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Microsoft buys Israeli digital pen, world’s 10 most innovative Israeli companies & Startup Nation’s future [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Microsoft buys Israeli digital pen, world’s 10 most innovative Israeli companies & Startup Nation’s future [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Feb 23, 2015 |

Digital pen company is the latest Israeli acquisition. The world’s 10 most innovative Israeli companies in the world – according to Fast Company. An interview with one of Israel’s greatest gurus. Read on in this week’s newsletter. Start getting this weekly newsletter via email: Subscribe now Microsoft buys digital pen company N-trig for $200M Microsoft is acquiring Israeli digital pen company N-trig, which developed a chip for a digital pen and computer screen interface, for a reported $200M. N-trig is led by CEO Dan Inbar who took over from Amichai Ben-David 18 months ago, and includes 170 employees. Founded in 1999, N-trig changed its business model in 2011 to focus on digital pens. Learn more. OurCrowd in the News OurCrowd’s Zack Miller highlights top crowdfunding sites for athletes on Crowdfund Insider OurCrowd’s portfolio company Consumer Physics was featured in The Jerusalem Post OurCrowd and ReWalk are listed as Israeli tech ideas that changed the world by Times of Israel OurCrowd’s portfolio company ReWalk was featured in NoCamels OurCrowd’s portfolio company Highcon was featured in Packaging South Asia OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved comments on the pace of Israeli investments on Israel21c OurCrowd’s portfolio company Consumer Physics was featured in Crowdfund Insider OurCrowd’s portfolio...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company The Trendlines Group featured in the Times of Israel

Feb 19, 2015 | ,

OurCrowd portfolio company The Trendlines Group was featured in the Times of Israel, an English-language news website covering Israel, the region & the Jewish world. The Trendlines Group establishes, invests in, and develops innovation-based medical and agritech businesses that improve the human condition. Trendlines has two incubators in Israel, one concentrating on medical devices, and the other on agtech. The firm invests in the companies it sponsors in the incubators, and helps them achieve exits (Trendlines has done four exits in the past 16 months, said Dollinger). Both those areas are in great demand in China, and Chinese firms are actively looking for help. Chinese partners and investors were present at Trendlines’ recent investment conference, where over 500 people came to see presentations by 13 companies in the medical device and agtech fields.   The Trendlines Group raised $900,000 from OurCrowd investors in May 2013. Read more on the Times of...

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The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Israeli Companies of 2015 by Fast Company

The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Israeli Companies of 2015 by Fast Company

Feb 19, 2015 | ,

Each year, award-winning tech magazine Fast Company spends months gathering and analyzing data in order to generate its annual report on The World’s Most Innovative Companies. The list is a guide to the state of innovation in economy, featuring the businesses whose innovations are having the greatest impacts across their industries and our culture as a whole. Therefore, it’s not surprising that several Israeli companies fresh out of the Startup Nation, the world’s #2 startup ecosystem, were included. In addition to the noted 50 Most Innovative Companies and the accompanying top 10 companies in various sectors —which include a number of Israeli startups — the magazine recently released a list of the world’s top 10 most innovative companies of 2015 in Israel. There is no doubt about it, Israel has become a world leader in startup success. Famously titled 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. The world’s top most innovative Israeli companies in additional categories include Houzz (#11 in Top 50; #1 in Architecture), ElMindA (#48 in Top 50; #4 in Health Care), Rafael Advanced Defense Systems (#10 in Design), Consumer Physics (#10 in Food), NICE Systems (#8 in Money), FeeX (#3 in Personal...

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OurCrowd Events March-April 2015

OurCrowd Events March-April 2015

Feb 18, 2015 | ,

OurCrowd founder & CEO Jon Medved and team members will be hosting events in the US, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and Israel in the upcoming weeks, with the CEOs of our new startups and guest speakers. Scroll down to learn more and RSVP. We hope to see you at one of our events. Be sure to RSVP on the links below – either scroll through the events calendar below or the text list. Space is limited!   March 27th – New York, NY What: OurCrowd will join Pennovation Israel for the Israeli Startups Trek in NYC. This event is hosted by Wharton, University of Pennsylvania Featuring: Andrew Scharf, VP OurCrowd When: 4:00PM-5:00PM For more information, please email Allison@OurCrowd.com   March 31st- San Diego, CA What: Join OurCrowd’s VP of Americas, Audrey Jacobs, for lunch and meet the CEO from MyAgentFinder, one of OurCrowd’s currently funding companies. This event is co-hosted by KPMG Featuring: Audrey Jacobs, VP OurCrowd Americas, and David Tal, CEO MyAgentFinder When: 12:00PM-2:00PM For more information, please click here.   April 8th-9th – Israel What: Join OurCrowd for our Annual Passover...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Bizzabo featured in VentureBeat

Feb 18, 2015 | ,

Leading technology website, VentureBeat, featured OurCrowd portfolio company Bizzabo. Constructing interactive event-groups, Bizzabo utilizes social media in order to facilitate the dialogue between event organizers and guests. At one time, you could always recognize the coordinator of a conference. It was the person carrying the largest binder. Now, of course, you’ll have to use other identifiers. That’s because of companies like Bizzabo, which is today launching the next gen of its cloud-based event management platform. Before, the event platform from the Tel Aviv- and New York City-based company covered “everything about the event experience,” cofounder and chief marketing officer Alon Alroy told VentureBeat. Bizzabo raised $506,000 from OurCrowd investors in January 2014. Read more on...

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