Author: OurCrowd

OurCrowd and 18 Israeli startups win 2016 Red Herring Awards

OurCrowd and 18 Israeli startups win 2016 Red Herring Awards

Jun 23, 2016 |

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...

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[Wired] How to make your fortune from startups with OurCrowd

Jun 22, 2016 |

Equity 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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[The Times] Don’t talk the talk on funding, walk the walk

Jun 22, 2016 |

Britain is said to be a world-beater when it comes to equity crowdfunding, so how is it that an Israeli platform appears to be leading the way in the industry? Judged on arguably the most important measure of success — providing returns to investors — the Jerusalem-based Our Crowd has stolen a march on Crowdcube and Seedrs, the British platforms that pioneered crowdfunding about five years...

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[Global Kinetics in DOTmed.com] National Parkinson Foundation and Global Kinetics commence clinical trial to study impact of KinetiGraph use in patient care

Jun 22, 2016 |

Melbourne, Australia & Miami, FL—June 22, 2016—Global Kinetics Corporation, developer of the Personal KinetiGraph (PKG) mobile health technology for the management of patients with Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders, and the National Parkinson Foundation (NPF) today announced a clinical research collaboration to study the impact of continuous objective measurement of movement in patients with Parkinson’s disease using the Personal KinetiGraph (PKG) Movement Recording System. Read more on...

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Sharing is Caring: From Ownership to Collaborative Consumption in a Sharing Economy

Sharing is Caring: From Ownership to Collaborative Consumption in a Sharing Economy

Jun 22, 2016 |

Airbnb and Uber may have become household terms, but they are far from being the only successful players in the sharing economy, also known as the gig economy, the peer economy and collaborative consumption – terms that refer to technology companies that enable individuals to rent out their under-used assets or skills. Companies like Chegg (homework help), WeWork (office sharing), Lyft (ride sharing), TaskRabbit (household errands), SoBi (bike sharing), Prosper (peer-to-peer lending), Boatbound (boat sharing), Zipcar (car sharing) and Etsy (a handmade marketplace) – as well as “Golden Oldie” eBay – are just some of the noteworthy names in the sharing space. The sharing economy has developed to cover a wide variety of core verticals, the primary ones being transportation, real estate, goods, and money, but that also has seen interesting developments in areas like utilities, health, food, and the corporate arena. But what makes the sharing economy significant, and why is it growing so fast? Part of the answer is that it brings together strangers by mobilizing technology, markets, and crowdsourcing capabilities, which creates a novel way of doing...

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