Author: OurCrowd

Out to enjoy the ride: Q&A with Honda Silicon Valley Lab’s Nick Sugimoto‎

Out to enjoy the ride: Q&A with Honda Silicon Valley Lab’s Nick Sugimoto‎

Feb 18, 2016 |

One of the highlights at OurCrowd’s 2016 Global Investor Summit last month, was when Honda, Samsung, GE, and other major multinational corporation partners, along with global startups, presented the technology that will bring you the future of mobile, the future car, the future of healthcare, the future… world, basically. Opening the “future of…” plenary series was Noaki “Nick” Sugimoto, Senior Program Director of Honda Silicon Valley Lab, presenting on the Future of Mobility. A successful serial entrepreneur, Nick oversees Honda’s advanced information technology R&D in Silicon Valley, as well as global strategic partnerships. Previously, Nick led the corporate venture capital program at Honda, where he invested in a number of innovative startup companies and built strategic R&D partnerships. We asked Nick a few questions about collaborating with Israeli startups, Honda’s vision for the future of mobility, and what his own dream car would look like. The future of mobility: Q&A with Nick Sugimoto OurCrowd: You recently visited Israel, often dubbed the Startup Nation, for the 2016 Global Investor Summit in Jerusalem. What surprised you the most about this country? Nick Sugimoto: Honda has worked closely with innovators in the Startup Nation for years, and...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Neverware featured in The Verge

Feb 17, 2016 | ,

OurCrowd’s portfolio company Neverware was featured on The Verge, an American technology news and media network. The company repurposes obsolete school computers though desktop virtualization to make them function better than they did when newly purchased. The low-cost hardware was easy for school districts with tight budgets to appreciate, but the total savings went beyond the initial purchase. “Schools are all trying to get more hardware into the hands of students, and what they’re discovering is using a Chromebook and the Google infrastructure, the total cost of ownership is 70 percent lower then iOS or Windows,” says Ted Brodheim, who oversees education sales for Samsung, and helped forge a partnership with Neverware. “The cost of managing these complex systems that were really designed for very large enterprises, it just doesn’t lend itself to the school environment as well as Chrome does.” While the economic benefits to schools are now clear, Brodheim says many districts are still passing on Chrome because they are afraid of the switching costs. “They are already struggling to maintain their legacy infrastructure [and] can’t afford to replace...

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The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2016: The Israel list

The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2016: The Israel list

Feb 16, 2016 |

Each year, award-winning tech magazine Fast Company spends months gathering and analyzing data in order to generate its annual report on The World’s Most Innovative Companies. In addition to the noted 50 Most Innovative Companies and the accompanying top 10 companies in various sectors — which included a number of Israeli startups — the magazine recently released a list of the top 10 most innovative companies of 2016 in Israel. The list is a guide to the state of innovation in economy, featuring the businesses whose innovations are having the greatest impacts across their industries and our culture as a whole. Therefore, it’s not surprising to see a representation of companies originating from the Startup Nation. OurCrowd was also named among the most innovative Israeli companies on Fast Company‘s listed for “empowering anyone to become a VC.” The world’s top most innovative Israeli companies in additional categories include Novocure (#16 in Top 50; #1 in Biotech), SolChip (#5 in Energy), Glide (#7 in Video), and Kaltura (#10 in Video) Fast Company’s report lists Israeli companies that are currently at the forefront of business, challenging industry assumptions and exhibiting economic ingenuity. Each company illustrates the power and potential...

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Featuring the Future: Video playlist from the 2016 Global Investor Summit

Featuring the Future: Video playlist from the 2016 Global Investor Summit

Feb 16, 2016 |

In case you somehow missed it, three weeks ago OurCrowd hosted the 2016 Global Investor Summit, Israel’s largest gathering of top tech innovators, startups, angel investors, VCs, and other industry leaders in Jerusalem. Thousands of attendees poured in from 50 countries to meet with 100 global venture and corporate partners, learn about our startup portfolio, and hear from our selection of top panelists and speakers. Were you missing from the crowd of attendees? Or are you nostalgic for all the great conversations on stage about future tech? Fear not! Watch the sessions and panels below on the video playlist, or on OurCrowd’s YouTube channel. The playlist is being updated, so stay tuned for even more video. Watch scenes from the 2016 Global Investor Summit: Rundown of the Playlist: The Future, presented by OurCrowd: Watch samples of the global startups that are building the tech that will power our future. The State of Startup Investing: Welcome to the 2016 Global Investor Summit! OurCrowd Founder & CEO Jon Medved kicked off the day with encouraging words about where the world of startup investing is headed. Honda Accelerator presents…: Video from Honda...

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