Author: OurCrowd

OurCrowd’s portfolio company The Trendlines Group featured in The Times of Israel

Jan 27, 2016 | ,

OurCrowd portfolio company The Trendlines Group was featured in The Times of Israel, an English-language news website covering Israel, the region & the Jewish world. The Trendlines Group establishes, invests in, and develops innovation-based medical and agritech businesses that improve the human condition. [T]op Singaporean investors and business officials, were in Israel to attend the annual company showcase of the Trendlines Group, which runs incubators for early-stage Israeli start-ups in the medical device and agriculture technology sectors. Displaying their wares before an audience of some 500 investors from Israel and around the world were Trendlines portfolio companies such as EdenShield, which is developing pesticides based on herbs and other natural ingredients, MiRobot, which is developing automated milking systems for farms, Steak TzarTzar, which is developing a grasshopper-based meat substitute, and others. The Trendlines Group raised $900,000 from OurCrowd investors in May 2013. Read more on the The Times of Israel...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company mPrest featured in The Times of Israel

Jan 25, 2016 | ,

OurCrowd’s portfolio company mPrest was featured in The Times of Israel, an English-language news website covering Israel, the region & the Jewish world. mPrest is a global provider of mission-critical monitoring and control solutions for the defense, security, utility and Internet of Things (IoT) sectors. Crowdfunding, until now the scraggy little brother of “real” venture capital investing, is all grown up and ready to take its place at the investment table, as is clear from the company it has begun keeping. No less a company than mPrest, the creator of Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense technology, has opted to raise money in a new round with Israeli crowdfunding pioneers OurCrowd. “They have a huge network of potential investors and customers that we feel can help us more than a typical venture capital fund,” said CEO Natan Barak Monday. “For a company like ours it is not a typical move, but one that we feel is good for us.” mPrest raised $14,799,157 from OurCrowd investors in January 2016. Read more on The Times of Israel...

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