Author: OurCrowd

How a trip to buy a juicer led to making the world a better place – and other stories behind the 2019 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit

Ran Krauss went to an electronics store to buy a juicer but a drone caught his eye and he went home with that instead.  Pretty soon, he fine-tuned his drone skills and eventually formed an automated industrial drone company called Airobotics.  OurCrowd invested in it and Airobotics is now revolutionizing aerial inspection, security and emergency response. Like Ran and his drones, many of our startups are disruptive. In fact OurCrowd itself turned the tables on traditional venture capital, opening up startup investing to a global crowd. So it makes sense that the annual OurCrowd Global Investor Summit is not just a standard conference – and this year it will be even more engaging, more entertaining, more thought-provoking – and ultimately more productive. Below we explore seven reasons why this Summit is different from all other summits. 1.Unlike other business events we don’t just do panels We aim to provide real insight while also being interesting and compelling. Our 21 breakout sessions break the molds. “Two Truths and a Lie,” where five masters in the VC world play an interactive game...

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How a trip to buy a juicer led to making the world a better place – and other stories behind the 2019 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit

Ran Krauss went to an electronics store to buy a juicer but a drone caught his eye and he went home with that instead.  Pretty soon, he fine-tuned his drone skills and eventually formed an automated industrial drone company called Airobotics.  OurCrowd invested in it and Airobotics is now revolutionizing aerial inspection, security and emergency response. Like Ran and his drones, many of our startups are disruptive. In fact OurCrowd itself turned the tables on traditional venture capital, opening up startup investing to a global crowd. So it makes sense that the annual OurCrowd Global Investor Summit is not just a standard conference – and this year it will be even more engaging, more entertaining, more thought-provoking – and ultimately more productive. Below we explore seven reasons why this Summit is different from all other conferences. 1.Unlike other business events we don’t just do panels We aim to provide real insight while also bein interesting and compelling. Our 21 breakout sessions break the molds, for example: “Two Truths and a Lie,” where five masters in the VC world play an...

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