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WatchDox acquired for $100M, 19 Israeli Red Herring winners, & the drip irrigation pioneer [OurCrowd Newsletter]

WatchDox acquired for $100M, 19 Israeli Red Herring winners, & the drip irrigation pioneer [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Apr 27, 2015 |

Blackberry is back – buying Israeli startups. Red Herring awards for 19 Israeli companies. A best friend in Intel. Jerusalem as a tech hub… and much more. Start getting this weekly newsletter via email: Subscribe now Blackberry buys Israeli-based startup, WatchDox, for an estimated $100M  BlackBerry, the Canadian company whose eponymous devices once dominated the smartphone market, announced it was acquiring the Israeli-U.S. startup WatchDox for approximately $100 million in a bid to further bolster its security credentials. The WatchDox software, which is being used by some of the world’s largest federal agencies, private equity firms and a slew of major Hollywood studios, gives clients full visibility and control over how their files are edited, copied, printed or forwarded. Learn more. OurCrowd & Portfolio Companies in the News  Lucid Energy featured in The Huffington Post Borro featured in the Wall Street Journal SightDX featured in Forbes Consumer Physics featured in CEA Blog BioCatch featured in Detroit Free Press Boatbound featured in Naluda Magazine 19 Israeli startups among Red Herring Europe Top 100 winners Since 1996, leading tech news magazine Red Herring annually reviews thousands of candidates for each...

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67 innovative startups to celebrate Israel’s 67th anniversary

67 innovative startups to celebrate Israel’s 67th anniversary

Apr 23, 2015 | ,

Today, Israel celebrates 67 years of the Startup Nation. People around the world are paying attention as this story continues to unfold – a startup country with a startup mentality, creating amazing innovation across all ‘sectors’ of life. And today, OurCrowd also announces the launch of our 67th investment! In just two short years, OurCrowd has established itself as a major force in startup investing, with more than $110M invested from its community of thousands of accredited investors from around the world. OurCrowd’s companies span major investment sectors – and even continents –  and include innovation in the Internet of Things, Fintech, Cybersecurity, Medtech, Agritech, Big Data, and Robotics. So, without further ado, here are OurCrowd’s 67 investments and portfolio companies: Consumer Hardware/Internet of Things BT9 – IoT for supply chain management. Clipfort – Securing firearms with biometric authentication. Consumer Physics – Makers of Scio, the molecular scanner that has been hailed as “Google for matter,” with a top ten Kickstarter campaign. Corephotonics – A compact camera design house with computational photography expertise. Stringify – Unifying platform for the Internet of Everything. MUV Interactive – Making any surface a...

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

Apr 22, 2015 | ,

Leading business and finance website, The Wall Street Journal, featured OurCrowd’s portfolio company Borro, a leading online asset-backed lending platform. Borro delivers liquidity to people with unprecedented speed and ease. Borro, a “luxury-asset-based lender”—like a high-end pawnbroker—entered the U.S. market three years ago making short-term “bridge” loans. For example, someone might finance a child’s private-school tuition by borrowing against an antique car until an expected annual bonus comes through. Loans so far have ranged from about $5,000 to $4 million in size. The London-based company this month began offering loans in the U.S. with terms from 18 months to three years, for up to $10 million, for high-net-worth borrowers who want to extract cash from their possessions to invest in other opportunities. The minimum loan is $100,000. Borro raised $7,159,920 from OurCrowd investors in 2015. Read more on the...

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19 Israeli startups among Red Herring Europe Top 100 winners

19 Israeli startups among Red Herring Europe Top 100 winners

Apr 21, 2015 | ,

Since 1996, leading tech news magazine Red Herring annually reviews thousands of candidates for each of its three Top 100 awards (Asia, Europe and the Americas) and is widely recognized as one of the industry’s more prestigious awards. Each year for the past decade, there has been a strong Israeli presence among the companies nominated for the Top 100 Europe category, where Israeli firms compete. This year, Israel had a strong showing with 19 companies named winners. Out of these 19 Israeli companies, six are members of OurCrowd’s portfolio (and some are current investment opportunities)! The Red Herring Top 100 award winners include some of the most exciting Israeli startups that exhibit unparalleled innovation and economic ingenuity. There is no doubt about it: Israel has become a world leader in startup success. Famously titled as the ‘Startup Nation’, Israel has earned international acclaim for its cutting-edge innovations, startups, and research in the fields of science, technology, medicine, and the environment. Check out the OurCrowd representatives within the 2015 Red Herring Europe Top 100 Israeli winners: BioCatch BioCatch has developed a novel form of authentication used by online businesses to continuously guarantee users are who they say they...

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