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Startup Roundup

Consumer Physics launches Kickstarter campaign for its futuristic SCiO device

Within one day of the campaign’s launch, Israeli startup Consumer Physics (an OurCrowd potfolio company) easily surpassed its $200,000 goal and looks well on its way to raising a sizeable amount of money. SCiO is a tiny spectrometer and allows you to get instant relevant information about the chemical make-up of just about anything around you, sent directly to your smartphone. To read more about the hand-held molecular sensorclick here.

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OurCrowd Events

 Boca Raton, FL
OurCrowd’s CEO Jon Medved will be moderating high-tech event “Imagination Israel”
May 4th, 2014
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Technology Corner

18 lifesaving innovations from the Startup Nation

Israel has been a consistently dominant force in developing innovative technologies to help transform the lives of people worldwide. Israeli researchers have developed an impressive number of technological advances and copious contributions across the various industry branchesfrom medical and agricultural to social-action initiatives and high-tech wonders. Many of these Israeli inventions have lifesaving potential. To read more, click here.

If you’re an accredited investor and interested in investing in some of Israel’s most exciting startups, please register at OurCrowd

Updates You Might Have Missed

 

 Trending Israeli Entrepreneurs

Welcome to the nanotech lab of digital printing pioneer Shlomo Magdassi

Since 1995, 60-year-old Prof. Shlomo Magdassi has worked on formulating revolutionary micro-nanoparticle solutions to deliver active ingredients, whether in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals or inks. His work has had major impacts on the growing industry of printed electronics. Magdassi is now working with Yissum, the Hebrew University’s technology transfer company. To read more about Magdassi’s pioneering work, click here.

Intel investing $6B in its Israeli chip-making facilities

US computer chip giant Intel is to invest close to $6 billion in upgrading its Israeli production facilities which include Jerusalem, Petah Tikvah, Yakum, Tel Aviv and Kiryat Gat. Intel’s first Israel Development Centre opened in 1974 in Haifa and was its first design and development centre outside the US. To read more about the investment, click here.

Leading innovation at one of Israel’s largest Entrepreneurship Events

TAU Innovation Day is an exciting conference celebrating the Israeli entrepreneurial ecosystem. Over the course of two days, entrepreneurs, investors, industry leaders and startup enthusiasts take part in various networking events, lectures and activities. To learn more about the event (May 12-13th, 2014), click here.

OurCrowd’s News Nuggets

 

Zack’s App of the Week: Feedly (OurCrowd blog)
Israeli startup Cups is the Netflix of the coffee world (WallStCS)
Engineering software startup, Datumate, raises $5M  (Israel21c)
NewCO2Fuels aims to transform CO2 and water into fuel (JPost)
Kaltura acquires Israeli startup Tvinci, an OTT TV provider (Geektime)
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