Author: OurCrowd

OurCrowd’s portfolio company CrediFi featured in The Wall Street Journal

May 11, 2015 | ,

Leading business and finance website, The Wall Street Journal, featured OurCrowd’s portfolio company CrediFi, a data and risk analysis platform enabling greater transparency and insight-driven investment decisions for the multi-trillion dollar Commercial Real Estate finance markets. Credifi Corp. has aggregated data and analytics on more than 10 billion square feet of commercial real estate across the U.S. Now the company has emerged with $8 million in funding to expand its cloud service, which is used by banks, hedge funds and other customers to get breakdowns on property loans, tenants, building occupancies, real-estate investments and legal and compliance issues. The Series A round was led by Battery Ventures and includes Carmel Ventures and the crowdfunding platform OurCrowd, taking total funding to $10 million. . CrediFi raised $334,935 from OurCrowd investors in April 2014 and $888,028 in a follow-on round in March 2015. Read more on the...

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[CrediFi in The Wall Street Journal] Credifi Scores $8 Million to Mine Commercial Real-Estate Data

May 11, 2015 |

Credifi Corp. has aggregated data and analytics on more than 10 billion square feet of commercial real estate across the U.S. Now the company has emerged with $8 million in funding to expand its cloud service, which is used by banks, hedge funds and other customers to get breakdowns on property loans, tenants, building occupancies, real-estate investments and legal and compliance issues. Read more on The Wall Street...

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Cybereason raises $25M, 10 startups to watch this summer, & Israeli passion as crowdfunding’s hot formula [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Cybereason raises $25M, 10 startups to watch this summer, & Israeli passion as crowdfunding’s hot formula [OurCrowd Newsletter]

May 11, 2015 |

Corporate security is broken – and a $25M raise will help fix it. Ten top Israeli startups to watch this summer. The secret sauce to crowdfunding. And more this week from Startup Nation… Start getting this weekly newsletter via email: Subscribe now Cybereason raises $25M because corporate security is broken  As data breaches expose millions of U.S. health records and cyber attacks threaten to cause an accidental nuclear war, security tech is more relevant than ever. Cybereason, an Israeli startup that provides real-time cyber attack detection and response tech for the enterprise, is the latest company to tap into the heightened fear around security breaches.The company has just closed a $25 million Series B funding round led by Spark Capital with participation from Lockheed Martin and CRV. Learn more. OurCrowd & Portfolio Companies in the News  Surgical Theater featured on CBS OurCrowd featured in Bloomberg Business Syqe featured in Canadian Jewish News ReWalk featured in Financial Times SoBi featured in LIHerald.com OurCrowd featured in Times of Israel Webydo featured in Globes 10 Israeli startups to watch this summer Israel continues to innovate, with the highest number of scientists...

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[Zebra in Wired] Europe’s hottest startups 2015: Tel Aviv

May 8, 2015 |

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. Expect 2015 to be another huge year, with $910 million raised in one January week alone and Outbrain and IronSource preparing IPOs. “What sets Israel and Tel Aviv apart is its openness,” says Naomi Krieger Carmy, director of the British embassy’s UK-Israel Tech Hub. “You can meet almost anyone, and everyone knows and talks to — and about — each other.” Read more in...

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