Author: OurCrowd

[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

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”

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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The Next Web: Having raised a $5.5m round, OurCrowd helps keep Israel’s Startup Nation funded

Shira Abel covered OurCrowd’s February 2013 launch in The Next Web: “… deal-flow is highly vetted and curated as the incentives are aligned. If the fund loses money, so do the partners… The investment team at OurCrowd rocks. Jon Medved is known in Israel as one of the top investors in the country and has been through all of the country’s ups and downs when it comes to startup companies and investing.” Read more...

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