Author: OurCrowd

OurCrowd’s portfolio company Cimagine featured in The Next Web

Mar 12, 2015 | ,

Leading technology news website, The Next Web, featured OurCrowd portfolio company Cimagine. The company hopes to boost sales and increase consumer confidence by providing a mobile platform on which to visualize merchandise three dimensionally in their intended locations. Israeli augmented reality startup Cimagine Media has announced a tie up with Shop Direct, the company behind online retail brands including Very.co.uk and Littlewoods.com. The deal will allow visitors to those sites to see what thousands of products will look like in their homes using markerless augmented reality (AR). Cimagine’s technology scans your room then places a 3D model of the item you’re interested into the environment. You can them reposition it where you like and walk around to get a look at the different angles. Cimagine raised $360,000 from OurCrowd investors in July 2014. Read more on The Next...

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OurCrowd & Wharton Launch World’s Largest Student-Run Impact Investing Platform

OurCrowd & Wharton Launch World’s Largest Student-Run Impact Investing Platform

Mar 10, 2015 | ,

Earlier today, OurCrowd announced a partnership with the Wharton Social Venture Fund and Locust Walk Impact Partners that will help Wharton students get an unparalleled experiential education in impact investing and bring leading impact investment opportunities to OurCrowd’s crowdfunding platform. The Wharton Social Impact Initiative trains MBA and select Wharton undergraduates to staff the Wharton Social Venture Fund. Working with the firm Locust Walk Impact Partners, these students identify and negotiate terms for compelling impact investment opportunities throughout the world. Through the partnership with OurCrowd, capital for these investments will be raised through a special social impact channel on the OurCrowd platform. This makes Wharton’s offering the largest and most active student-run impact investing program in the world. Look for the first deals to launch on OurCrowd in the second quarter of this year. “Crowdfunding is a perfect way to raise funds for impact investing” – Jon Medved, OurCrowd Founder & CEO OurCrowd has already invested in companies addressing critical global issues, such as physical disabilities, gun safety, food security, malaria containment, disaster preparedness, and more. CEO Jon Medved says “crowdfunding is...

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10 medtech trends to monitor, a $200M acquisition, & the Israelis behind the ‘Pebble Time’ smartwatch [OurCrowd Newsletter]

10 medtech trends to monitor, a $200M acquisition, & the Israelis behind the ‘Pebble Time’ smartwatch [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Mar 9, 2015 |

Review last week in Startup Nation: another acquisition, medtech trends to monitor this year, what Fiverr is up to and what Rowan Gibson has to say about the Israeli spirit. Start getting this weekly newsletter via email: Subscribe now Nielsen buys Israeli big data company eXelate for $200M American global information and measurement company, Nielsen Holdings, has acquired Israeli data management company eXelate for an estimated $200 million. Founded in 2007, the company has developed a platform that allows data search and analysis for digital ad companies. eXelate has raised $32 million to date and employs 100 people in the US, Israel and at its London and Paris offices. The company’s development center will remain in Israel. Learn more. OurCrowd in the News Pixie featured in Ha’aretz OurCrowd featured in Baltimore Business Journal Surgical Theater featured in NBC Los Angeles Lucid Energy featured on KGW Israel21c featured MUV & Consumer Physics BioCatch featured in Biometric Update Consumer Physics in The Seattle Times ReWalk featured on CNBC OurCrowd’s Jon Medved in JNS.org SoBi featured in Atlanta Business Chronicle BillGuard featured on CNBC Tapit featured in ZDNet 10 medtech trends to monitor in 2015 Recently, the CES event illustrated just how technology...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company BioCatch featured in the Times of Israel

Mar 9, 2015 | ,

OurCrowd portfolio company BioCatch was featured in the Times of Israel, an English-language news website covering Israel, the region & the Jewish world. 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. What’s the best way to make sure that cyber-crooks don’t have the opportunity to raid bank or credit card accounts belonging to legitimate customers? By keeping them out of the system in the first place, according to Oren Kedem, VP of products at cyber-security startup BioCatch. The newest release of the Tel Aviv startup’s technology now enables banks and online financial sites to detect fraudsters during the account-opening process, so that they can be booted off the site before they have an opportunity to steal anything. BioCatch raised $3,334,500 from OurCrowd investors in February 2014. Read more on the Times of...

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