Author: OurCrowd

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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OurCrowd & portfolio companies Webydo, Bizzabo featured in Inc.

Jul 27, 2015 | ,

OurCrowd and two of its portfolio companies, Webydo and  Bizzabo, were featured in Inc., a leading monthly publication and website focused on growing companies. In the article, entrepreneur and investor John Rampton highlights “some of the hottest startups in Israel that are creating some of the fastest growing companies on the planet.” Here’s what he had to say about OurCrowd and its portfolio companies: OurCrowd, the world’s leading equity based crowdfunding platform for accredited investors, is democratizing the world of investing. Equity crowdfunding means that much smaller investors can get in the start-up game, buying into a share of transformative companies with potentially sizeable returns. OurCrowd is managed by a team of well-known professionals and led by serial entrepreneur Jon Medved, OurCrowd vets and selects opportunities, invests its own capital and brings these startups to its accredited membership. Webydo is a SaaS design platform for professional designers with a code-free, cloud-based business solution that empowers design professionals to lead the responsive website creation market. No other platform in the market provides a comprehensive, A to Z, solution. Bizzabo is the world’s...

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