Yossi Vardi

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Yossi Vardi is an Israeli investor most famous for being the original investor in ICQ - the first Internet-wide instant messaging system. Vardi has invested in over 50 tech companies in diverse areas of software, energy, Internet, mobile, cleantech, and others.

Vardi has been an active civil servant in Israel through projects involving energy and infrastructure. He also co-founded Alon, an Israeli oil company. Vardi acted as an advisor to the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program on issues of energy in the developing world.

Vardi has received many awards including The Prime Minister Award, The Industry Award, Entrepreneur of the Year (Tel Aviv University), and the CEO!’s Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame from the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization.

Milestones

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  Yossi Vardi invested in Joongel. (10/27/08)
  Posted 10/27/08 at 8:56pm
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  Yossi Vardi invested in BloggersBase. (6/08)
  Posted 1/23/09 at 5:21am
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  Yossi Vardi invested in DoNanza. (2008)
  Posted 6/23/09 at 5:04am
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  Yossi Vardi invested in SemantiNet. (1/08)
  Posted 1/20/09 at 3:36pm
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  Yossi Vardi invested in Answers Corporation. (2008)
  Posted 5/7/08 at 9:28pm
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  Yossi Vardi invested in AllofMe. (11/1/07)
  Posted 11/27/07 at 6:34am
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  Yossi Vardi invested in SeeToo. (10/1/07)
  Posted 11/27/07 at 7:43pm
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  Yossi Vardi invested in Come2Play. (6/07)
  Posted 7/15/08 at 8:55pm
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  Yossi Vardi invested in NuConomy. (4/1/07)
  Posted 2/10/08 at 11:52pm
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  Yossi Vardi invested in ePals. (12/06)
  Posted 2/24/08 at 6:26pm
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  Yossi Vardi invested in FoxyTunes. (2005)
  Posted 4/4/08 at 6:50pm
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  Yossi Vardi invested in SimilarSites.com.
  Posted 7/4/09 at 7:09am
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  Yossi Vardi invested in YouFig.
  Posted 1/13/08 at 12:16am
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  Yossi Vardi invested in Cellogic.
  Posted 9/4/08 at 1:19pm
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  Yossi Vardi invested in MuseStorm.
  Posted 9/23/07 at 3:18pm

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1. TC50 DemoPit Company Joongel Nets Investment for Stealth Product (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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3. Semantic Web Firm SemantiNet Gets $1.7 Million First Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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6. Yossi Vardi invests in allofme (messenger-news.com) [edit]
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