I’m helping a friend, who happens to be a private investor, find some interesting opportunities.

Scope of operation is pretty much blue sky, but there is a preference for “money making machines”. This however does not include “eye-ball” business. Meaning, if you’re business model is slapping on some AdSense against traffic, then don’t bother. Traction of any sort is always nice, but not a must.

A single investment will range from a few hundred thousand dollars, to no more than $2M. This can be a single investor deal, or part of a group.

If your start-up falls under the description above email me at: roi.carthy@gmail.com

Yoav Leitersdorf of YLVentures and American investor Robert Goldberg are in Tel-Aviv, seeking startups with funding needs.

They’re setting up meetings for the first half of this week so you need to move fast…

If you want to meet them, email me and I’ll help in making the connection.

IVC is reporting that 19 seed companies received funding in excess of $50M in the past fiscal quarter. This is up from $14M in 2Q06.

Of the the 19 companies, 41% were Communications related, and 22% were from the Internet space.

The IVC press release is available as a PDF, here.