and close friends from the ecosystem were invited to join us for an enchanted evening at the Domaine du Castel winery in the Judean mountains to enjoy an evening of great wine and food, original Israeli modern dance and the very best of company.
Guardicore, leader in internal data center and cloud security, today announced it has raised $60 million in Series C funding, bringing the company’s total funding to $110 million. This more than doubles the total capital raised to date and represents an endorsement of Guardicore’s current momentum as the company continues to disrupt the broader firewall and data center markets.
New York, NY – March 20, 2019 – Signals Analytics has been chosen by Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, as the recipient of the 2019 Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Award, Data Analytics.
The data analytics company was specifically chosen for its next-gen, on-demand data platform that connects disparate external data with deep context to help brands better align with evolving trends.
AppsFlyer, the global leader in mobile attribution and marketing analytics, released today its latest Performance Index, providing marketers with the most comprehensive report to date on the evolving mobile advertising industry. Covering activity in the second half of 2018, the report draws on 370 media networks to examine 20 billion app installs, 11,500 apps, and 39 billion app opens.
NEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Minute Media, a leading global technology and publishing platform, announced the acquisition of The Big Lead, the popular sports & news digital publication. This acquisition brings yet another trusted media brand under the Minute Media umbrella and strategically aligns with Minute Media’s goal of expanding within key content verticals.
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Taboola, the world’s leading discovery platform, announced the execution of an agreement to acquire the Start Division of Celltick, a global leader in mobile discovery and engagement, which includes the Start and Start Magazine product lines. Following the completion of the acquisition, the Start team and technology will integrate into the Taboola News division to bring personalized and relevant recommendations in the form of premium publisher content on mobile devices.
SUNNYVALE, California, February 21, 2019 – JFrog, the DevOps technology leader known for enabling liquid software via continuous update flows, is announcing the strategic acquisition of Shippable, a continuous integration and DevOps automation platform company. Shippable’s portfolio of cloud-native and Kubernetes-ready CI/CD solutions will be incorporated into the JFrog platform, creating a complete, integrated DevOps pipeline solution.
Tel Aviv-based late-stage venture capital firm Qumra Capital will reveal a list of the most promising Israeli startups at Calcalist’s third annual Mind the Tech conference, to take place in New York on April 10-12. Qumra’s list of “Tomorrow’s Promising Growth Companies” will include Israeli companies its partners believe have the potential to reach over $10 million in annual revenues.
NEW YORK, Feb. 13, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fiverr today announced its acquisition of premium subscription-based content marketing platform, ClearVoice. Adding ClearVoice to the Fiverr portfolio is another way to ensure that professionals and larger businesses alike can conveniently and consistently access freelance talent for whatever they need, whenever they need it.
JFrog, the DevOps technology leader known for enabling liquid software via Continuous Update flows, is announcing that Xray, JFrog's flagship security and compliance scanning solution, will now provide the most comprehensive, integrated security solution in the market through a partnership with Risk Based Security [RBS]. RBS is the provider of VulnDB, which contains the world's broadest set of vulnerability intelligence. As a result of the partnership, all JFrog Xray customers will now be protected from more than 194,000 unique vulnerabilities, as they monitor their pipelines from code through productio
JFrog, the Universal DevOps technology leader known for enabling liquid software via continuous software update flows, is announcing the coming availability of JFrog GoCenter, the first-ever central repository for software modules developed in the popular Go programming language. GoCenter is a free, open source and public service that will be provided for the broad Go community in early 2019, and is being showcased at KubeCon Seattle.
Fiverr.com has launched in Germany. The online marketplace for creative and digital services now has a localized website with country-specific functions for Germans. This launch marks the first European branch of the Israeli tech company.
Sweet Inn, the next generation travel- tech startup today announced that founder Paul Besnainou has appointed industry veteran Javier Cedillo-Espin to Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Besnainou will assume the role of Executive Chairman and key advisor to the CEO focusing on strategic partnerships.
US-BASED Software as a Service (SaaS) mobile marketing analytics and attribution platform, AppsFlyer offers real-time mobile attribution and an analytics platform as well as enterprise-grade mobile fraud protection for advanced marketers
Our mission at Fiverr is to create the platform for the future of work. Our marketplace is already changing the lives of millions of people who have chosen to lead the freelancing lifestyle. And today, we are proud to introduce another product designed to help freelancers sharpen their skills – we call it Learn from Fiverr™️.
As mental health issues like anxiety and depression continue to rise in the adolescent community, Talkspace, the global leader in online therapy, announced today it will be extending its services to teens ages 13-17. Previously, due to legal requirements, the platform was only available for adults ages 18 and older. Now, with parental consent, teens can connect with a licensed therapist in their state via smartphone or computer — from anywhere, at any time.
Taboola, the world’s leading discovery platform, announced a global strategic partnership with vivo, the fifth largest smartphone manufacturer in the world. Under the partnership, Taboola will deliver a fully personalized content experience for vivo’s customers helping the manufacturer drive engagement and monetization and providing a significant new audience source to content publishers in the region.
Greg Coleman, the former global president of Criteo and Paul Haddad, president of A4 (Altice USA Data & Advertising Business), representing market leadership in both performance marketing and the future of advanced advertising, join the team to fuel the growth and continued adoption of the Eyeview Platform.
AppsFlyer, the global leader in mobile attribution and marketing analytics, announced today that it surpassed $100 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in the third quarter of 2018, growing at 100% every 12 months. Driving the company's revenue growth are the 85,000 apps whose marketers use AppsFlyer's products and services, propelling the company to over 70% market share worldwide.
JFrog, the universal DevOps technology leader, is announcing a $165 million Series D funding round led by Insight Venture Partners. Jeff Horing, co-founder and managing director will join JFrog’s Board. The secured funding will drive JFrog product innovation, support rapid expansion into new markets and accelerate both organic and inorganic growth.
The Publishing and Technology Platform Has Raised $77M in Total Funding, Now Expanding the Portfolio with its First Acquisition
JFrog wants to bring DevOps further into the enterprise with its acquisition of development and DevOps technology consulting company Trainologic. The company provides consulting services for Java, Scala, front end, DevOps, Big Data, software architecture and DevOps technologies.
AppsFlyer, the world's leading mobile attribution and marketing analytics platform, has announced a collaboration with leading Chinese social media platform Weibo. The partnership aims to improve the accuracy of digital advertising monitoring, and provide Chinese digital advertisers and media companies with a more comprehensive and effective digital advertising measurement standard.
Sigma Kappa Sorority and Talkspace, the global leader in online therapy, have announced a partnership to provide online counseling to members of the
Sorority’s 120-plus collegiate chapters across 36 states. The partnership will enable students to connect with Talkspace’s licensed therapists from the convenience of their smartphones. The collaboration brings a modern and student-friendly mental health solution to Sigma Kappa members across the nation as a new term starts, and in a time when anxiety and depression levels are on the rise among college students.
JFrog, the DevOps technology leader, today announced it has been named to the JMP Securities' Hot 100 list of the Best Privately Held Software Companies in 2018. JMP Securities, a full-service investment bank, selects the "Hot 100" list each year based on multiple criteria, including financial growth, products and services, quality of leadership, customers and market potential.
Video marketing technology company, Eyeview, announced today it has received $20 million in equity financing and debt led by current and new investors. The company will use the funding to further invest in its proprietary creative technology and data assets and continued growth.
Sweet Inn and Fornova have announced that they are teaming up, as Sweet Inn builds its own Revenue Management System (RMS), leveraging Distribution Intelligence from Fornova. Sweet Inn's newest digital crown, a data-driven software platform, will enable company to automatically optimize the pricing of its properties, as Fornova extends it Distribution Intelligence platform scan the rapidly growing vacation rental market.
It's official, Riskified is one of the best places to work in New York City. Great Place to Work and FORTUNE today unveiled their list for 2018, and Riskified, the leader in eCommerce fraud prevention, joined the list for the first time in the small and medium workplaces group. The rankings are based on employee surveys conducted and analyzed by Great Place to Work, and a total of 50 NYC-based companies are chosen.
The demand for data scientists and data analysts is steadily increasing, and they depend on R, as the leading statistical language. With the rise in R popularity, a growing number of data workers rely on CRAN, a package manager for R, with more than 10,000 packages to date. Now, a month after its Enterprise+ platform announcement, JFrog (https://jfrog.com), the DevOps technology leader, is announcing full support for deploying R packages to Artifactory.
Apartment provider Sweet Inn has officially launched in London, after opening 26 serviced apartments in the capital.
The apartments are in neighbourhoods including Mayfair, Lancaster Gate and Fitzrovia and are among 450 worldwide apartments recently added to the Sweet Inn network of short-term rental offerings.
Cannes Lions organizers are partnering with Fiverr, a platform connecting freelance talent within the creative fields with those seeking their services, as part of the Festival's embrace of the next-generation workforce development efforts.
New Directions Behavioral Health has announced a partnership with Talkspace, which offers online text, voice and video messaging therapy. Through this relationship, selected New Directions customers will be able to access the Talkspace platform through their Employee Assistance Program. Plans are underway to extend the platform to managed behavioral health clients in the near future.
Eyeview, industry leader in 1-to-1 outcome-based video marketing, today announced the appointment of Shatay Trigère in the newly created role of Chief Client Officer, overseeing Creative, Client Solutions, Marketing and Product Marketing
Talkspace, the global leader in online therapy, and Michael Phelps today announced a strategic partnership to promote therapy as an important tool to help improve one's mental health. The partnership will feature a national TV campaign in which Phelps will share his personal experiences, encourage people to speak openly about mental health, and demonstrate the unique benefits of Talkspace.
In May 2018 Qumra held its Annual Meeting at the beautiful Setai Hotel, situated along the Jaffa Port in Tel Aviv.
In line with our tradition, our Limited Partners and portfolio companies got together for a magical networking evening to celebrate the best of partnerships.
Global publishing platform, Minute Media, announced that it has raised $17 million in a Series F funding round that comprises of new investors, including Goldman Sachs and Vintage Investment Partners, as well as existing investors including Battery Ventures, Dawn Capital and Qumra Capital. This brings Minute Media’s total funding to $77 million to-date.
JFrog, creators of the universal DevOps platform, announces the second addition to its executive team this year. With over 25 years of financial experience driving growth and scalability of public companies, Jacob Shulman joins JFrog as Chief Financial Office
The gig life isn’t just for Uber drivers. And it’s not just about that much-reported millennial “side hustle” either. “Gig” is really just a new word for “freelance,” and that’s a concept that’s been around for a long, long time, encompassing much more than the ridesharing and delivery services that come to mind when one hears about the gig economy.
Online counseling platform offers convenient mental health access to 9,000+ students across 133 chapters and colonies in effort to decrease stigma and improve care.
mParticle, AppsFlyer, Braze (formerly Appboy), and Amplitude today announced the launch of OpenGDPR, establishing a common framework for compliance with GDPR mandated data subject rights. The OpenGDPR framework presents a public API specification along with a recommended set of best practices for implementing and maintaining a connected and compliant stack. By adopting OpenGDPR, brands can reliably address data subject requests across their partner ecosystems, in near real-time.
Former UnitedHealth Group Executives Join Talkspace - Neil Leibowitz, MD, JD as Chief Medical Officer; Deb Adler as Senior VP, Network and Quality. The new additions come as the company sees increased demand for online therapy in the commercial healthcare markets.
Taboola has partnered with ZTE, a leading mobile device manufacturer, to roll out its offering that creates a new revenue stream for the OEM while simultaneously opening a new audience source for Taboola’s premium publisher partners.
Celebrating the company's 8th anniversary, Fiverr's Micha Kaufman shares with Globes his vision for the on-line freelance marketplace.
With 300 employees, $100M in revenues and over 4000 thousand customers, JFrog is one of Israel's fastest growing companies .
AppsFlyer, the global leader in mobile attribution and marketing analytics, today announced the opening of an 11,000 square foot U.S. headquarters in the heart of San Francisco’s South of Market (SoMa) district. Located at 100 First Street, adjacent to the Transbay Terminal and Salesforce Tower, the location provides capacity for further growth as well as innovation space driven by the increased demand for its mobile attribution and marketing technology solution
Eyeview, the leader in outcome-based video marketing, today announced a guaranteed brand safety solution that specifically addresses the environments in which they run their personalized video marketing campaigns. This comes on the heels of its late 2017 announcement of a 100% guaranteed verification solution that addressed the growing concerns of marketers.
On Feb 14th, the Women Founder Forum held its third annual event, bringing together 200 women entrepreneurs, high tech executives and investors for an event that is all about creating a powerful network.
Fiverr, the marketplace for creative and digital services for entrepreneurial and small businesses, today announced the acquisition of freelance services platform AND CO.
Industry leader, Ayalla Goldschmidt, joins JFrog to head marketing and broaden the reach of JFrog in enterprise DevOps and the open source community
Like its first fund, Qumra Capital II is a late stage fund investing in growth startups.
Fiverr, the marketplace of creative and digital services for entrepreneurs and small businesses, today announced the opening of two new categories, Live Action Explainer Videos and Short Video Ads.
Eyeview, the leader in outcome-based video marketing, today announced a 100% guaranteed pre-bid verification solution that eliminates fraud, fosters brand-safe environments and delivers greater viewability for brands.
90min’s Global Football Media Platform to Increase Content for Sports Illustrated’s Dedicated Soccer Channel, Planet Fútbol, Ahead of 2018 World Cup.
Discovers massive scale of emerging type of mobile advertising fraud.
Tel Aviv-based Qumra Capital led the series C effort with participation from existing investors, including Palo Alto, California-based Norwest Venture Partners...
Company combines human and artificial intelligence to optimize the way global brands make product portfolio decisions.
Simplifies data transparency and sharing between agencies and marketers
New investment will take the e-commerce fraud-protection leader to the next level, as it continues to develop its technology, grow the team in New York and Tel Aviv and expand into new markets.
Minute Media, the leading global fan-driven sports media business, today announced the launch of its newest brand, esports platform DBLTAP.
This acquisition of the US-India based company will allow DevOps BI and analytics to drive DevOps forward, scaling software releases and Continuous Updates.
In May 2017 Qumra held its Annual Meeting at the beautiful Elma Arts Hotel atop the Hills of Zichron Yaakov. Our Limited Partners and portfolio companies met for a magical networking evening with the finest in Israeli music and dining.
French-Israeli startup Sweet Inn, a luxury apartment booking site, has raised €20 million. The fundraising round was led by Israeli Qumra Capital...
Minute Media, parent company of 90min and 12up, the leading global fan-driven sports media platform, has announced the closing of a $15 million investment...
Qumra Capital, Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing, Deutsche TelekomCapital Partners and Pitango Growth Join Investors Roster AppsFlyer...
In May 2016 we were happy to host Qumra Capital's first Annual Meeting in Tel Aviv, Israel. Our Limited Partners and portfolio companies enjoyed the opportunity to meet and share perspectives with a special appearance of the wonderful Ninet Tayeb and Shlomi Shaban
Signals Analytics, a data analytics company that delivers intelligence and insights to Fortune 5,000 companies to support product development and growth, raised $10 million in a new funding round from Qumra Capital...
On the heels of doubling revenue year over year, the company plans to continue investing in sales...
Riskified, a leading e-commerce fraud prevention company pioneering the chargeback guarantee, announced today that it has secured $25 million in a growth round of financing, led by Qumra Capital with participation...
As all companies in every industry deliver more of their value through software, they are sharing the pain of moving to a modular software architecture in order to deliver software faster.
Erin Brodin talks to Business Insider about her experience with the talkspace platform
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As the world's largest marketplace for creative and professional services, Fiverr® is pleased to announce today Series C funding from Bessemer Venture Partners, Accel Partners, Qumra Capital and additional private investors for $30M...