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OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved is featured in popular Australian website StartupSmart, a news and information platform for Australian startups and entrepreneurs.
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“The cyber security market is in a Renaissance” Israel is known by most people as the Startup Nation, thanks to the its startup companies and numerous success stories. However, over the years Israel has also come to be known as a Cyber Nation. Given its own experiences and geography, Israel has become a leader in the cybersecurity field and is uniquely positioned for cyber challenges. The government, VC’s and angel investors are now more than ever investing in and promoting the cyber security market in Israel. But, why are investors excited about cyber security startups? Ron Moritz, one of OurCrowd’s mentors, gave a keynote address at OWASP Israel at the IDC (400+ attendees) about investing in startup cyber security companies, addressing the recent surge in the market’s popularity among investors and highlights which products and services for the cyber security market are hot right now. View his presentation below: Why Are Investors Excited About Cyber Security Startups, Again? from...
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“Healthcare and life sciences are also receiving a large amount of funding – OurCrowd is seeing 25 per cent being invested in this area and the remainder going to the internet, software and communications industries. ‘A lot of the money to fund Israeli start-ups is coming from Silicon Valley,’ says Medved. ‘And each year around 50-100 of these companies are bought by the big tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, IBM and Cisco.’...
Read MoreLeading technology website, TechCrunch, featured OurCrowd portfolio company Maverick from Appforma, a social media marketing agency-in-a-box for small businesses. Appforma recently won Facebook’s prestigious Preferred Marketing Developer Innovation Award for its newly-released automated marketing platform, Maverick. The early Dot Com promise was that the web puts small and large businesses on a level playing field. But as the platform has matured, that promise has turned out to be somewhat hollow, not least in the area of online marketing… Enter Maverick from AppForma, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup that wants to become the “WordPress for digital marketing”. Akin to an online marketing ‘wizard’, Maverick walks the users through the steps involved in creating and executing campaigns, including running the production, optimization, and follow up of each online campaign. OurCrowd investors backed Appforma (Maverick) with a $315,000 round in March 2013. Read more on...
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What does it take to create a successful startup ecosystem? Furthermore, what does it take to create a the dynamic and innovative culture, community and possibilities of a startup city? Tel Aviv: Startup Utopia Many have written (and will write) about the Startup Nation’s success in general and the success of its high-tech capital Tel Aviv specifically. Why all the hype? Well, besides the fact that Tel Aviv is the second-most entrepreneurial hotspot after Silicon Valley, it also has the highest density of startups in the world — and the number is constantly growing. Even President Obama once said that “if people want to see the future of the world economy, they should look at Tel Aviv.” But how does Tel Aviv, as a city, maintain its status as a hotbed of startup culture and money? And can other cities around the globe replicate its thriving startup environment? Tel Aviv’s Secret Sauce In an article in Inc. Magazine, contributor Jeremy Shure lists several forward-thinking and innovative initiatives taken by the city that have contributed in the cultivation of its vibrant startup ecosystem. The local government is exceptionally proactive in making the city a...
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