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  MATERIALS FOR RELEASE: PDF download here Photos and logos ZIP file download here OURCROWD MAKES FAST COMPANY’S LIST OF THE WORLD’S MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANIES, 2016 OurCrowd Places in the Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Israel New York/Jerusalem, February 16, 2016 – OurCrowd, one of the world’s leading equity crowdfunding platforms has made Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list for 2016. Top honorees on this year’s global list include Apple, Alphabet (Google), Slack, Netflix, and Facebook (Instagram), Airbnb, Spotify, GE, Fitbit, Uber, Buzzfeed, Warby Parker, and Huawei. Among the first-time honorees for 2016 are popular consumer brands Taco Bell and Hasbro. The annual ranking honors leading enterprises and rising newcomers that exemplify the best in nimble business and impactful innovation. To produce the 2016 list, Fast Company editors spent a full year gathering and analyzing data on companies around the globe and enlisted machine intelligence software to create topographical maps of innovation across more than 40 sectors of the economy. OurCrowd Founder and CEO Jon Medved said, “We are proud to be named among the top ten companies in...

  MATERIALS FOR RELEASE: PDF download here Photos and logos ZIP file download here mPREST RAISES $20M TO EXPAND INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERICAL IoT SOLUTIONS GE Ventures and OurCrowd lead Series A investment in Iron Dome software  — UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL Jan. 25, 2016 – 8am IST Menlo Park, Calif., and Petach Tikwa, Israel—January 25, 2016—mPrest, a global provider of mission-critical monitoring and control software for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced today that it has raised a $20 million Series A round of funding. The round was led by GE Ventures, the venture arm of GE, and OurCrowd, one of the world’s leading equity crowdfunding platforms. mPrest will use the investment to expand its international presence in the industrial and commercial markets and rapidly scale to meet the soaring needs of the IoT world. mPrest delivers leading-edge software for “connecting the dots” across multiple complex systems of any scale, from a single facility to a multinational corporation. mPrest’s groundbreaking, generic software platform enables organizations to connect any sensor at any time with unparalleled flexibility. Organizations receive real-time situational awareness...

  MATERIALS FOR RELEASE: PDF download here Photos and logos ZIP file download here HONDA OPENS DOOR TO ISRAELI TECH COMMUNITY Honda engages Israeli tech community for the first time at OurCrowd Global Investor Summit Jan. 25th — Silicon Valley/Jerusalem, January 21, 2016 – Seeking new opportunities for collaboration, Honda will formally engage the Israeli tech community for the first time in a plenary address at the OurCrowd Global Investor Summit, to be held January 25th in Jerusalem. Drawn in by mobility start-ups pursuing vehicle intelligence technologies, apps and software, along with several notable exits, Honda executives and engineers from Japan and North America will descend on the two-day summit. Honda has engaged OurCrowd, the world’s leading equity crowdfunding platform, to access its portfolio companies and facilitate introductions to notable innovators and entrepreneurs. “Honda believes that partnering together with entrepreneurs, start-ups, developers and academic institutions will help us develop truly transformational new products,” said Nick Sugimoto, Senior Program Director for Honda Silicon Valley Lab, who will address the Summit in a plenary session on the future of mobility. “Israel...

MATERIALS FOR RELEASE: PDF download here Photos and logos ZIP file download here OURCROWD TO HOST 3,000 FOR GLOBAL INVESTOR SUMMIT IN JERUSALEM Largest investor conference in the history of the city — UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL SAT. JAN. 23, 2016 AT 6PM IST Jerusalem, January 23, 2016 – OurCrowd, one of the world’s leading equity crowdfunding platforms, is expecting to host 3,000 investors, entrepreneurs, corporate partners, and venture capitalists from over 50 countries to its second annual Global Investor Summit scheduled in Jerusalem on Jan. 25th.  The event at Binyanei Ha’uma: Israel’s National Convention Center will be focused on the theme “investing in the future.” Six major multinational corporations – Honda, Coca-Cola Company, Samsung Ventures, Philips, Intuit, GE – will provide a preview of their future plans for innovation together with scores of startup companies in the key areas of mobility/transportation, corporate innovation, health, cyber security, connected world, and mobile communications. Speakers include: Nick Sugimoto | Senior Program Director, Honda Silicon Valley Lab Alan Boehme | CTO, Chief Innovation Officer, Chief Architect & Customer/Commercial CIO, The Coca-Cola Company Gonzalo Martínez de...