Author: OurCrowd

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

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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[PRESS RELEASE] UOB Partners with OurCrowd to Provide Equity Crowdfunding in Asia

Singapore/Jerusalem, March 3, 2016 –  United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) today announced Asia’s first strategic partnership with a leading global equity crowdfunding platform, OurCrowd. It pairs the Bank’s strengths and depth of experience in serving entrepreneurs as well as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the region with OurCrowd’s expertise in investing in some of the world’s most promising startups through equity crowdfunding. Read more...

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[CNBC] Singapore’s UOB and Israeli crowdfunding company team up

Singapore-based United Overseas Bank’s (UOB) head of Group Channels and Digitalisation, Janet Young, told CNBC the bank wants to help start-ups in the region by connecting their ideas with “smart money across the world.” UOB will invest $10 million in an Israel-based equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd, where start-ups can seek investments from a large number of investors, and offer, in return, a stake in their...

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