Author: OurCrowd

OurCrowd featured in International Business Times

Mar 23, 2013 |

Vanessa O’Brien of the IBT featured OurCrowd as the best way to invest in startups without the barriers that exist in traditional VC. Check it out below or read it online here.   Israel Is In The Midst Of A Technology Startup Boom. How Do You Invest In It Without A Lot Of Money? Try Crowdfunding Venture Capitalists From the International Business Times By Vanessa O’Brien | March 22 2013 9:43 PM TEL AVIV, Israel — The average Tel Avivian spends about a year of life trawling through traffic on the frustrating hunt for a car park, according to municipal statistics. That may seem like a lot, but it’s on par with the world’s other big cities, according to IBM’s Global Parking Survey 2011. Now, there’s an app for that. And it’s one of the products of Israel’s burgeoning technology startup scene: High-tech exports are estimated to be worth $18.4 billion a year, or almost one-half of the country’s entire exports, according to Central Bureau of Statistics data. Two Tel Aviv residents who fought the daily car-park battle in the sweltering...

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[International Business Times] Israel Is In The Midst Of A Technology Startup Boom. How Do You Invest In It Without A Lot Of Money? Try Crowdfunding Venture Capitalists

[International Business Times] Israel Is In The Midst Of A Technology Startup Boom. How Do You Invest In It Without A Lot Of Money? Try Crowdfunding Venture Capitalists

Mar 22, 2013 |

OurCrowd may afford an insight into what the future of funding for Israel’s tech industry will look like… What OurCrowd aims for is the “golden mean in the middle,” Zivotofsky said: “The choice, the transparency, the ability to invest smaller amounts in what they want to invest in, but the professional experience of what a venture capital team would normally...

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NextPeer in TechCrunch for “adding 100,000 users per day”

Feb 20, 2013 | , ,

NextPeer was featured in TechCrunch today for reportedly adding over 100K users per day as its latest games went viral. An excerpt below: It can be a tough life out there for mobile-social gaming platforms. With Apple’s Game Center covering the bare basics and GREE’s recent shutdown of OpenFeint, it’s arguable that there isn’t that much room for another mobile gaming platform. Yet there are a few startups that are trying to do it by offering something differentiated. Indeed, NextPeer’s unique business model is different from other platforms and has brought it such massive user growth. Whenever a game developer using NextPeer creates a smash hit, NextPeer rides off the game’s success, serving those hundreds of thousands of new users. At the same time, the developers find enormous benefit from NextPeer’s system: “In the beginning, we didn’t have tons and tons of players,” [the game developer] said. “You’d always just have to wait for people to come and play. We’d get reviews saying that the game was cool but that people wanted to play against somebody.” Having implemented NextPeer’s...

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