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Israel #1 in Cleantech, a win for Viewbix, a $53 million round for data storage, Person of the Year [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Israel #1 in Cleantech, a win for Viewbix, a $53 million round for data storage, Person of the Year [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Dec 8, 2014 |

Raise a glass of (clean) water to Israel, which retained it’s position as #1 in Cleantech for another year. In addition, OurCrowd portfolio company Viewbix raised $3 million to bring interactive video players across the web. Learn about Israeli tech’s role in the ninth Nobel Prize for Bell. And the ‘Person of the Year’ award goes to… find out below. Start getting this weekly newsletter via email: Subscribe now. Kaminario ‘stores’ away $53M to take on the flash storage market Israeli solid state drive (SSD) data storage provider Kaminario has raised $53 million. Founded in 2008, Kaminario is currently registered in Newton, Massachusetts, and has its development center in Yokneam, Israel. The company has developed software for managing organizational storage systems based on flash memory. The current round will help accelerate Kaminario’s growth, and expand its sales and marketing setup and its support for the Kaminario K2 flash storage solution. Read up about Kaminario. OurCrowd in the News Spotlight: [OurCrowd Portfolio Company] Viewbix Raises $3M To Wrap Video Ads Inside Interactive Players OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved interviewed on TLV1 Radio...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company ReWalk featured on CNN Money

Dec 8, 2014 | ,

OurCrowd portfolio company ReWalk, developer of the FDA approved ReWalk exoskeleton device, was featured on CNN Money. ReWalk is the developer of the FDA approved ReWalk exoskeleton device, providing paraplegics with an independent, natural walking experience that provides them numerous social, psychological, and physical benefits. ReWalk (RWLK) is the brainchild of Israeli scientist Dr. Amit Goffer who, after an ATV accident in 1997, became a quadriplegic. Goffer grew frustrated with the limitations of wheelchairs. “Once I realized there was not an alternative to the wheelchair, I couldn’t understand why,” said Goffer. He says he had always been an entrepreneur and he began prototyping the ReWalk in his garage. ReWalk raised $1,320,000 from OurCrowd investors in June 2013. Read more on CNN Money here. The article also contains a video segment on ReWalk, watch it below:...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Viewbix featured on TechCrunch

Dec 4, 2014 | ,

Leading technology website, TechCrunch, featured OurCrowd portfolio company Viewbix. The company Viewbix has developed a unique approach for helping small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) turn their online videos into mini-websites, thereby turning viewers into customers. Video ad startup Viewbix is announcing that it has raised $3 million in additional funding. The company basically wraps videos in a custom player, so if you’re an advertiser, the player can include your branding, as well as the ability to collect contact information and more. Co-founder and CEO Jonathan Stefansky [said] that this approach has been particularly effective on Facebook (Viewbix players work on both Facebook and Twitter), because “the combination of targeting, plus engagement and analytics, provides results that are literally 20x what we see on generic preroll distribution.” Viewbix raised $1,095,000 from OurCrowd investors in September 2013. Read more on...

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