Author: OurCrowd

[ProFuse in PR Newswire] ProFuse Technology received $1.25M from Fresh Start FoodTech Incubator

ProFuse Technology was established by Fresh Start FoodTech in the north of Israel, is supported by The Israeli Innovation Authority, and is operated by the Tnuva, Israel’s leading food company, Tempo, a leading beverage company, OurCrowd’s investment platform and the global Agrifood VC, Finistere Ventures. The company’s unique expertise is the optimization of the differentiation and fusion stage of cultured meat, which accounts for ~50% of its production costs. Read more...

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[BlueGreen Water Technologies in South African Jewish Report] Israeli company brings SA dam back to life

“BlueGreen is committed to making water safe,” says Eyal Harel, the chief executive and co-founder of the company. “We undertook this project pro-bono, knowing it was the only chance for this community to access clean drinking water, enjoy Setumo Dam as a safe water source, and unleash its potential for recreational purposes. We wish to empower local authorities to reclaim their water sources and advance the health and livelihood of their communities. Read more...

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Pitchbook: OurCrowd Israel’s most active investor

Investing industry bible PitchBook has crowned OurCrowd as “the most active venture capital investor in Israel this year as record amounts of capital flood into the country’s startup ecosystem.” PitchBook reports that OurCrowd has invested in more than double the deals of the next most active Israeli investors. This is the ninth year in succession that OurCrowd has won the PitchBook accolade for our leadership of Israel’s tech investing ecosystem, CTech Calcalist reports. We are proud to be leading the high tech industry in Israel, which is now firing on all cylinders. Israeli tech companies raised $17.5B in the first nine months of 2021, outstripping the record $10B raised in all of 2020, Globes reports based on figures from Startup Nation Central. Despite the Jewish New Year and other holidays, Israeli startups raised over $2.2B in September 2021. The Israeli ecosystem is in hypergrowth, and OurCrowd is proud to be leading it as Israel’s most active VC investor. Israel’s ability to create new breakthroughs in a broad range of disciplines such as medicine, agriculture, mobility and transportation, food technology,...

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