Author: OurCrowd

OurCrowd’s portfolio company CrediFi featured in the Times of Israel

Dec 7, 2015 | ,

OurCrowd’s portfolio company CrediFi was featured in The Times of Israel, an English-language news website covering Israel, the region & the Jewish world. CrediFi is a data and risk analysis platform enabling greater transparency and insight-driven investment decisions for the multi-trillion dollarCommercial Real Estate finance markets. An Israeli startup is hoping to bring order to one of the most lucrative businesses in the world and one of the most disorganized — the commercial real estate market. And what’s more, said Ely Razin, CEO of CrediFi, which provides the first source of hard data about the industry, his Jerusalem-based start-up consists largely of immigrants from the US and other English-speaking countries. CrediFi raised $334,935 from OurCrowd investors in April 2014 and $888,028 in a follow-on round in March 2015. Read more on The Times of Israel...

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Israel’s emerging tech hubs, Perion buys Undertone for $180M, & 10 startups you should know [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Israel’s emerging tech hubs, Perion buys Undertone for $180M, & 10 startups you should know [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Dec 7, 2015 |

Find out which Israeli startup made an impressive acquisition of a fellow US-based company; explore Israel’s emerging high-tech hubs outside of Tel-Aviv; discover 10 innovative Israeli startups that you are likely to hear about in 2016; and more this week from Startup Nation… Start getting this weekly newsletter via email: Subscribe now Israel’s Perion acquires US ad company Undertone for $180M Israeli marketing software company Perion Network Ltd. has acquired the U.S.-based digital advertising company Undertone in a deal valued at $180 million. Learn more. OurCrowd & Portfolio Companies in the News OurCrowd First featured in Arutz Sheva Consumer Physics and Curiyo featured in Inc. Bizzabo featured in Israel21c Trendlines featured in Crowdfund Insider Covertix featured in Connected World Ubimo featured in MediaPost 10 Israeli startups you should know Inc., a leading monthly publication and website focused on growing companies, listed 10 innovative Israeli startups that you are likely to hear about and encounter in the near future. Learn more. Gal Kalkshtein on promoting entrepreneurship in Israel Serial entrepreneur Gal Kalkshtein discusses his road to success and heading towards the new frontier of innovation, in support...

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Glimpse the Future: Agenda of the 2016 Global Investor Summit

Glimpse the Future: Agenda of the 2016 Global Investor Summit

Dec 3, 2015 |

What does your future phone look like? Your future car? How will the technology powering your future home be funded? Watch a glimpse of the future – what we’ll be discussing at the 2016 Global Investor Summit:   Take a peek at the working agenda for Israel’s largest gathering of top tech innovators, startups, angel investors, VCs, and other industry leaders in Jerusalem. Here’s a glimpse into what you’ll do at the Summit: Discover which companies are developing your future phone, car, home, hospital, and more Get a case study in the power of the crowd and join the first-ever Crowdbuilding Hackathon Turn the tables with lessons from the Mossad about overcoming adversaries Judge Israel’s 2nd annual Startup Competition, a live, broadcasted pitch contest hosted by Bank Hapoalim, the Jerusalem Development Authority and OurCrowd Celebrate the Jerusalem launch of MassChallenge, the world’s largest accelerator …and that’s just part of Day 1. View the full agenda here. For further details about the event and to reserve your seat, apply at summit.ourcrowd.com. Please mark your calendars and join us for the Summit. We look forward...

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Innovation is elementary: The Periodic Table of Israeli Tech

Innovation is elementary: The Periodic Table of Israeli Tech

Dec 2, 2015 | ,

Think you know the chemical makeup of the successful Israeli tech scene? CB Insights data and analytics recently published a periodic table to help visualize the depth and breadth of Israel’s tech scene. The Periodic Table of Israeli Tech features venture capital firms, accelerators and incubators, angel investment groups, crowdfunding. It also exhibits prominent funded Israeli companies in select industry categories, along with notable exits. OurCrowd is honored to be listed in the periodic table under ‘crowdfunding’, the sole company in this list under that category. Additionally, OurCrowd is proud of its five portfolio companies — and one latest investment opportunity — who are listed on the table too in their select industries: Argus Cyber Security, AppDome, Fireblade, Corephotonics, Ubimo, and Parko. Check out the periodic table of Israeli tech below: Want to meet and learn more about OurCrowd’s innovative portfolio companies? Join us at our Global Investor Summit in Jerusalem on January 25th, 2016! Apply now at...

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OurCrowd & portfolio companies Curiyo, Consumer Physics featured in Inc.

Dec 2, 2015 | ,

OurCrowd portfolio companies, Curiyo and Consumer Physics, were featured in Inc., a leading monthly publication and website focused on growing companies. Inc. contributor Joseph Steinberg listed the top 10 Israeli Startups You Should Know. Here’s what he had to say about OurCrowd’s portfolio companies: Consumer Physics: The Scio device made by Consumer Physics is a pocket molecular scanner. It tells you what objects are made out of. The potential for such a device is tremendous: People can obtain nutritional information about food, determine the health of their plants, identify medications, analyze nutritional supplements, etc., simply by scanning the items with the Scio. Seeded by OurCrowd and top tier Silicon Valley VC Khosla Ventures, Consumer Physics raised $3,300,000 from OurCrowd investors in its 2nd round of funding in May 2014. Curiyo: Curiyo lets you search and follow news by topic rather than by person, something quite valuable when one considers that people typically are far more interested in specific topics than in the particular people who share information on them. We see this socially as well: People far more often connect through joint interests rather...

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