Author: OurCrowd

OurCrowd’s portfolio company BillGuard featured in TechCrunch

Mar 10, 2016 | ,

Leading technology website, TechCrunch, featured OurCrowd’s portfolio company BillGuard. The company identifies fraud and “grey” charges, which cost consumers over $25B annually, by analyzing crowdsourcing transaction data from its millions-strong user base. Prosper Marketplace, the marketplace lender focused on refinancing and credit rehabilitation, has re-launched its BillGuard app (acquired last September) under its own brand as Prosper Daily. With the rebranding, the former BillGuard becomes Prosper’s first mobile app and is the company’s first beachhead into what chief executive Aaron Vermut hopes will be a broader suite of mobile products. BillGuard raised $3,896,064 from OurCrowd investors in August 2014. Read more on...

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Intel hitting it out of the park, acquires OurCrowd’s portfolio company Replay Technologies

Intel hitting it out of the park, acquires OurCrowd’s portfolio company Replay Technologies

Mar 9, 2016 |

Game. Set. Match. We’re excited to share that earlier today Intel announced its acquisition of OurCrowd’s portfolio company, Replay Technologies. We are delighted with today’s news about the Intel acquisition of Replay Technology. This is good news for Replay and its investors and for Intel. We believe that together Replay and Intel will create even more excitement in the fast growing area of sports technology.” ~ OurCrowd Founder & CEO, Jon Medved Back in January, at CES 2016, Intel had announced several sports-oriented collaborations, including Replay Technologies, as a testament to the company’s growing interest in the digitization of sports. Intel states that it is especially excited about how data is re-inventing the way people consume and interact with sports media. Now, Intel is taking the next step in its collaboration with Replay Technologies, stating that: Together, we will scale this new category for sports entertainment that we call immersive sports, which is attracting the attention of leagues, venues, broadcasters and fans. Immersive sports requires the high-performance computing Intel is known for, and it’s also data driven – fueling the continued build out...

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The million-dollar question: What kind of angel investor are you?

The million-dollar question: What kind of angel investor are you?

Mar 8, 2016 | ,

As an angel investor, you already likely know (or soon will) that there is a long list of young technology companies and enthusiastic entrepreneurs with brilliant ideas, ready to pitch to you in the hopes of securing an investment. For example: OurCrowd screens at least 200 companies a month before we choose who to meet, and of those, the 2-4% to invest in and present to our accredited investor community. In addition, we have our own set of criteria for who and what we’ll offer as investment opportunities. So… how do you identify investments? How do you choose which company’s deck to review, which CEO to meet with? Most likely, as an angel investor, you fit a certain type. Knowing what drives you to invest in a particular startup may help you consolidate the time and energy that goes into your investing strategy. Stage Most angel investors are interested in seed or early-stage companies. Certainly, growth-oriented companies are the ones in most need of angel funding, as VCs typically invest when a company already shows long-term growth potential. But if you are an investor...

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[BioCatch in Biometric Update] BioCatch granted U.S. patent for user identity detection

Mar 5, 2016 |

BioCatch recently announced that the U.S. Patent Office granted the company a new patent which detects user identities on electronic devices. The patent outlines a method of detecting a user based on a motor-control loop model. The method includes: determining user identity vis-a-vis monitoring pointing device dynamics and gestures of the user, based on monitored dynamics and gestures, thereby estimating parameters that characterize a sensorimotor control loop model of the user. The method outlined then store in a database a record indicating that the user is associated with the parameters that characterize the sensorimotor control loop model of the user. Read more in Biometric...

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