Author: OurCrowd

[Freightos in TechCrunch] Logistics startup Freightos lands $25 million in funding from GE Ventures

Mar 29, 2017 |

Freightos, a startup that wants to digitize more of the international logistics process, announced today that it has raised a $25 million Series B extension round led by GE Ventures, General Electrics’ venture capital arm. This brings the total funding raised by Freightos, which was founded in 2012 and is based in Hong Kong, to $50 million. Its initial Series B of $14 million closed in 2015. Read more on TechCrunch...

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[CrediFi in Forbes] NYC real estate lending dropped 17% in 2016

Mar 27, 2017 |

Commercial real estate data startup CrediFi analyzed $180 billion in annual commercial lending for New York City and found that Deutsche Bank was the largest commercial real estate lender in 2016. Germany’s biggest bank inked between $5.5 billion and $6 billion in NYC loans last year. Among Deutsche’s major deals of 2016 was the origination of a $396 million loan to Related Companies to refinance 85 10th Ave.—former Oreo factory, current Google office. Read more on Forbes...

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[Bizzabo in The Huffington Post] From 360-degree live mobile video (with example) to copywriting: A recap from social media marketing world 2017

Mar 27, 2017 |

The event app. Bizzabo, the event platform used, made it easy to see the layout of the event, get information about the speakers, and even follow #SMMW17 on Twitter through the app. But I think many participants would have loved a cleaner calendar feature—a way to easily build out all the sessions they were attending so the details could quickly be pulled up. Read more on The Huffington Post...

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[OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved in Crowdfund Insider] Catching up with OurCrowd Founder & CEO Jon Medved to discuss global equity crowdfunding dynamism

Mar 27, 2017 | ,

Fresh from the most successful OurCrowd Global Investor Summit 2017, Israeli serial entrepreneur and OurCrowd co-founder and CEO, Jon Medved has become one of the most vocal and engaging advocates in the global investment crowdfunding sector. OurCrowd vets and selects opportunities, invests its own capital, and brings companies to its accredited membership of global investors. In the last month alone, Medved made the prominent funding marketplace even stronger, partnering with German energy company innogy and the Shanghai Commercial & Savings Bank, proving that multinational crowdfunding is more than just a possibility. In less than five years, Medved and his OurCrowd team have not only amassed nearly 17,000 accredit investors from over 110 countries, celebrated 13 exits, 2 IPOs and 11 acquisitions, raised over $400M into 110 companies and funds, and vetted 5,500 companies, OurCrowd continues to lead the global equity crowdfunding sector for accredited investors. Read more on Crowdfund Insider...

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