Author: OurCrowd

Updates from Startup Nation: the who, the where, the exits [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Updates from Startup Nation: the who, the where, the exits [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Nov 17, 2014 |

What makes the Startup Nation tick? One might argue strongly it’s the people – and often, those people happen to be alumni of elite IDF units. Read on about that, the latest in Israeli exits, ‘pop-up’ therapists’ offices in New York City, and more. Don’t forget to subscribe if you’d like to get these updates directly to your inbox! Microsoft buys Israeli cybersec startup Aoroto for $200M Microsoft confirmed that it has acquired Aorato, an Israel-based maker of security solutions co-founded by veterans of the Israeli defense forces, which only exited from stealth earlier this year. Aorato’s focus is on enterprise services in the cloud and in hybrid on-premise and cloud environments, using machine learning to detect suspicious patterns. Read up on the exit. Bubbling with innovation: Israeli therapy bubbles pop up in NY Israeli startup Talkspace erected large transparent bubbles last week on New York’s Fifth Avenue to offer free online psychological treatment to pedestrians. Passersby can enter a fake living room inside an inflated dome and chat online with a psychologist for free. The project’s aim is to raise awareness...

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This Week In Crowdfunding: Reddit gets into crowdfunding (and so do Gates and Zuckerberg)

This Week In Crowdfunding: Reddit gets into crowdfunding (and so do Gates and Zuckerberg)

Nov 16, 2014 | , ,

This Week in Crowdfunding is a newly launched podcast series hosted by OurCrowd’s Zack Miller and David Stark, where they cover the best in Crowdfunding with a frank — and educational — discussion about the issues surrounding Crowdfunding. Every week, they interview successful entrepreneurs, deconstruct campaigns, and hear from the smartest people around on this transformative, massive financing trend. Sign up to listen to the podcast on iTunes * Sticher * SoundCloud!  ——————————————— On this week’s TWiC, hosts Zack Miller and David Stark look at Reddit’s recent moves into crowdfunding and about the recent Indiegogo campaign, Hour of Code. Backed by tech entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, this crowdfunding project aims to train 10,000 teachers to teach 10 million students about computer science. Watson on Crowdfunding wows us with another amazing fact about crowdfunding. Listen to the FULL episode Resources mentioned in the podcast Reddit launches Redditmade An Hour of Code for every...

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Teach In Tuesdays: Join us (online) to learn about the elite IDF unit driving the Startup Nation

Teach In Tuesdays: Join us (online) to learn about the elite IDF unit driving the Startup Nation

Nov 13, 2014 |

Each month OurCrowd has hundreds of investors from around the world join us for online events from our webinar series called Teach-In-Tuesdays. In this series, we explore investing in early-stage Israeli and global companies, identify and explain influential tech trends, stay up-to-date with the crowdfunding industry, and examine actionable insights from our own experience running OurCrowd’s investment platform. During November, we will be hosting an educational webinar on Tuesday, November 18th, as part of our Teach-In-Tuesdays series. Register for the event below. Trenches to Traction: How Israel’s elite intelligence unit powers the Startup Nation Tuesday, November 18th (6:00 PM Israel / 11:00 AM NYC / 8:00 AM San Francisco) The ultimate startup boot camp? That would be Unit 8200. Join the Israel Defense Force’s Unit 8200 alum Gadi Mazor, also CTO and General Partner at OurCrowd, and Zack Miller, Head of the Investor Community at OurCrowd, for a lively Q&A discussion about the Israeli military intelligence unit that drives the Startup Nation’s high-tech industry. This elite technology unit’s alumni who enter into the civilian market have earned a reputation for their unique entrepreneurial skills and for creating outstanding, successful, and innovative startups. Join us...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company BriefCam featured on Times of Israel

Nov 12, 2014 | ,

OurCrowd portfolio company BriefCam was featured in the Times of Israel, an English-language news website covering Israel, the region & the Jewish world. BriefCam develops and sells video analysis software that is capable of creating synopses of long clips and identifying and tracking objects and activities. Its advanced algorithms allow users to review dozens of hours of footage from a multitude of sources in minutes, with multiple events overlaid in a semi-transparent view. With [BriefCam’s] system, specific security incidents and events can be quickly isolated, and investigations into incidents go much more quickly. Instead of having to watch endless hours of nothing happening, BriefCam automatically finds the portion of the footage that shows something happening. Earlier this year, BriefCam’s technology was used to set up a video surveillance system at one of America’s greatest landmarks, the Statue of Liberty. The BriefCam system was part of an overall solution by US security company Total Recal to totally revamp the video security system using top of the line and state of the art technology, replacing the previous system, which had been badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy in...

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Have you registered yet? OurCrowd’s Global Investor Summit – the biggest event of the year

Have you registered yet? OurCrowd’s Global Investor Summit – the biggest event of the year

Nov 12, 2014 |

You read the latest startup news. You keep up-to-date on Israel tech innovation. Perhaps you’ve participated in webinars and invested in OurCrowd portfolio companies. Perhaps… you’re ready for more. Now, take startup investing to the next level at OurCrowd’s Global Investor Summit, December 9-10 in Jerusalem, Israel. At the event, accredited investors from around the world will: learn 2015 projections from top VCs and investment analysts speak with the incredible entrepreneurs dominating the Israeli startup scene network with other OurCrowd investors from the international community tour the hottest Israeli tech and startup destinations The Global Investor Summit is the first of its kind, bringing together angel and VC investors from around the world to meet our team and each other, as well as more than 40 startups from OurCrowd’s portfolio – across sectors and stages. Highlights include: Panels with industry experts and keynote speakers covering technology trends, startup investing and what’s in store for 2015 and beyond Presentations by the cutting edge technologies that make up the OurCrowd portfolio, including ReWalk Robotics, OurCrowd’s first IPO on NASDAQ Offsite tours to...

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