Author: OurCrowd

Top investment opportunities Startup of the Week: ByondXR’s virtual retail boosts sales SoftBank to invest $25M in OurCrowd Opening doors in Abu Dhabi Our latest exit: Renesas buys Celeno for $315M BlueGreen brings clean water to half a million South Africans Bizzabo buys TeeVid, third acquisition in five months Cyabra raises $5.6M for fake news analysis platform Tala raises $145M to expand services and global operations Merck taps CytoReason for cancer drug development ThetaRay wins startup competition in Abu Dhabi Introductions More than 3,500 high-tech jobs SoftBank to invest $25M in OurCrowd “Softbank has been investing ahead of major technology trends for over 40 years and we believe there is huge, embedded potential in the private markets ecosystem. In OurCrowd, we have an investment partner with the networks and pedigree to help promising Israeli startups to potentially emerge as international tech champions,” says Yossi Cohen, head of SoftBank Investment Advisers’ operations in Israel, as we announce that SoftBank Vision Fund 2 will make a $25M convertible equity investment into OurCrowd. It is the first investment Cohen has led since...