Investors

GoldNames completed its seed round of financing with the help of Yazam.com, a provider of services bridging seed-stage, star Internet companies with value-added private, VC and strategic investors. Members of the Yazam.com team have in the past raised equity financing for such extremely successful companies as QXL, Galileo Technology, Creo Products, and PictureVision.

In addition to Yazam.com itself, GoldNames's seed investors include:

• Joseph M. Schell, Head, Global Technology Investment Banking, Merrill Lynch (San Francisco)
• Jonathan Bulkeley, Chairman, QXL.com. Formerly CEO, Barnesandnoble.com; and CEO, AOL United Kingdom (New York)
• Laurence Schreiber, Managing Director, Global Credit Structuring, Deutsche Bank (New York)
• Director, Derivatives, Credit Suisse/First Boston (London)
• Israel IT Venture Fund, L.P. (Tel Aviv)
• Baruch Halpert, Founder, E*Trade Israel (Tel Aviv)
• Rimon Ben Shaul, President & CEO, Clal Industries & Investments LTD. (Tel Aviv)
• Ilan Slasky, CFO, Net2Phone (New Jersey)
• Sholom Y. Menora, President of Tri-United Technologies and MFC Ventures. (Beit Shemesh, Israel)
• David Hager & Adam Milstein, Founders and Principals of Pacific West Management, Real Estate Investment Firm. (Los Angeles)
• Yehoshua Looks, ex-President, International Division of a $1.5 billion retailer (Jerusalem)
• Converge LLC Private Equity - Dan Rudd and Stuart Litwin. (New Jersey)