Author: OurCrowd

[Argus in The Financial Times] Israeli tech start-ups find open lane in new automotive world

Sep 13, 2016 | ,

Israel briefly made cars in the 1950s and 1960s: the Sussita, the Carmel and the Sabra, which, unusually, had a cactus for its logo The cars sold poorly, but entered popular myth: Israelis today will tell you they were irresistible to camels, who liked to munch on their fibreglass bodies. Israel lacked — and today still lacks — both the requisite industrial depth and the domestic car market needed to rival the incumbent auto industries of the US, Europe or Japan. Read more on The Financial...

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[Engie in The Financial Times] Israeli tech start-ups find open lane in new automotive world

Sep 13, 2016 | ,

Israel briefly made cars in the 1950s and 1960s: the Sussita, the Carmel and the Sabra, which, unusually, had a cactus for its logo. The cars sold poorly, but entered popular myth: Israelis today will tell you they were irresistible to camels, who liked to munch on their fibreglass bodies. Israel lacked — and today still lacks — both the requisite industrial depth and the domestic car market needed to rival the incumbent auto industries of the US, Europe or Japan. Read more on The Financial...

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[prooV in Business Insider] This guy’s startup is one of the best ideas we’ve heard in a while: helping companies test-drive startups

Sep 11, 2016 | ,

An Israeli startup called prooV is building what it calls the first “proof of concept” platform, which lets an enterprise test-drive a startup’s technology before they sign a purchase order for it. Toby Olshanetsky, founder and CEO of prooV, has spent his 20-year career building enterprise software, mostly for startups, he says. Read more on Business...

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