“OurCrowd, the Jerusalem-based VC equity crowdfunding platform, has opened an office in Herzliya that will be responsible for the firm’s engineering and product...
Read MoreBoatbound founder Aaron Hall calls Chicago “No. 1 in the demand market” for the peer-to-peer boat sharing platform for good reason. “As it defrosts in Chicago, people want to be on the water,’’ he said. Between the thousands of slips along the Chicago lakefront, the iconic beauty of the lakefront and distinctive downtown skyline, and the multitude of things to do on the water during the boating season, his assertion makes sense. Read more on the Chicago Sun...
Read MoreYAVNE, Israel — June 24, 2016 — drupa 2016 was a major triumph for Highcon, with a staggering number of visitors and widespread interest which resulted in business success that will transform the company — founded only six years ago — by adding a record $42m of orders taken during the show. With 30 machines installed in 15 countries to date, Highcon is on the verge of doubling its installed base within months, delivering dozens of machines to new customers and into 11 new countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. A further 100 sales proposals were issued at the show, many of which will come to fruition as new orders in the coming months. The company will be recruiting new distribution channels, as well as R&D, service and sales personnel to support this rapid growth and new customers. Read more on Printing...
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Since 1996, leading tech news magazine Red Herring annually reviews thousands of candidates for each of its three Top 100 awards (Asia, Europe and the Americas). The Red Herring Award is widely recognized as one of the industry’s more prestigious awards. Each year for the past decade, there has been a strong Israeli presence among the companies nominated for the Red Herring Awards. This year, Israel had a strong showing with 19 companies named winners, including OurCrowd and 2 of our portfolio companies! The Red Herring Top 100 award winners include some of the most exciting Israeli startups that exhibit unparalleled innovation and economic ingenuity. There is no doubt about it: Israel has become a world leader in startup success. Famously titled as the ‘Startup Nation’, Israel has earned international acclaim for its cutting-edge innovations, startups, and research in the fields of science, technology, medicine, and the environment. Check out the OurCrowd representatives within the 2016 Red Herring Europe Top 100 Israeli winners: CropX CropX is an ag-analytics company that has developed the world’s most advanced adaptive irrigation service that enables farmers to harness the power of sensors to optimize irrigation, fertilization, sowing and crop protection in order...
Read MoreEquity crowdfunding is opening up the exclusive world of early-stage startup investment. “Nowadays the smart money is in private companies,” OurCrowd founder and CEO Jonathan Medved tells the audience at WIRED Money 2016. If you’d put money into Microsoft went it first went public in 1986, your investment would be worth 600 times that amount now, but now that rate of increase is very rarely seen on the public...
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