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Doing well by doing good: Impact investing & the OurCrowd Impact Fund

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The heart of social entrepreneurship is developing ideas that can solve problems and turn a profit. The global impact ecosystem is starting to take shape.

Investments can be powerful. When successful, they can benefit both investors and the invested. Money poured into a business that takes off provides job opportunities and helps the economy grow while investors recoup their money and make a profit too. If that is the capital of investing, then why not use it to improve not only the lives of people involved in business, but everybody else as well? 

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In the News: Who’s hungry for FoodTech? We are

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The food industry is GIANT – $12 trillion and growing. The transformation of the food industry is active around us, from tech companies developing foodtech solutions related to composition, like Beyond Meat, as well as supply chain and analytics. Check out my 3-minute interview on CNBC where I talk about why I’m bullish on food companies, and read on below for more tech industry highlights from the week.

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Startup Nation and beyond

Congrats to LED lighting communications infrastructure company, Juganu, on their $23M raise. 

OurCrowd portfolio company CyberMDX’s latest discovery: Flaws in hospital anesthesia and respiratory devices allow remote tampering.

PitchBook’s rank of Israel’s 11 most active VCs – with OurCrowd proudly at the top – see it here.

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Save the Date for 2020 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit!

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February 13, 2020 in Jerusalem

The OurCrowd Global Investor Summit will again host the startup world in Jerusalem, as it gathers for a week of incredible events.  The Summit is the fastest-growing tech conference in the world and will be the largest business event in Israel’s history.

Last year over 18,000 people from 189 countries registered to attend, as entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, corporate executives, investors and others came to the Innovation Nation to meet, learn, do business – and discover the most historic city in the most exciting country in the world.  As Forbes reported, Summit Week in Israel was “the place to be.”

Click here for 2019 Summit highlights

The Summit provides unprecedented insight into the world of startup venture capital, with exclusive exposure to cutting-edge technologies, the entrepreneurs behind them, and the corporate leaders deploying them.  From its unique position within the global startup ecosystem and as Israel’s most active venture investor, OurCrowd brings together in one place and at one time the players who will set the themes and trends for the coming year.

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In the News: NSLComm launches its first satellite 🚀, @doctor.mike, & more

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Congrats! Israeli nano-satellite startup & OurCrowd portfolio company NSLComm successfully launched its NSLSat-1 satellite (via the Soyuz rocket) into space this past Friday.

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Speaking of revolutionary tech, what will our world look like a decade from now? We just released our 2019 Q2 edition of Innovation Insider exploring a realistic look at how startups will change the way we drive, shop, heal, and live.

2019 Q2 Innovation Insider

Startup Nation and beyond

Featured in TechCrunch: Viziblezone, part of OurCrowd’s Labs/02 incubator, wants to make pedestrians more visible to autonomous cars.

Israeli startups raised nearly $600M in June – “Startups have raised nearly $3.4 billion in the first six months of 2019, on course to beat the record $6.4 billion raised by startups in 2018.” 

Congrats to OurCrowd portfolio companies Airobotics and MeMed Diagnostics, featured on the World Economic Forum’s 2019 Technology Pioneers list!

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5 Trends in AI Making an Impact

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From drones delivering medication to rural clinics to smart sensors helping farmers save water, here are the ways artificial intelligence is effecting positive change in the world

Throughout time, depictions of Artificial Intelligence have inspired mixed feelings, driving us to wonder if we truly want intelligent systems in our lives. An evil swarm of robot soldiers set out to destroy humanity (“SKYNET” from Terminator): BAD. A robot that takes care of all of our household needs (“Rosie” from the Jetsons): GOOD. Waking up after getting married only to find out your better half is a robot (“Fembots” from Austin Powers): BAD. A genius sidekick to help your fleet at all times (“Data” from Star Trek): GOOD. The systems we have created in our imagined world showcase our love-hate relationship with the concept of intelligent machines.

But what once existed only in fantasies is quickly being catapulted into the vanguard of our very existence — from unprecedented disaster response and major revolutions in agriculture, to drastic increases in the accessibility of healthcare and mobility. Due to the advent of cloud computing tools, higher performance processing and sensor proliferation, AI has become more affordable and accessible than ever before. Simply put, AI is a system’s ability to interpret data, learn from it, and then use its knowledge to perform certain tasks. Here are five AI trends changing humanity for the better. 

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In the News: Touring Israeli tech with NFL visitor, agtech miracles

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Last week was fruitful across many sectors: Reps from over 40 countries arrived in Israel to discover Israeli agtech miracles; one of our newest agtech portfolio additions Tevel wowed the crowd with its robotic drone fruit picker. Meanwhile, we had the pleasure to introduce NFL star Deshaun Watson to Israel’s sports tech landscape, with a view of Jerusalem. In weather news, various startups are aiming to predict the weather with utmost accuracy – but Israeli-founded ClimaCell is a major player in the “real cloud wars”. Read on for more Israeli startup news.

Startup Nation and beyond

New US-Israel R&D center to get $16M for advancing energy tech – the center will “tackle finding tech solutions to challenges facing the energy, water, cybersecurity and fossil fuel sectors.”

Lemonade: Reinventing renters and homeowners insurance with on-demand service and social responsibility.

“To remain at the head of the pack, or even to survive, businesses need to constantly embrace cutting-edge innovation.” prooV: Removing barriers to speedy innovation.

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In the News: What’s hot in healthtech

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Big news this past week as Zebra Medical Vision received FDA clearance for its AI-powered intracranial hemorrhage detection product, its second FDA approval in a month! Congrats to sugar reduction company DouxMatok on their $22M raise; OurCrowd is proud to take part in this effort to reduce the world’s sugar dependency. data.world is bringing data to the next level with its recent acquisition of Capsenta – read about it here, and find more top news below.

Startup Nation and beyond

New in medical cannabis: Syqe Medical releases its first cannabis inhaler.

The latest on Intel and Israel: The reality of autonomous cars is beginning to feel closer as Intel’s Mobileye plans to launch a trial of robo-cabs next year in Israel. Intel has also announced its accelerator launch in Israel, which aims to give early-stage startups “a unique advantage in their quest to disrupt the future.”

Sweetch on the front lines of disease prevention: Getting healthy with tech.

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How can we use data to fix the world?

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Dr. Kira Radinsky can actually fix the world. At the 2019 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit, eBay’s Chief Scientist and Director of Data Science disclosed how her desire to understand causality between world events led her to develop the ultimate AI data system. Dr. Kira Radinsky’s AI system seems straight out of the future: her algorithm-based technique can not only reposition drugs, it can also predict global calamities in an effort to prevent them.

Data as a means to predict disease outbreaks and riots

Try to picture sorting through every tweet, web search, and article.

Ever.

Kira Radinsky built a system that can process all of that information. But she then wanted to go further. She recognised the power that may lie within data and asked herself, can the data processing system calculate the common denominator between dozens of ebola outbreaks? The system revealed that when people were looking for diamonds and gold, the carriers of Ebola – bats – would migrate. In fact, the latest Ebola outbreak first presented itself in a three year old child who ate uncooked bat bushmeat.

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