Author: OurCrowd

OurCrowd’s portfolio company Consumer Physics featured in Wired UK

Aug 5, 2015 | ,

OurCrowd’s portfolio company Consumer Physics was listed as one of Europe’s hottest startups in 2015 by Wired UK, a popular news site and magazine covering technology, culture, business, and politics. Consumer Physics has developed the world’s first affordable molecular sensor – the SCiO – that fits in the palm of your hand. Tel Aviv is where the money is. The startup nation became the exit nation in 2014, with Israeli tech sales and IPOs hitting $15 billion (£9.5bn) according to analysis by PriceWaterhouseCoopers. ### Consumer Physics wants to build a molecular map of the world. Founded by Dror Sharon and Damian Goldring in 2011, it makes the $250 USB-sized SCiO molecular spectrometer that can identify the chemical make-up of objects. It raised $2.7m on Kickstarter, and says it will be ready to ship its first SCiO this autumn, with 1,000 developers signed up. 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. Read more on Wired...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company MorphiSec featured in Business Insider

Aug 5, 2015 | ,

OurCrowd portfolio company MorphiSec was featured in Business Insider, an American business and technology news website. MorphiSec has developed a cyber-security solution that morphs programs in order to make them invisible. Dudu Mimran is the co-founder of an Israeli security startup called Morphisec that is creating a super-secure version of Microsoft Windows like “Microsoft should be doing” he tells Business Insider. There’s reason to believe him. In addition to his startup, he’s also the CTO of Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories in Israel. And he’s the chief security officer of Cyber Security Research Center at Ben-Gurion University. MorphiSec raised $1,220,510 from OurCrowd investors in March 2015. Read more on Business...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company CrediFi featured in CNBC

Aug 4, 2015 | ,

OurCrowd’s portfolio company CrediFi was featured on CNBC. CrediFi is a data and risk analysis platform enabling greater transparency and insight-driven investment decisions for the multi-trillion dollar Commercial Real Estate finance markets. “Big data is making the commercial real estate industry more transparent,” said Ely Razin, CEO of CrediFi, a big data platform for the commercial real estate finance market. “It becomes a partner to the players to the community, whether they’re brokers, lenders, investors or owners.” In commercial real estate finance, number crunching from public and private data sources is already helping potential investors make better decisions. CrediFi raised $334,935 from OurCrowd investors in April 2014 and $888,028 in a follow-on round in March 2015. Read more on...

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Israel’s hot startup scene, WhatsApp for the deaf, & 12 impossible ideas turned into reality [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Israel’s hot startup scene, WhatsApp for the deaf, & 12 impossible ideas turned into reality [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Aug 3, 2015 |

The latest from the Startup Nation: the hottest startups in Israel; Glide’s video messaging app a huge hit among America’s hearing impaired; 12 impossible ideas that Israelis turned into reality, and more… Start getting this weekly newsletter via email: Subscribe now How Israel’s hot startup scene is fostering several unicorns On a recent trip to the Silicon Wadi (also known as Tel Aviv), entrepreneur and investor John Rampton was amazed to meet some brilliant entrepreneurs who are shaping how we do things online. In an Inc. Magazine article, John features some of the hottest startups in Israel that are creating some of the fastest growing companies on the planet; startups he believes have a bright future as well as a potential billion-dollar valuation. Learn more. OurCrowd & Portfolio Companies in the News  Webydo & Bizzabo featured in Inc. OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved featured in Times of Israel MUV Interactive & ReWalk featured in Israel21c Webydo featured in The Jerusalem Post Nextpeer featured in TechCrunch Freightos featured in The Loadstar A startup from Israel has accidentally created “WhatsApp for the deaf” When Jonathan...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Nextpeer featured in TechCrunch

Jul 28, 2015 | ,

Leading technology website, TechCrunch, featured OurCrowd portfolio company Nextpeer, which has developed a platform that allows any iOS developer to easily integrate a first-class multiplayer experience into their games. Viber, the messaging app with 600 million+ users acquired last year by Japan’s Rakuten for $900 million, is today making its first acquisition, specifically aimed at building out its new games business. It is paying $9 million for Nextpeer, a social gaming startup based in Israel that offers games developers an SDK to incorporate social gaming features into their apps. Rakuten says the SDK and related services are staying online and will be expanded and integrated to work with Viber’s platform. All 12 employees of Nextpeer will join Viber, effective immediately. Nextpeer raised $325,000 from OurCrowd investors in December 2012, $350,000 in its 2nd round of investment in March 2013 and $660,000 in its 3rd round of investment in January 2014. Read more on...

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