“To celebrate Israel’s 67th birthday, Israeli crowdfunding platform OurCrowd announced its 67th investment in ElMindA, which has developed the world’s first FDA-approved neural functional assessment tool to visualize serious brain trauma and...
Read MoreOurCrowd portfolio company Webydo was featured in Globes, the leading Israeli financial daily. Webydo provides graphic designers a powerful set of design tools to build and maintain websites with little technical knowledge. Israeli cloud-based web design platform for professionals Webydo has raised $5 million from Singulariteam, the fund led by entrepreneur Moshe Hogeg. Webydo has raised $13.8 million including the latest financing. Webydo is a B2B website design platform that empowers graphic and web designers to craft, manage, and host pixel-perfect responsive websites for their clients, without writing any code. Webydo raised $1,292,500 from OurCrowd investors in December 2013. Read more on...
Read More“A passion for Israel and 6,000 tech startups make a pretty good recipe for crowdfunding. That’s what Jon Medved discovered when he founded OurCrowd, an online platform that connects mostly Israeli companies with investors around the world. Jerusalem-based OurCrowd said it’s funneled $120 million in investments to 67 startups since 2013. That makes it one of the world’s fastest-growing firms in the fledgling universe of equity crowdfunding, according to Richard Swart, a resident scholar on the subject at the University of California at...
Read MoreOurCrowd portfolio company ReWalk, developer of the FDA approved ReWalk exoskeleton device, was featured in Financial Times. ReWalk is the developer of the FDA approved ReWalk exoskeleton device, providing paraplegics with an independent, natural walking experience that provides them numerous social, psychological, and physical benefits. Rewalk is one of a handful of technology companies that make high-tech wearable robotic exoskeletons for wheelchair users, a fledgling market that is slowly beginning to take off. Last year, tetraplegic Irving Caplan, who was paralysed after a cycling accident 18 years ago, made headlines after he crossed a dance floor wearing a pair of Rex Bionic legs to deliver a speech at his daughter’s wedding in St Albans, Hertfordshire. Mr Johnson says he tried a number of exoskeleton devices but Rewalk’s system suited him best. The 20 kilogrammes device, which costs £40,350, holds the legs in place and uses sensors to know which direction the person wants to walk by the tilt of their body. It is powered by a rechargeable battery in a backpack and a digital watch allows the user to programme what it wants to...
Read MoreOurCrowd portfolio company Surgical Theater was featured on CBS News’ “CBS This Morning.” Surgical Theater has developed software that combines the science of flight simulation with advanced CT/MRI imaging technology to allow surgeons to perform a 3D “flight simulation” of surgery before the actual operation. At UCLA, neurosurgeons are slipping on virtual reality headsets to go inside their patients’ brains. “I’m virtually inside the skull of the patient walking around, floating around,” [said Dr. Neil Martin, chairman of University of California Los Angeles’ department of neurosurgery]. He’s developing this virtual technology with Surgical Theater CEO Moty Avisar, a former officer in the Israeli air force who designed flight simulators for F-16 fighter jets. Surgical Theater raised $580,000 from OurCrowd investors in April 2013 and $1,080,000 in its 2nd round of funding in January 2014. View the segment below or read the accompanying article on CBS...
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