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Izhar Armony

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Areas of greatest interest

Mobility (software, services, media)

Open source and SaaS

Intellectual property

Track Record

Virtusa – IPO, 2007 (NASDAQ: VRTU)
iPhrase - acquired by IBM, 2005
ThinQ - acquired by Saba Software, 2005
Yantra - acquired by Sterling Commerce, 2005
Guardent - acquired by Verisign, 2004
Oberon - acquired by OnDisplay, 2000
iBasis - IPO, 1999, (Nasdaq: IBAS)

Past Lives

VP Marketing, Onyx Interactive, a computer-based training company in Israel

Captain, Israeli Army

What he does for fun

Compete in long-range, off-road rally races in places like the Gobi desert and the Sahara

Joined CRV

1997

Education

MBA, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania

MA, Cognitive Psychology, University of Tel Aviv

Current Projects
Updates

Blog

Links

Press

  • 02/01/2010

    RPX in BusinessWeek: Tech Giants’ New Way to Thwart Patent Suits   more

  • 11/04/2009

    Intellectual Ventures on 20/20   more

  • 07/23/2009

    Index Ventures Joins Kleiner Perkins and Charles River in RPX Series B   more

  • 02/02/2009

    Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick visits Conduit Labs   more

  • 12/04/2008

    Vlingo on CNET: Vlingo one-ups Google with a better voice-powered iPhone app   more

  • 09/26/2008

    Vlingo in New York Times: Don’t Make Your Fingers Do The Work. Talk To Your…   more

  • 08/12/2008

    The Idea Factory   more

  • 06/13/2008

    BusinessWeek demonstrates Yahoo’s oneSearch, a service powered by vlingo that searches the Web based on…   more

  • 04/02/2008

    Vlingo Secures $20 Million in Series B Financing Led   more

  • 04/02/2008

    Vlingo Provides Voice Recognition for the Yahoo! oneSearch Mobile Search Service   more

  • 01/27/2008

    The Coming Wave of Gadgets That Listen and Obey - Vlingo in the New York…   more

  • 08/03/2007

    Virtusa Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering   more

  • 02/27/2007

    iSkoot Raises $7 Million in Series B Financing   more

Events

  • 02/23/2010

    Izhar will be on a panel “Investing in the IP Marketplace” at IBF’s Corporate Venturing & Innovation Partnering Conference (Newport Beach, CA)    more