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Recipe for Retail Sector Success: Q&A with Andrew Heyer, Jamba Juice Investor, Mistral Equity Partners CEO

Recipe for Retail Sector Success: Q&A with Andrew Heyer, Jamba Juice Investor, Mistral Equity Partners CEO

Feb 4, 2015 |

What’s the recipe for success investing in the retail and consumer sectors? How does an investor decide what companies to focus on and what is ‘investable’ in the retail and consumer sector  investment landscape? The following webinar, part of the OurCrowd Teach-In Tuesdays series, covers investment trends in the consumer and retail sectors. OurCrowd’s Principal, David Stark, and Head of Investment Community, Zack Miller, engage in a lively discussion and Q&A session with repeat retail sector investor and Mistral Equity Partners CEO Andrew Heyer, whose investment portfolio includes brands like Jamba Juice, Celestial Seasonings and XpresSpa. In this live Q&A session: Hear Andrew’s experience investing with major retail brands owned by Jamba, Worldwise, XpresSpa, Vino Volo, Hain Celestial Group, Country Pure and LoveSac Learn what to look for when investing in the retail and consumer sectors Understand what moves the retail ecosystem and the similarities and differences with tech startup investing Featured experts: Andrew Heyer, the CEO and a Managing Director of Mistral Equity Partners. Prior to founding Mistral, Mr. Heyer served as a Founding Managing Partner of Trimaran Capital Partners. Mr. Heyer was formerly a vice chairman of CIBC World Markets Corp....

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Pixie featured on Forbes

Feb 3, 2015 | ,

OurCrowd’s portfolio company Pixie was featured on Forbes, a leading business and finance magazine. The company is both a technology platform and a consumer product with the goal of keeping the things that matter to you — and to others — in sight. Up until now, many of the early IoT applications haven’t caught on in a massive way…  A new solution launching today may change all that. It’s called Pixie, and the best way to understand it is to hear OurCrowd’s CEO and founder, Jon Medved, an early investor in Pixie alongside Spark Capital and Cedar Funds, describe it: “It just helps you find your stuff.” And that’s what Pixie is all about: helping us keep track of all our our things. How many times have you left for the airport, not knowing whether you really packed your passport? Pixie raised $1,547,123 from OurCrowd investors in November 2014. Read more on...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Pixie featured on CNN Money

Feb 3, 2015 | ,

OurCrowd’s portfolio company Pixie was featured on CNN Money. The company is both a technology platform and a consumer product with the goal of keeping the things that matter to you — and to others — in sight. “Finding my cat took 30 minutes, finding what I sold in China in ’03 took me a second,” said CEO and co-founder Amir Bassan-Eskenazi. “I was struck by the difference between the digital world and the physical world.” He spent the next two years developing Pixie, which lets someone affix lightweight smart tags — or “pixies” — to possessions to keep tabs on their whereabouts. Think of it like a GPS system for everyday items. Pixie raised $1,547,123 from OurCrowd investors in November 2014. Read more on CNN...

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[Corephotonics in Geektime] Israeli startup Corephotonics raises $17.8 million to improve smartphone cameras

Feb 2, 2015 |

Corephotonics, an Israeli company that created a unique and compact camera in smartphones to improve the quality of digital photography, announced today that they raised $17.8 million (article in Hebrew) in their second funding round since launching in 2012. Amiti Ventures, together with existing investors Magma Ventures, Horizons Ventures, and BetaAngels Partners led the funding round. New investors, including Sandisk, two device manufacturers and a Chinese mobile content provider, also joined the funding round. This brings their total funding to date to $28.3 million. Read more on...

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Israeli fund wave continues, Israel’s Space Week & the rush to China [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Israeli fund wave continues, Israel’s Space Week & the rush to China [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Feb 2, 2015 |

Israel kicked off Space Week, all while raising another $75M for three native startups. Israeli VCs landed in China, and we spotlight two Israeli entrepreneurs. Start getting this weekly newsletter via email: Subscribe now Israeli tech fundraising wave continues: three startups raise $75M The wave of double-digit tech fundraising showed no signs of letting up this past week. Three Israeli startups announced that they had raised or were about to raise a total amount of $75 million from investors. At the top of the list was ClickTale, whose software enables website owners to see how users behave on their sites, which raised $35M. Addallom, a U.S.-Israeli cyber-security startup, is close to raising at least $25M. A third company, the U.S.-Israeli startup Kaminario, said that it has raised $15M. Learn more OurCrowd & Portfolio Companies in the News Consumer Physics in Gigaom Curiyo featured in TechCrunch Freightos featured in Tech In Asia Freightos featured in Times of Israel Highcon featured in Packaging Europe Webydo featured in SuperbWebsiteBuilders Out of this world innovation: Annual Israel Space Week gets underway Last week Space Week in Israel was kicked off with educational activities, lectures, contests,...

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