Globes said other Israeli life sciences companies were also planning their US initial public offering, including Kamada, Alcobra and Home Skinovations.

Founded in 2007, Tradoria was owned by venture capital firm Seventure Partners (reported at 24 %), DuMont Venture (about 19 %) and the European Founders Fund of the Samwer brothers (about 11 %).

DuMont Venture and CatCap had bought into Solegro, which was founded by Nils Regge, in March 2010.

DuMont had invested in GimiGames in July 2009.

DuMont Venture, the corporate venturing unit of Germany-based media group M DuMont Schauberg, has said Farbflut is an exit for it.

In March 2010, Avaak raised $10m in its series B round from Qualcomm Ventures and venture capital firms Trinity Ventures, Leapfrog Ventures and InterWest Partners.

Nokia-backed online advertising services company Rocket Fuel has reportedly selected Credit Suisse and Citigroup to lead its planned initial public offering later this year.