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FireBlade receives funding from Israel’s OurCrowd

Apr 3, 2013 | ,

OurCrowd is happy to announce the funding of our portfolio company FireBlade (aka SiteBlackBox), a website protection company against cyber attacks. The company raised $4.5 million in its latest round of financing. SiteBlackBox is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company developing products to protect websites and valuable online assets by neutralizing traffic from hostile sources, while ensuring the highest quality-of-experience to legitimate users. The Tel-Aviv based startup was founded in 2008 by Shay Rapaport (CEO) and Erez Azaria (CTO) with a simple mission – to help websites prevent losses and boost revenues by providing them with real-time insights into their site’s traffic and user activity. For more information read the full article published in...

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OurCrowd Events in the US – April 2013

Apr 2, 2013 | ,

OurCrowd is meeting with investors across the US! If you’d like to attend one of our many meetups around the U.S., please email events@ourcrowd.com or Audrey Jacobs (our new VP of Business Development) by clicking here. If you indicate which city/event you’d like to attend, she’ll send you an invitation. Note: some events are small, private events, and some have already filled up – we’ll work to accomodate you as best we can.   Boston – April 3, 2013 Visiting companies: Applango Lunch meeting at the offices of Foley Hoag with the American Technion Society Invite online: http://foleyhoag-jonmedved.eventbrite.com/   6:00 pm- 8:00 pm meeting with MassChallenge and the New England Israel Business Council Invite online: http://masschallengeourcrowd2013.eventbrite.com/   Chicago – April 4, 2013 Companies: Abe’s Market, Applango Closed 12PM meetup – email events@ourcrowd.com for an invite   6PM evening event with the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce Closed event – email events@ourcrowd.com for an invite   Seattle – April 5, 2013/ April 7, 2013 Companies: Lucid Energy Friday April 5, 2013, 12PM meeting with Ryan Swanson & Cleveland PLLC Email events@ourcrowd.com for an invite   Sunday,...

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White Hat Hacker, Nir Goldshlager, Saves Face for Facebook—Again…

White Hat Hacker, Nir Goldshlager, Saves Face for Facebook—Again…

Mar 24, 2013 | ,

An Israeli cyber-security specialist saved some major face for Facebook this year. Of course I am referring to Mr. Nir Goldshlager, a cyber-security specialist with the Israeli cyber-security firm—of which there are a growing number—Avnet. Why am I taking the time to present this Nir Goldshlager fellow, you ask?  Well, according to the Times of Israel this year Goldshlager found a way to gain control of any Facebook account he wanted—twice. That’s right, he informed Facebook about the bug, they fixed it—or so they thought—and then he found a bug in the “repaired” code. Not to worry Facebook users of the world, Nir let Facebook know about the second bug as well and they have since fixed the problem. This guy is no rookie, my friends. It turns out this isn’t the first time Mr. Goldshlager has helped out the social networking giant, nor is Facebook the only web-based organization that he has helped. For the second year in a row, he can claim the top spot on the Facebook security hall of fame and in 2011 Nir ranked...

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What we’re hearing: Angel investing in Boston — with Richard Lucash

What we’re hearing: Angel investing in Boston — with Richard Lucash

Mar 18, 2013 | ,

We recently posted about incredible opportunities we’re seeing to invest in Israeli startups, and it got us wondering what angel groups in other parts of the world have been seeing. To get some more color on the Boston tech scene, we went directly to the source. We had the chance to talk to Richard Lucash, a Boston-based attorney for emerging tech companies, about deal flow in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Richard co-founded the LaunchPad angel group and, with Jeff Stoler, recently launched a new angel group called SideCar Angels What’s deal flow like in Boston? In Boston, most angel group deals are syndicated.  The area is the national leader in doing angel syndications.  As part of this syndication effort, members of multiple groups may take part in due diligence.  SideCar is focusing on facilitating deals by filling out syndicated rounds. How do you generate deal flow? A large percentage of our deal flow comes from Boston area angel groups and micro VCs, however, often the companies approach us directly. What types of deals have you been seeing? We see...

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OurCrowd’s Jon Medved on Bloomberg TV, discusses investing in Start-up Nation

Mar 10, 2013 | ,

While on his latest tour to the US, OurCrowd CEO Jonathan Medved was interviewed live by Mark Crumpton on Bloomberg Television’s “Bottom Line.” In the interview Jon discusses investing in Israeli startups and our innovative equity based, crowdfunding platform, OurCrowd. In addition, he responded to questions regarding the strong US-Israeli relations, China’s investments in Israel, Israel’s cyber-security and other various related...

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