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Doing well by doing good: Impact investing & the OurCrowd Impact Fund

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The heart of social entrepreneurship is developing ideas that can solve problems and turn a profit. The global impact ecosystem is starting to take shape.

Investments can be powerful. When successful, they can benefit both investors and the invested. Money poured into a business that takes off provides job opportunities and helps the economy grow while investors recoup their money and make a profit too. If that is the capital of investing, then why not use it to improve not only the lives of people involved in business, but everybody else as well? 

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Save the Date for 2020 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit!

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February 13, 2020 in Jerusalem

The OurCrowd Global Investor Summit will again host the startup world in Jerusalem, as it gathers for a week of incredible events.  The Summit is the fastest-growing tech conference in the world and will be the largest business event in Israel’s history.

Last year over 18,000 people from 189 countries registered to attend, as entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, corporate executives, investors and others came to the Innovation Nation to meet, learn, do business – and discover the most historic city in the most exciting country in the world.  As Forbes reported, Summit Week in Israel was “the place to be.”

Click here for 2019 Summit highlights

The Summit provides unprecedented insight into the world of startup venture capital, with exclusive exposure to cutting-edge technologies, the entrepreneurs behind them, and the corporate leaders deploying them.  From its unique position within the global startup ecosystem and as Israel’s most active venture investor, OurCrowd brings together in one place and at one time the players who will set the themes and trends for the coming year.

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5 Trends in AI Making an Impact

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From drones delivering medication to rural clinics to smart sensors helping farmers save water, here are the ways artificial intelligence is effecting positive change in the world

Throughout time, depictions of Artificial Intelligence have inspired mixed feelings, driving us to wonder if we truly want intelligent systems in our lives. An evil swarm of robot soldiers set out to destroy humanity (“SKYNET” from Terminator): BAD. A robot that takes care of all of our household needs (“Rosie” from the Jetsons): GOOD. Waking up after getting married only to find out your better half is a robot (“Fembots” from Austin Powers): BAD. A genius sidekick to help your fleet at all times (“Data” from Star Trek): GOOD. The systems we have created in our imagined world showcase our love-hate relationship with the concept of intelligent machines.

But what once existed only in fantasies is quickly being catapulted into the vanguard of our very existence — from unprecedented disaster response and major revolutions in agriculture, to drastic increases in the accessibility of healthcare and mobility. Due to the advent of cloud computing tools, higher performance processing and sensor proliferation, AI has become more affordable and accessible than ever before. Simply put, AI is a system’s ability to interpret data, learn from it, and then use its knowledge to perform certain tasks. Here are five AI trends changing humanity for the better. 

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Cybersecurity in A Connected World

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From cars, to pacemakers, to ATMs, our networked world is becoming more and more vulnerable to cyber attacks. At the 2019 OurCrowd Global Summit, we heard from pioneers in the cybersecurity industry on how they are developing solutions that will keep us safe from financial and identity fraud, car hackings, and insurance risk in the “Cybersecurity in a Connected World” session.

Mitigating Security Risks for Cars of the Future

Michael Dick, CEO of C2A, discussed the necessity for cybersecurity solutions and what C2A does to mitigate security risks for cars of the future. C2A provides in-vehicle end-to-end cyber protection using a bespoke suite of cyber security solutions. C2A products are based on a deep knowledge of the automotive industry’s pains and requirements, and have been engineered from the ground-up with automotive manufacturers’ needs in mind, as well as yours.

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Are buildings the next battlefront for a greener planet?

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With a lot of attention being paid to potential global effects of climate change – from the Paris Agreement to the proposed Green New Deal in the US – what comes to mind are polluted cities, record-breaking temperatures, water scarcity and more. The issues sound big, scary and often – unsolvable.

But what if we take a moment to zone in on the micro-environments we are exposed to every day; for example… buildings.

That’s right – the everyday building is a battlefront for a greener planet. So says Harvard Professor Joseph Allen, addressing the crowd at the 2019 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit. Outdoor air pollution penetrates indoors and in reality, the majority of our exposure to outdoor air pollution can actually occur when we are inside a building. Allen explained that we spend 90% of our time indoors which means if we live until we are 80, we’ll have spent 72 years living indoors! That being said, the person who manages your building essentially has a bigger impact on your health than your doctor.

Did you know? An early version of a Harvard Business School study even reveals that an optimized indoor environment positively affects our decision-making abilities.

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Class is In Session: Daniel Kahneman’s Lesson on the Art & Science of Decision-making

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At the 2019 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit, Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman revealed what drives our choices in business, science, and life during an insightful Q&A. The pioneer in behavioral economics shared with a captivated audience that intuition can be marvellous but it is often wrong (and unfortunately isn’t helpful when it comes to buying and selling stocks). Kahneman advised that one should delay his intuition until he has all the information. He further shared that to reach big successes one must be “crazily optimistic” or even delusional, as success does not come without risk.

Watch the full Q&A with Professor Daniel Kahneman linked below as well as five top quotes from both the Summit as well as his international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, where Kahneman unveils what drives the way we think:

 
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Honing Harvest: With CropX, this farmer can water crops with precision

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The hardest thing was to see what the results were two days after you watered, to see if you were leaching things down or if you were actually applying enough.

Born and raised in Colorado, Kendall Nye has been farming as long as he can remember. One of the greatest challenges is determining when and how much to water crops without a real-time indication of the plants’ needs.

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