Recently I had the pleasure of visiting FixYa's new Silicon Valley office and catch-up with their CEO Yaniv Bensadon. It is always an amazing experience for me to walk into the office of an Israeli company that made the leap and established Silicon Valley presence. Particularly knowing how challenging and long the journey is for most entrepreneurs. For FixYa it was not different.
FixYa is the first Crowd Sourced Tech Support site that established a live community of users who share their experiences with tech support issues, FixYa offers a solution for every tech support problem, on 800,000 consumer products.
FixYa was one of the 15 companies we selected last year for the first IsraelWebTour. Back in November of 2006 FixYa had already great traction and seed funding from Dr. Yossi Vardi. However,Yaniv was very determined to leverage his participation at IsraelWebTour to find the appropriate VC and launch FixYa's efforts in the US. Following the tour and few introductions and meetings FixYa was able to raise $4 million from Mayfield Fund and Pitango .
Today, Yaniv is focusing on building FixYa's operations in the US and expanding its already growing community of users. FixYa currently has over 3 million unique users and they are planning to grow this number significantly by the end of this year. The focus is currently on building the brand and positioning FixYa as leader in the space.
Additionally you can read update on FixYa here and also a great interview with Yaniv here.
Good luck from IsraelWebTour team.
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