Author: OurCrowd

OurCrowd High-Tech Jobs Index Q1 2021

High-tech jobs market advances from recovery to expansion Job vacancies at OurCrowd companies in Q1 2021 rise 50% year-on-year to more than 1,000Software engineers and business development roles are most in demandTwo-thirds of HR executives say it’s a job-seekers’ marketSoftware engineers are among Israel’s highest salaried earners“Our employees were happy to get back to the office and today enjoy a hybrid work model which we believe is best for both the company and its people” – Orr Danon, CEO, Hailo The OurCrowd High-Tech Jobs Index is a quarterly report and data series tracking vacancies and hiring patterns at high-tech companies in Israel and abroad. All data is based on a survey and the Jobs section of the OurCrowd website, where more than 100 portfolio companies list current vacancies (2nd edition: May 2021). EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Job vacancies rise 50% YoY The number of vacant positions advertised by high-tech startups in the OurCrowd portfolio rose from a peak of 715 in Q1 2020 to 1080 at the end of Q1 2021, an increase of nearly 50%. OurCrowd companies added an average...

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Newsletter: Elon Musk hails “robot future”

Startup of the Week: BionicHIVE’s robot warehouse CytoReason: Pfizer’s secret Israeli sauce Portfolio exit: Cisco acquires Kenna Security Nexa3D raises $55M for faster 3D printing Sufresca: Keeping food fresh without plastic Polaris Quantum Biotech: Supercharging drug discovery  CropX: Working with NASA to help farmers Materials Zone: $6M for materials discovery Mitsubishi drives forklifts from afar with Phantom Auto Explorium raises $75M Series C ThetaRay lands $31M and government clients Earned wage access provider DailyPay raises $500M Morphisec exposes RevengeRat spear-phishing threat Introductions More than 1,100 high-tech jobs Startup of the Week:BionicHIVE: Elon Musk hails “robot future” The robot future is coming,” exclaims Elon Musk, sharing a video of SqUID, the automated warehouse robot developed by our portfolio company BionicHIVE, that has been viewed more than two million times. SqUID is the only fully-automated warehouse robot technology that transforms existing facilities into autonomous warehouses of the future without any need to construct dedicated new buildings. The World Economic Forum says SqUID’s technological power and its ability to climb and work within existing infrastructures puts it in a unique category of its...

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[OurCrowd in CTech] העובדים חזרו לשלוט בשוק ההייטק; עלייה של 50% בביקוש

ההאטה ואי הוודאות של שנת הקורונה נותרו רק זיכרון רחוק בשוק ההייטק. מספר המשרות הפתוחות היום בחברות הטכנולוגיה גדול ב-50% לעומת הרבעון הראשון של 2020. הביקוש לאנשי מקצוע גדול ובהתאם, שני שליש מהחברות סבורות ששוק התעסוקה היום הוא שוק של עובדים ולא של מעסיקים, כך עולה מדו”ח התעסוקה הרבעוני של פלפורמת ההשקעות OurCrowd לענף ההייטק בישראל. Read...

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[OurCrowd in Crowdfund Insider] OurCrowd: Tech Jobs Index Jumps by 50% in Q1 2021

OurCrowd, a leading global online investment platform for early-stage firms, has published the High Tech Jobs Index Q1 2021. According to the report, job openings at OurCrowd portfolio companies have risen by 50% year over year for Q1 2021. OurCrowd states that portfolio companies are seeking approximately 1000 positions with software engineers and biz-dev openings in high demand. Read...

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