Investors
Universal Ad secured two rounds of financing from highly respected venture capital funds - round A from Walden Israel in April 2005 and round B from Walden Israel, Vertex Venture Capital and WTI in March 2008. For more information about the company, email us at info@universal-ad.com.
Walden Israel is one of Israel's most veteran and best performing venture capital funds. It also one of the first Israeli venture capital funds dedicated to investing in early-stage start-ups. Their investment team comprises experienced entrepreneurs and their international affiliation spans twenty-five years of experience in building over four hundred early-stage companies. The team works closely with its outstanding portfolio of successful companies, concentrating on investment areas of enterprise software and communications.
Vertex Venture Capital, a top-tier israeli vc with $600 million under management, has an experienced multi-disciplinary team of professionals, an impressive track record of exits through m&a and ipo and a strong international investor base. the vertex team excels at identifying and investing in winners and works closely with management in company building, generating business opportunities and leveraging synergies through its extensive global network of financial and industrial leaders. as the israeli vc with the largest number of strategic and financial investors from asia, vertex opens doors in this territory for its portfolio companies to penetrate markets and find partners and customers. vertex was founded in 1997 and invests in high technology companies throughout their early stages of development in the areas of information networking and communications systems, software and components, digital media, enterprise software and greentech.
Western Technology Investment
(WTI)
is a leading provider of debt financing to start-up and emerging growth companies. WTI's strong customer orientation is made possible by the extensive background of our officers and directors in banking, finance, as well as start-up and large company management. Their broad experience is a valuable resource that is frequently utilized by customers.
These generous investments have allowed Universal Ad to invest back into the community through the Tmura fund, the Israeli Public Service Venture Fund. Tmura was founded in 2002 to increase the involvement of the high-tech community in non-profit activity in Israel, with a focus on education and other youth initiatives. Tmura receives donations of equity from (mainly private) Israeli and Israel-related high-tech companies and, upon a liquidity event, allocates the proceeds to education- and youth-related charities in Israel. For more information, please visit www.tmura.org.