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Call for applications: Your chance for capital and fame @ Israel’s annual startup competition

Call for applications: Your chance for capital and fame @ Israel’s annual startup competition

Nov 24, 2015 | ,

Are you an entrepreneur who lives, sleeps, and breathes your startup? Now is your chance for fame and glory with Starup2, Israel’s annual startup competition. The competition will be broadcast live from the 2016 Global Investor Summit on January 25th in Jerusalem. OurCrowd is hosting the competition together with Bank Hapoalim, the Jerusalem Development Authority and Keshet Broadcasting, and this year’s startup competition is geared towards entrepreneurs with ideas from various fields and sectors, such as hardware, software, cyber, advertising, medicine, energy, agriculture, and more. Does your startup fit the bill? The competition is only open to Israeli startups who have been unable to raise serious funds in the past (under one million dollars), without a set annual income, or with an income of less than $1.5 million in the last year. Any startup that meets the criteria will be vetted by OurCrowdFirst, OurCrowd’s seed fund, which will choose the most compelling from the applicants. Live at the Summit, finalists will pitch and compete for the chance at a $500,000 investment to be considered by OurCrowdFirst, plus the title “crowd favorite” and an award of NIS...

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ElMindA raises $28M, the future of sports, & 4 MIT-honored Israeli innovators [OurCrowd Newsletter]

ElMindA raises $28M, the future of sports, & 4 MIT-honored Israeli innovators [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Nov 23, 2015 |

The latest from the Startup Nation: new funding rounds for Israeli startups; leading Israeli innovators honored for driving the next generation of technological breakthroughs; a live conversation with NFL Hall of Fame star on what’s next in sports tech; and more… Start getting this weekly newsletter via email: Subscribe now Pioneering Israeli neuroscience company, ElMindA, raises $28M Israeli startup ElMindA, which pioneers neuroscience-based technology for analyzing brain network functionality, today announced the completion of a $28 million Series C financing round. Learn more. OurCrowd & Portfolio Companies in the News OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved featured on ABC Australia ElMindA featured in Geektime Cimagine featured in WIRED Borro featured in City A.M. Mark One (Vessyl) featured in The Verge Ubimo featured in Marketing Land Which tech trends are shaping the future of sports? Sign up to join an OurCrowd-hosted live conversation with NFL Hall of Fame running back Curtis Martin, and Darren Heitner, Sports lawyer and Inc. magazine/Forbes contributor, on what’s next in sports tech. Learn more. MIT honors 4 Israelis in annual ’35 Innovators Under 35′ Four Israeli pioneers in their fields — a brain pioneer, cancer visionary,...

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

Nov 23, 2015 | ,

OurCrowd portfolio company ElMindA was featured in The Times of Israel, an English-language news website covering Israel, the region & the Jewish world. ElMindA is the world’s first FDA-cleared neuronal functional assessment tool. ElMindA’s solution uniquely measures how different parts of the brain communicate by uploading measured neural activity into the cloud where proprietary algorithms map out neural association. Fresh from its recent award as one of the 49 most innovative startups in the world by the World Economic Forum, Israeli biotechnology firm ElMindA, developers of the world’s first FDA-approved neural functional assessment tool to visualize serious brain trauma and illnesses, announced last week that it had received $28 million in a Series C financing round. ElMindA had to turn away investors anxious to put their money into what could be the next big Israeli med tech exit, according to investment experts familiar with the firm. ElMindA raised $2,282,318 from OurCrowd investors in July 2015. Read more on The Times of...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Cimagine featured in WIRED

Nov 19, 2015 | ,

OurCrowd portfolio company Cimagine was featured in Wired UK, a popular news site and magazine covering technology, culture, business, and politics. Cimagine hopes to boost sales and increase consumer confidence by providing a mobile platform on which to visualize merchandise three dimensionally in their intended locations. Cimagine provides a markerless augmented reality (AR) visualisation platform for retailers and brands, which enables users to visualise products in life-like 3D, at a click of a button. […] Cimagine was chosen by Forbes, Microsoft and Coca-Cola as one of Israel’s most promising start-ups, and boasts the largest implementation of AR in retail to date with Shop Direct, and the world’s first Endless AR showroom at John Lewis – two of the UK’s largest retailers. Cimagine raised $389,071 from OurCrowd investors in July 2014. Read more on Wired UK...

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