Author: OurCrowd

OurCrowd’s portfolio company Lucid Energy featured in The Guardian

Sep 18, 2015 | ,

OurCrowd’s Portland-based portfolio company Lucid Energy was featured in The Guardian, a leading online news source, content aggregator and blog. Lucid Energy is a renewable energy company that enables managers of large water infrastructure to generate low-cost power by capturing energy embedded in moving water in their pipelines, without disrupting their operation and with no environmental impact. To tackle the high demand water and energy place on one another, micro-hydropower is emerging as a technology with potential. In January, Portland, Oregon became the first city to harness electricity from its water pipes and sell it to the electricity grid. The city is using a technology developed by Lucid Energy, which says it will generate 1,100 MWh of electricity a year – the equivalent of powering 150 homes – from four turbines installed along a 50-foot section of Portland’s water pipes. Lucid Energy raised $1,650,000 from OurCrowd investors in November 2012. Read more on The Guardian...

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[Forbes] 24 Israeli Companies You Should Watch For

Sep 16, 2015 |

“It seems like everybody knows about crowdfunding nowadays — even your parents. But what’s less well-known is equity-crowdfunding. Instead of investing to back a campaign and support a new product, you invest to support a new company and to receive a stake in the company in exchange. OurCrowd was built by seasoned investors and is open only to accredited investors, giving it a more focused...

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OurCrowd & portfolio companies BillGuard, Webydo, Cimagine, Consumer Physics featured in Forbes

Sep 16, 2015 | ,

OurCrowd and four of our portfolio companies — BillGaurd, Webydo, Consumer Physics, and Cimagine — were featured on Forbes, a leading business and finance magazine. Forbes tech contributor Ilya Pozin listed the top 24 Israeli Companies You Should Watch For. Here’s what he had to say about OurCrowd and its portfolio companies: It seems like everybody knows about crowdfunding nowadays — even your parents. But what’s less well-known is equity-crowdfunding. Instead of investing to back a campaign and support a new product, you invest to support a new company and to receive a stake in the company in exchange. OurCrowd was built by seasoned investors and is open only to accredited investors, giving it a more focused approach. BillGuard: In the modern world, credit card fraud and identity theft are unfortunately all too common. BillGuard provides a simple, streamlined solution to help users keep track of all of their credit card activity, along with their credit score. Critically, the service helps users protect themselves against fraud by closely monitoring their activity. BillGuard raised $3,896,064 from OurCrowd investors in August 2014. Webydo: The idea behind Webydo is...

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OurCrowd’s Portfolio Company Freightos featured in TechCrunch

Sep 9, 2015 | ,

Leading technology website, TechCrunch, featured OurCrowd portfolio company Freightos. The company offers a Software as a Service cloud solution for automating pricing and sales in the trillion dollar freight (cargo) industry. Freightos, essentially, is building the Kayak or Expedia for international shippers. Both individual users and freight forwarders can use the platform to search for and filter shipping options by price, time, route, fees involved, or type of transportation. “It’s quite straightforward, and quite analogous to what you’ve seen in other industries,” says [Freightos founder Zvi] Schreiber. “But in this industry, it’s really quite revolutionary.” Freightos raised $550,000 from OurCrowd investors in November 2012 and $110,000 in a follow-on funding round in 2013. Read more on...

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