Author: OurCrowd

[OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved in EKMH Innovators] Interview: OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved on Crowdfunding, Beyond Meat, Impact Investments, Innovation Ecosystems and the “Israeli Special Sauce”

OurCrowd, a global investment platform which brings VC opportunities to accredited investors worldwide, is the leader in equity crowdfunding. Managed by a team of seasoned investment professionals and led by serial entrepreneur and CEO Jon Medved, OurCrowd vets and selects companies, invests its own capital, and invites its accredited membership of investors and institutional partners to invest alongside in these opportunities. Read...

Read More

In the News: Big news – Stifel and OurCrowd to provide broader access to VC in our biggest US partnership

These past few weeks have been filled with truly exciting events which we are pleased to share with you. In a groundbreaking move to provide broader access to the Venture Capital asset class, OurCrowd and Stifel Financial Corp. signed a major strategic deal, including investment. We’re celebrating our biggest North American institutional partner with tremendous distribution capability to Stifel’s more than 1 million clients through 2,200 financial advisors. We look forward to great things in the coming years with Stifel as a partner! By the way, Bloomberg’s recent Businessweek article – The Big Money in Startups Comes From Investing Before the IPO – supports our mission, exclaiming that “the new IPO is the FPO—the final private offering.” We are also proud to be partnering with Toyota Tsusho Corp., the trading arm of the Toyota Group. Together we can help startups turn into “scaleups” by providing access to Toyota Tsusho’s unrivaled platform that can deploy new technologies and products quickly and effectively in over 120 markets around the world. Startup Nation and beyond BioCatch helps the Royal Bank of Scotland detect...

Read More