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Is Australia moving fast enough? OurCrowd’s Danna Mann on ABC Radio National

Is Australia moving fast enough? OurCrowd’s Danna Mann on ABC Radio National

Apr 14, 2015 |

An estimated $8-billion was crowdfunded last year globally and interest is surging. But is Australia moving fast enough? On her recent trip to Austrlia, OurCrowd’s Partner and Head of Investor Relations, Danna Hochstein Mann, was interviewed by radio presenter Geraldine Doogue on ABC Radio National’s “Saturday Extra” (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). In the interview, Danna discusses equity crowdfunding, investment opportunities in startups, and Australia’s role in the global market. Crowdsourcing equity to help entrepreneurs grow their business is rapidly taking off. Social technology platforms in particular are making it easier to raise equity capital. But are Australian investors and regulators keeping up? . Listen to the full interview on ABC Radio National below or here. . Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s RN program Saturday Extra with Geraldine...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Lucid Energy featured on PBS

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OurCrowd’s Portland-based portfolio company Lucid Energy, a provider of renewable energy systems, was featured on PBS NewsHour. In the report, Hari Sreenivasan interviewed Lucid Energy CEO Gregg Semler and discussed the company’s development of hydroelectric power that doesn’t hurt the environment. Hydroelectricity — using the flow of water to generate power — has long been a small but key source of renewable energy. How can cities around the country better harness that potential? A startup in Portland, Oregon, has developed a system that gets energy from gravity-fed drinking water pipes to produce electricity without any environmental impact. Lucid Energy raised $1,650,000 from OurCrowd investors in November 2012. View the video below or play it on PBS...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company BioCatch featured in Reuters

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Biocatch was featured on Reuters, a leading international news agency. The company has developed a novel form of authentication used by online businesses to continuously guarantee users are who they say they are, by analyzing their behavioral and cognitive responses. Fraud prevention group Early Warning, which is owned by five of the largest U.S. banks, has teamed up with Israel’s BioCatch, a specialist in behavioral biometrics, to boost protection of customer accounts. BioCatch’s system analyses and remembers how people maneuver physically online and can warn banks if a client’s account has been hacked. BioCatch raised $3,334,500 from OurCrowd investors in February 2014. Read more on...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Webydo featured in The Next Web

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Leading technology news website, The Next Web, featured OurCrowd portfolio company Webydo. The company provides graphic designers a powerful set of design tools to build and maintain websites with little technical knowledge. Ah, the creative. Once upon a time he or she toiled over a canvas alone in cold studios on the outskirts of town. Today, he or she can be sat just about anywhere and create their masterpiece and share it with the world. Thanks to technology. To celebrate this shift, we teamed up with Webydo, a code-free professional web design platform, to give away two brand new iPads along with three Pencils from FiftyThree. Webydo raised $1,292,500 from OurCrowd investors in December 2013. Read more on The Next...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Consumer Physics featured in Ha’aretz

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Consumer Physics was featured in Ha’aretz, a leading English-language Website for real-time news and analysis of Israel and the Middle East. Consumer Physics has developed the world’s first affordable molecular sensor – the Scio – that fits in the palm of your hand. [I]f Consumer Physics’ plans proceed as intended, within a few months you will be able to scan your food and – within about ten seconds – know what’s in it, using a pocket sensor called SCiO. The scanner will also be able to authenticate medications or supplements. *** It sounds like science fiction but actually the underlying technology has been around for a long time: the device is simply a spectrometer, but miniaturized to pocket size. 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...

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