Author: OurCrowd

Yesterday, OurCrowd announced the closing of $72 million series C funding round. The announcement generated a lot of buzz and news coverage across various media outlets. We wanted to share some of the results and compiled several of the top news stories for you. Check out our media coverage highlights below: Bloomberg Israel’s OurCrowd Raises $72 Million to Boost Crowdfunding Deals “With $36 million earmarked for OurCrowd’s operations, it’s the largest pure equity investment in a crowdfunding company, according to Crowdnetic, a New York-based research firm.” TechCrunch OurCrowd raises another $72M to build out its equity crowdfunding platform “What’s interesting about OurCrowd — which is based out of Israel — is that helps startups tap into certain sources of funding more directly than they might have done in the past: while a family office might have been an LP at a venture capital fund that backed a startup, now that family office might choose to engage more immediately via OurCrowd’s platform.” Wall Street Journal OurCrowd Raises $72M for Crowdfunding Gambit (PDF version) “Equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has raised a $72 million Series C round, much...