Mobile Marketing Automation Web: www.appoxee.com |
Appoxee is an innovative mobile engagement tool for mobile app developers. The company’s goal is to help developers reach out to their users through enabling post download engagement via unique, powerful, and easy to use tools. Appoxee creates tools and services around sending interactive and engaging messages from the developers to their users, while adding complimentary add-ons that help better understand and enhance their mobile business like user feedback management and more apps cross-marketing widgets.
Media Intelligence Web: www.biscience.com |
BIScience is a next generation advertising measurement & analysis SaaS provider for online businesses. It offers validation, measurement, and analysis solutions for online advertising activities, which is bound to maximize profits by providing insights and analytics of one’s online presence, compared to specific competitors and entire market segments, trends, and budget analyses. In addition, it offers valuable solutions for clarifying and evaluating online marketing activities across all channels: display, mobile, social, SEM, etc. All of these solutions are secure, reliable, intuitive, and usable.
The Rebirth of the Music Album Web: www.ialbums.com
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iAlbums is a content platform that presents information on music being played on mobile and desktop. Founded by music industry veterans, the goal is to was to provide a solution for the absence of experience in the new methods of music listening. iAlbums provides value for the users, the artists and the labels. The musicians can take an active part in their iAlbums album experience, they can provide a personalization aspect to the users, and leave the old music players days in the dust. Users will enjoy an enriched music listening experience, with reviews, biographies, articles, news, photos, videos and so much more. Labels will be able to cross-promote their releases to the relevant audience. iAlbums revolutionize the way people listen to music today.
Maximizing ROI Web: www.jottix.com
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Jottix is a technology based media agency in the online entertainment market. Founded in 2008, it is one of Cyhawk Ventures first portfolio companies. Jottix developed a multi-conversion customer acquisition platform which combines highly targeted media buying, lead generation and email marketing in order to generate outstanding results to tier one customers in the field. Jottix’s customers tap on an exclusive entertainment web sites network with proprietary products and a world-wide community of subscribers. Jottix works with both advertisers and publishers, finding the perfect synergy to maximize revenues and ROI.
MultiChannels Your Marketing Web: www.ongage.com
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Ongage is a start-up company in the email marketing arena. It was founded in 2010 by a team of email marketers with over 7 years of extensive experience in email systems, infrastructure, APIs, ESPs and MTA gateways. Ongage used the vast experience and expertise they acquired in this area in order to develop OngageConnect™ an advanced email marketing optimization platform that enables email marketers to harness the power of multiple email service providers and SMTP relays. The system is designed to help organizations increase deliverability, inbox placement and maximize ROI.
The Science of Performance Web: www.matomy.com |
Matomy Group, formerly known as Adsmarket, is a digital media agency with a smart, cross-platform solution that specializes in the fields of affiliate marketing, display advertising, virtual currency and mobile advertising. The first company in Cyhawk Ventures portfolio from 2005, Matomy Group is a profitable venture that serves more than 20 billion impressions across 170 million unique users, on a monthly basis. Matomy Group provides global performance based digital marketing solutions for advertisers, agencies and publishers located in over 45 geographies in Europe, North America, Latin-America and Asia-Pacific.
Crowd Sourcing Landing Page Optimization Web: www.pluralis.com
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Pluralis is a crowd sourced platform for conversion and landing page optimization. It is home to an online community of passionate creative optimizers who crave exciting online advertising challenges. Pluralis provides the first service ever that allows online marketers crowd source the optimization and testing of their campaigns and landing pages, create high converting funnels, and pay on a performance basis. Pluralis will change the way online marketers manage and optimize their landing pages.
Display. Simplified. Web: www.xertivemedia.com
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Xertive Media is an independent trading desk, specializing in smart acquisition of traffic over vast inventory, for the purpose of direct response in selected markets and verticals. It leverages cost gaps across multiple media inventory sources, performance lift generated through the use of internal and external sources of behavioral and contextual data and RTB ad-exchange automation and optimization, in order to earn incremental margins across diverse media pricing models. Xertive Media is the only company that delivers both the personalized and dedicated service of a media agency, combined with cutting-edge Algo Trading Capabilities, and the tremendous reach of the biggest ad inventory aggregators.
Kfir is Co-Founder and General Partner at Cyhawk Ventures. Active in the online industry for more than 15 years, Kfir focuses on New Media, Online Advertising and Digital Marketing. He currently sits on the boards of Matomy Media Group, BIScience, OnGage and iAlbums.
Prior to launching Cyhawk in 2001, Kfir co-founded Matomy Media Group (previously AdsMarket) and grew it into a worldwide leader in multi-channel performance-based advertising. During his tenure as CEO and CTO, Kfir oversaw all strategic, operational, and technological decisions. He also formed strategic relationships with industry leaders such as McCann-Erickson and other Fortune 500 companies and grew the company to annual revenues of $100 million.
Kfir believes strongly in mentoring founding teams and paving the way for them to succeed. As an avid technologist, Kfir is prescient when it comes to identifying unrealized industry trends and new markets. He uses his wide-ranging experience in business development, strategic planning, and marketing to launch portfolio companies in the market and grow them into mature, profitable entities.
Kfir enjoys politics, traveling, art, surfing and practicing self-awareness.
Assaf Ben-Asher co-founded Cyhawk Ventures in 2001 and serves as General Partner at Cyhawk. Since his early teen years, Assaf has had a range of successful online businesses – from affiliate marketing to security products and media management. This experience has given him an innate view of what the online market is looking for, and how to successfully create and market such businesses. Assaf uses this knowledge to help lead Cyhawk in new and exciting directions. Perfectly poised to spot true innovative, ground-breaking ideas that heal the markets hurt, Assaf helped create Cyhawk’s solid foundation of portfolio companies. He is the driving force behind Cyhawk’s business strategy - using his vision, he continues to move ahead and pioneer new exciting verticals.
Assaf currently sits on the Boards of BI Science, OnGage, Jottix, Sweesh and iAlbums.
In his free time, Assaf enjoys music, friends, travelling and learning new technologies.
Lennart Reus is one of Cyhawk’s original founders and its current Chief Technology Officer. With an innate understanding of software, hardware and programming design, Lennart knows what it takes to create highly scalable and complex Internet architectures. Autodidactic, and ever enthusiastic about new technologies, he started coding at the age of 10 and retains his love of exploring and re-inventing technology. Lennart has worked his way up through Cyhawk to the CTO position, and it is his intimate knowledge of the Cyhawk process and way of thinking, combined with his outstanding technical abilities, that makes him such a boon to the organization.
Lennart moved to Israel from Zwolle, The Netherlands. He studied at Technical University of Eindhoven.
Yuval Cohen serves on Cyhawk’s Advisory Board. He brings more than 17 years of experience in the venture capital market. Yuval founded and manages Stage One Ventures, a venture capital fund focused on seed and early stage investments in the Information and Communications Technology sectors. Prior to that he was a General Partner in Israel Infinity Fund, a $100 million Information Technology fund, where he was in charge of the Communications Sector.
Since 1995, Yuval has been involved, as an early stage investor and a director, in many young startups, some of which have already gone public or have been acquired by leading multinational companies.He has played an integral role in helping management teams recruit, develop strategies, and establish partnership agreements in many of his investees' companies.
Yuval served and still serves as a board member in multiple private and public companies including Traffix Systems, acquired by F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV), Trivnet, acquired by Gemalto (EPA:GTO), Guardium, acquired by IBM (NYSE:IBM), Radwiz, acquired by Terayon (NASDAQ:TERNE), Oridion Medical, acquired by Covidien (NYSE: COV), cVidya Networks, Oversi Networks, BI Science and OnGage.
Yuval earned his LLB and MBA degrees from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
When not at work, Yuval enjoys Tennis, skiing, traveling and hanging out with his family.
Bobby LentAdvisory Board & Investment Comittee |
Bobby Lent is a Founding and Managing Partner in HillsVen. Hillsven Group is a seed capital venture firm focused primarily on Silicon Valley and Israeli startups. Investments include: Traiana Inc. (acquired in November 2007 by ICAP for $251M), Adify Corporation (acquired in April 2008 by Cox TMI for $300M), Bleacher Report Inc.(acquired in August 2012 by Time Warner for >$200M), ShopStyle Inc. (Merged with Sugar Media), ThreadBox Inc. (formerly - cc:Betty Inc.; Acquired by MySpace), PageOnce Inc., Expensify Inc., LiveFyre Inc, Touch of Modern, Swifto Inc., Ongage, Magneto, Fl3ur, Cyhawk Ventures and TuneWiki Inc.
Yonatan AltmanManaging Partner in APM & Co. |
Yonatan Altman is a Managing Partner at APM & Co. and heads the firm's Corporate, Hi-Tech and Private Equity Department. Mr. Altman advises clients in the fields of life-sciences, clean-tech, Internet, communications, information-technology as well as clients in the manufacturing and services industries, on an array of matters pertaining to mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financings, and investments. He also counsels privately-held and publicly-traded companies with respect to strategic planning and corporate restructuring, and specializes in spin-offs, joint ventures and cross-border commercial agreements.
Ben SilvermanFounder & Chairman in Electus |
Ben Silverman, the Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning producer is the Founder and Chairman of Electus. The company was launched in July 2009, in parternship with IAC, a leading Internet and media company chaired by Barry Diller. At Electus, Silverman has executive produced major network and cable hits, including NBC's "Fashion Star", the "Mob Wives" franchise, and "King of the Nerds" on TBS. Currently, Silverman is in the midst of executive producing serveral new series including "Marco Polo" for Starz, "The Hero," starring Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson on TNT, "Dog and Beth: On the Hunt," a series with Dog the Bounty hunter on CMT, " Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls" on NBC, "I'm Not Dead Yet" at TV Land and more! Prior to launching Electus, Silverman served as Co-Chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios from June 2007 to 2009.