Globes' most promising start-up of 2008: Amobee

The Globes' most promising start-up 2008 is cellular advertising solutions developer Amobee Ltd. The company is managed by Zohar Levkovitz. Its investors inlcude Sequoia Capital Israel, Accel Partners, Cisco Systems, Globespan Capital Partners, Motorola Ventures, Telefonica, and Vodafone Group.

The award was announced at the 12th Annual Journey Conference of "Globes" and Ernst & Young Israel.

InfoGin Ltd. was the runner up and Vascular Biogenics Ltd. was in third place.

"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: