Author: OurCrowd

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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Beyond tech: Why investors are bullish about internet startups

Beyond tech: Why investors are bullish about internet startups

Dec 1, 2015 | ,

In 2013, two American graduate school dropouts started a car-rental business in India with seven vehicles. Now, two years later, the company has a fleet of 1,800 cars. A seeming success by anyone’s standards, and for Western consumers, a seemingly traditional business: car rental. One more detail: the company, Zoomcar, is an internet startup, meaning users make reservations online or via a mobile application, then pick up the vehicles at numerous locations, or have them delivered to their doorsteps. Zoomcar illustrates how a growing number of startups do not rely on the kind of high-tech, often hard-to-understand technology requiring years of development. Increasingly, internet startups seek to disrupt markets rather than disrupt technology itself – and many are seeing wild success. According to a recent list from the Wall Street Journal, five of the top ten unicorns (tech startups valued at more than $1 billion) fit this category. And they can be great investments, offering opportunities to capitalize on the ever-changing (and sometimes for newcomers, intimidating) tech sector. The most well-known standouts in this sector include online accommodation marketplace...

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Another Israeli IPO, turning sci-fi into fact, & Israel’s bitcoin revolution [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Another Israeli IPO, turning sci-fi into fact, & Israel’s bitcoin revolution [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Nov 30, 2015 |

The latest from the Startup Nation: another exciting exit from the Israeli high-tech scene as The Trendlines Group goes public on SGX; amazing innovations and technologies turning science fiction ideas into reality; Meni Rosenfeld discussing Israeli-made tech behind the global bitcoin revolution; and more… Start getting this weekly newsletter via email: Subscribe now The Trendlines Group launches IPO on the Singapore Stock Exchange Israeli technological incubator & OurCrowd portfolio company The Trendlines Group went public on the Singapore Stock Exchange. Trendlines develops early stage companies in the medical and agricultural sectors. Learn more. OurCrowd & Portfolio Companies in the News Consumer Physics featured in Times of Israel ElMindA featured in Times of Israel Borro featured in Mortgage Introducer How Israeli tech makes science fiction into fact, on display The science fiction of yesterday is the science fact of today – and some of those made-in-Israel science facts were on display last week at the Israeli headquarters of EMC in celebration of Global Innovation Day. Learn more. Meni Rosenfeld on the Israeli-made tech behind the bitcoin revolution Digital currency still struggles with an image problem,...

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