mPortico Teams with Dane-Elec Memory

mPortico Teams with Dane-Elec to Offer the First Universally-Compatible Mobile Entertainment Platform Pre-loaded on Memory Cards

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mPortico raises a total of $4.1m to date
The company has raised a total of $4.1 million to date. Israeli mobile content start-up mPortico Ltd. has closed its second financing round, raising $2.3 million from French venture capital fund Milk Capital.
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Milk Capital Invests $2.3 Million in mPortico
MPORTICO, an Israeli start-up developing next generation mobile content distribution solutions has raised $2.3M B round from MILK CAPITAL, a new Venture Capital & Private Equity firm based in Paris.
 
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Board of Directors

Jacob Ner-David – Chairman of the Board

Jerusalem Capital


Jacob is the Managing Partner of Jerusalem Capital and serves as mPortico’s Chairman. Jacob has been a successful entrepreneur for more than a decade. He has built and managed four companies to profitable exits, raising over $150 million from leading venture capital funds, institutional investors, and strategic industry players. He has created over a billion dollars of shareholder value for his investors. Two of these companies are considered market leaders in the TES sector.

Jacob co-founded and served as Executive Chairman of Double Fusion until October 2005. From 1994 to 1996 Jacob served in various senior management capacities as Founder, CEO, and Executive Chairman of Delta Three, NomadIQ, until its acquisition by Omnisky, Ambient, and TTR Technologies (acquired by Macrovision)

Jacob has strong investment experience, and served as an advisor to JVP Studio, a seed-stage investor and technology incubator. Jacob is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. Jacob serves on the boards of the Jerusalem Foundation, New Israel Fund, Rikma, and the Jerusalem Circus. Jacob lectures (on a volunteer basis) at the Hebrew University and is a frequent speaker on the Israeli High-Tech sector. He received a B.A. from City College of New York, studied English literature at Mansfield College, Oxford, and received a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Lior Lifshitz – Board Member

Jerusalem Capital

In 1999, Lior was founder and CEO of ProSeed Venture Capital Fund, a $14 million fund for investments in seed-stage communication, IT and medical device companies. Previously, Lior was a Portfolio and Asset Manager with the RDT Group, a diversified Israeli operating and holding company. Lior continues to serve as an advisor for seed-stage investments with RDT. Before joining RDT, Lior spent 10 years managing a $220 million portfolio for Ilanot Batucha, an asset management company within Clal Ltd., one of Israel\'s largest investment groups. On the corporate side, in 2002-3, Lior was CEO of Optid Ltd., a seed-stage company in the Electro-Optics sector.

Lior is currently Director of an asset management company held by Mizrahi-Tefahot Bank , Director in Lapidot oil search LTD (a public company listed on the TASE) and was the Chairman of Secured Dimensions Inc., a TES software company which was acquired by Microsoft (MSFT) on January 2007. He received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Tel-Aviv.

Nathanael Eisenberg – Board Member

Milk Capital

 

Mr. Eisenberg is the managing director of Milk Capital. He graduated from the HEC Lausanne Master of Management and Business Administration. Nathanael Eisenberg started his career in the private banking department of Schroders (Geneva) before working as a financial analyst at the Union Bancaire Privée trading room front desk (UBP Geneva).  Nathanael has also worked for the IT Consulting firm Cap Gemini (PAR: CAP) in London.

Following these experiences, Nathanael joined Procter & Gamble (NYSE : PG) in Geneva starting in the Western Europe headquarter where he held Marketing positions managing a portfolio of brands for WE, and then moving to Madrid where he managed key products launches.