Author: OurCrowd

Voices of the industry: Speakers announced for Global Investor Summit 2016

Voices of the industry: Speakers announced for Global Investor Summit 2016

Jan 12, 2016 |

In just under two weeks, OurCrowd will host its 2016 Global Investor Summit, Israel’s largest gathering of top tech innovators, startups, angel investors, VCs, and other industry leaders in Jerusalem. The conference will open on January 25th with welcoming words by OurCrowd Founder and CEO Jon Medved, as well as special guests from around the world of innovation. Watch how Honda, Samsung, GE and others, along with global startups, are gearing up the technology that will bring you the future of mobile, the future car, the future of healthcare, the future… world. Throughout the day attendees will hear from a selection of tech leaders, entrepreneurs, VCs and more across panels, keynotes and more intimate meetings. The list of newly-announced speakers includes: Noaki “Nick” Sugimoto Senior Program Director, Honda Silicon Valley Lab Nick Sugimoto is the Senior Program Director of Honda Silicon Valley Lab (www.hondasvl.com), the open innovation lab of global Honda R&D based in Mountain View, California. Nick oversees Honda’s advanced information technology R&D in Silicon Valley, as well as, strategic partnership globally.  Previously, Nick led the corporate venture capital program at Honda...

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[Replay Technologies in eWeek] Intel Shows Off the Reach of Its Technologies at CES

Jan 6, 2016 |

Intel is using CES 2016 this week to further prove that its silicon technologies aren’t just for PCs and servers anymore. Company CEO Brian Krzanich at the same event last year introduced Curie, the tiny development platform for wearable devices like smartwatches, bracelets and eyewear and sensors that help make up the Internet of things (IoT). At CES this year in Las Vegas, Krzanich announced a broad array of partnerships with such companies as ESPN, Red Bull, New Balance and Oakley that showcase myriad ways that Intel technologies—from Curie to the company’s RealSense 3D cameras—can be used in a wide array of smart and connected devices. Read more in...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Replay Technologies featured in The Wall Street Journal

Jan 6, 2016 | ,

Leading business and finance website, The Wall Street Journal, featured OurCrowd’s portfolio company Replay Technologies. Free Dimensional Video (freeD), developed by Replay Technologies, provides sports fans with an immersive real-life viewing experience with a vision of true virtual reality sports viewing. Intel announced sports-oriented collaborations at the Las Vegas event with brands that included ESPN, New Balance, Red Bull Media House and the eyewear maker Oakley. […] The company said it is working with Replay Technologies to create instant three-dimensional models of sporting events like basketball games, allowing viewers to circle the action and view it from any angle. Replay Technologies raised $2,136,296 from OurCrowd investors in December 2015. Read more on the...

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