One of OurCrowd's latest investments, SiteBlackBox is a 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.
To learn more about the finance round click here, and read more about SiteBlackBox's solution here.
Technology Corner
Intel looking to acquire gesture control firm Omek Interactive
Intel is hatching plans to acquire Israeli gesture recognition and tracking technology firm Omek Interactive.
Gesture control technology is attractive as it offers a way to simplify increasingly sophisticated devices, draw customers to cool sci-fi-like devices, and chew up a lot of computing power that can be produced by their future chips.
To learn why you'll never use your iPad the same way again click here.
Trending Israeli Entrepreneurs
Israeli CEO of Makhteshim Agan: "Develop technology now to fight future food shortage"
Erez Vigodman, former head of Strauss and current CEO of a global pesticide company, Makhteshim Agan, wants to see countries around the world offering incentives to entrepreneurs of agriculture technology. To read more about Erez's vision to supply the world with good, go here
How to Value a Startup — Part 2
The art of science? OurCrowd's Jeremy Pressman is back with the 2nd part of "How to Value a Startup", where he drills down on how to use cash flow stats to really determine how much a company is worth. Click here to read more.
SiSense recently closed a $10 million funding round for its “big data” technology that competes with giants like SAP and Oracle.
What makes SiSense better than the competition is that they don't just process a small sample of data, they consume it all. Click here to find out more.
OurCrowd's News Nuggets
As Cyber-Terrorists attack Israel, native hackers fight back (The Times of Israel)
IBM research celebrates 40 years in Israel (Israel21C)
OurCrowd is listed on Forbes' "5 companies you need to know about" (Forbes)
