Author: OurCrowd

Informilo featured OurCrowd in its June 2013 print magazine for Le Web London, one of the world’s largest tech conferences. “Equity crowdsourcing platforms […] potentially have important impact on the tech industry by helping to solve the seed and Series A funding crunch and transforming the way angels and VCs syndicate deals.” Read more here (PDF...

The Next Web’s Shira Abel spoke with Zvi Schreiber, CEO of OurCrowd portfolio company TradeOS, on June 9th. Their interview focused on the company’s push to modernize the freight industry. TradeOS’ ability to bring change to an industry that has been “shockingly Internet-resistant” is, in Abel’s words, “sexy”. TradeOS, funded by OurCrowd investors in 2012, is building the world’s premiere B2B marketplace for freight forwarding, called FreightOS. “The final stage of business to consumer sales has been very well automated by companies like Amazon and Ebay,” Schreiber explained in an interview with OurCrowd in 2012, “while business to business transactions mean sending quotes by email and fax and waiting for days.” FreightOS is bringing the same efficient online platform found in B2C sales to the B2B world. Read an excerpt of the piece below, or view it on The Next Web here. Zvi Schreiber is the CEO of FreightOS and a repeat, successful entrepreneur. Three out of the last four companies he’s founded were acquired. Tradeum was his largest success with a “home run” exit of $500 Million in shares...