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Pitango is one of Israel’s leading venture capital firms. Now in our Fourteenth year, we have helped cultivate over 100 companies in seed, early and expansion stage in a diversified range of technology sectors. We manage funds in excess of $1.3 billion in committed capital from well-established international investors from our offices in Israel and the Silicon Valley. Pitango, through its team of investment professionals, has earned a solid reputation for nurturing innovation and working hand-in-hand with entrepreneurs in building sustainable and successful businesses.

Pitango News
February 11, 2010
Oracle® Buys Convergin
December 14, 2009
Alcon(NYSE:ACL) Acquires Optonol
December 10, 2009
Pageonce Closes $6.5M in Funding led by Pitango Venture Capital
November 30, 2009
Broadcom acquires Dune Networks
November 23, 2009
WinBuyer Closes $6.9 Million in Series A Investment Led by Pitango Venture Capital
August 30, 2009
BPT Closes $12 Million in Series B Financing Led by Pitango Venture Capital & U.S. Venture Partners
August 4, 2009
WeFi Secures Round B Funding led by Pitango Venture Capital & Lightspeed Venture Partners
June 30, 2009
Neebula Closes $5 Million in Series A Financing Led by Pitango Venture Capital and Genesis Partners
June 2, 2009
LifeBond Raises $8m in Second Financing Round
February 23, 2009
Ventor Acquired by Medtronic
December 22, 2008
Provigent Continues to Accelerate Growth – Secures $10 Million in Fifth-Round Funding
November 11, 2008
Pitango invests $10 Million in Convergin
September 23, 2008
OpTier Raises $63M in Fourth Round of Funding
August 13, 2008
BrainsGate closes a $27.5 million financing round led by Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation (JJDC), the Johnson & Johnson venture capital arm
July 28, 2008
Celeno Raises $16M in Round C of financing - led by Cisco
April 30, 2008
Pitango leads WorkLight's $12 Million Series B Round
April 22, 2008
Red Bend Software secures $10 Million in funding to meet growing market demand for Mobile Software Management
March 10, 2008
Ventor closed $13.35 million in C Round financing
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Portfolio News
February 16, 2010
Worklight introduces Android Mobile Application Platform for Secure Business
February 16, 2010
Pythagoras Solar Unstealths at Israel’s Eilat; Going after the BIPV market, not rooftops
February 11, 2010
Oracle® Buys Convergin
January 28, 2010
Comsys Mobile completes Clearwire WiMAX™ iIOT at AT4 wireless labs
January 26, 2010
dbMotion Achieves Certifications at Annual Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Connectathon
January 26, 2010
dbMotion Achieves Certifications at Annual Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Connectathon
January 4, 2010
WorkLight Named a Finalist for the Red Herring 100 Global Award
December 14, 2009
Alcon(NYSE:ACL) Acquires Optonol
December 10, 2009
dbMotion Selected to Support Manitoba’s EHR Project
November 30, 2009
Broadcom Acquires Dune Networks
November 9, 2009
D-Pharm Enters into Collaboration with Wanbang Biopharmaceuticals to Increase the Potential Market for its Stroke Drug-Candidate DP-b99
November 4, 2009
WorkLight Launches Cloud-Based Financial Widget Platform
November 3, 2009
Medical Device Daily :superDimension's iLogic locates lung spots previously unreachable
November 2, 2009
dbMotion Sets Up Asia-Pacific Headquarters
August 30, 2009
BPT Closes $12 Million in Series B Financing Led by Pitango Venture Capital and U.S. Venture Partners
August 4, 2009
WeFi Secures Round B Funding To Expand R&D, Marketing, and Business Partnerships
August 4, 2009
RADWIN’s Wireless Broadband Solutions Chosen by Chile's Ministry for Traffic Surveillance
June 30, 2009
Neebula Closes $5 Million in Series A Financing Led by Pitango Venture Capital and Genesis Partners
June 9, 2009
Aaron Mankovski Elected Chairman of Israel Venture Association (IVA)
June 2, 2009
LifeBond Raises $8m in Second Financing Round
June 1, 2009
BioLineRx Announces Positive Preliminary Results From the Phase I/II Trial of BL-1040, the First Injectable Device Addressing Pathological Cardiac Remodeling
May 19, 2009
WeFi opens WiFi data-heavy app store
April 28, 2009
Inotek Pharmaceuticals’ Novel Glaucoma Candidate, INO-8875, Selected for Presentation at the ARVO 2009 Annual Meeting
April 2, 2009
OptimalTest's Global Test Operations Software wins 2009 ‘BEST IN TEST’ Award
April 1, 2009
SAI Technology announce long-term strategic partnership with Comsys Mobile
March 25, 2009
Industry Experts Highlight Key Drivers for Web 2.0 Banking In 2009
March 3, 2009
Ness Technologies (NASDAQ: NSTC) Uses WorkLight to Secure Social Media for Improved SAP® Business Processes
February 23, 2009
Medtronic Acquires Ventor for $325 Million
January 8, 2009
WeFi voted the ‘Forum Nokia EMEA Application of the Year 2008’
January 7, 2009
WorkLight reveals ‘Web 2.0 for business’ market trends in new report
January 6, 2009
Comsys’ ComMAX CM1125 baseband processor enables ECS EliteGroup S370 Personal Internet Communicator for seamless Mobile WiMAX/GSM-EDGE operation
December 22, 2008
Provigent Continues to Accelerate Growth – Secures $10 Million in Fifth-Round Funding
December 15, 2008
TransPharma Receives European CE Mark Approval for its Transdermal Drug Delivery Device
December 15, 2008
FixYa to judge CES 2009 Best Gadgets
December 3, 2008
We-Fi S60 software selected as 2008 Forum Nokia EMEA Application of the Year
November 11, 2008
Convergin secures $10M in growth stage financing
September 23, 2008
OpTier Raises $63M in Fourth Round of Funding
August 25, 2008
McAfee Validates ForeScout to be Interoperable through Security Innovation Alliance (SIA) Program
August 13, 2008
BrainsGate closes a $27.5 million financing round led by Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation (JJDC), the Johnson & Johnson venture capital arm
August 2, 2008
Frost & Sullivan Honours TransPharma Medical for its Innovative ViaDerm Drug Delivery System
July 28, 2008
Cisco leads Celeno's $16M Round C of financing
July 28, 2008
RADWIN Chosen by ALROSA, Russia's Largest Diamond Manufacturer
July 17, 2008
WorkLight Selected by AlwaysOn as an AO Global 250 Winner
July 16, 2008
BioLineRx's BL-1040 Named One of 10 Most Promising Cardiovascular Projects by Windhover
July 15, 2008
RADWIN Chosen by Industriya Svyazi, Leading Service Provider in CIS
July 1, 2008
IRIS Belgian Hospital Network Chooses dbMotion to Improve Patient Care with Enterprise-wide Interoperability Platform
July 1, 2008
SuperDimension closes $22 Million financing
June 25, 2008
RADWIN Opens Local Office in Brazil
June 18, 2008
Inotek Commences Phase 1 Trial in Glaucoma with Selective Adenosine 1 (A1) Agonist
June 18, 2008
Voltaire Powers World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer for NNSA’s Los Alamos
June 10, 2008
WorkLight Announces Strategic Relationship with Microsoft to Bridge Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Consumer Web 2.0
June 4, 2008
Worklight Survey: Customers Seek Secure Banking with Web 2.0 Tools
June 1, 2008
fring releases an updated version of fring for iPhone. This version while designed for the iPhone is also addressing issues in the iPodTouch
May 28, 2008
Cisco and AeroScout Collaborate to Deliver Context-Aware Mobility
May 21, 2008
Comsys wins Best of WiMAX World EMEA 2008 Award for ComMAX ExpressCard/34 Reference Design Platform
May 12, 2008
Voltaire Presents 94% YoY Revenue Growth in Q1 2008
May 7, 2008
Wrigley Deploys New Flavor of RFID Solution With AeroScout and Cisco Technology
May 7, 2008
Voltaire (NASDAQ: VOLT) Selected By Novell to Deliver InfiniBand Support to Novell Customers
May 7, 2008
Voltaire Announces Availability of Customer Support for OFED on any InfiniBand Fabric
May 5, 2008
Ergo® In Demand Deploys Mercado Ignition OnDemand™ – Experiences Record Conversion Rate Improvement
April 30, 2008
Best Buy, Geek Squad partners with FixYa to offer free online tech support
April 30, 2008
Pitango leads WorkLight's $12 Million Series B Round
April 29, 2008
RFID Journal: Glass Fabricator Increases Visibility With AeroScout's Wi-Fi-based active tags
April 22, 2008
Kilopass Non-Volatile Memory Technology Embedded in 15 Million Units


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Enter Rami Beracha's Blog

Please check out what Rami Beracha, one of the Managing General Partners of Pitango has to say about Venture Capital, business and life in general!

Download here: The Basic Responsibilities Of VC-Backed Company Directors
By: Reference from Aaron Mankovski's lecture @The Israel Management Center 23.9.09
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