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Startup Roundup

Wix raises $127M in successful IPO

After countless rumors and speculations, Wix, the Israeli DIY website building platform has finally gone public. Wix managed to raise over $127M on the Nasdaq, pricing each share at $16.50. The IPO marks yet another Israeli company to go public and the third in 2013 to do so. To read more about the Wix’s IPO, click here.

OurCrowd In The News

OurCrowd’s CEO Jon Medved featured in Haaretz

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OurCrowd’s Lucid Energy featured on Bloomberg TV

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OurCrowd’s tapit inks partnership with Google

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OurCrowd’s Zack Miller writes about our diligence process

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Technology Corner

PillCam makes colonoscopies a thing of the past

Given Imaging, an Israeli medical technology company, has developed a non-invasive method of detecting intestinal disorders with their flagship product – PillCam, a pill-sized camera ingested by patients, giving doctors a better and easier way of seeing what’s happening in the stomach and intestines. To read more about this exciting technology, click here.

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 Trending Israeli Entrepreneurs

Israel on track to break 1994 M&A record

M&A in the Start-up Nation of 2013 is on fire. With over $4B in transactions, including a $1B acquisition of Waze by Google and the $800M IBM shelled out for Trusteer, Israel is on the right track to having its highest rate of M&A activity since 1994. To read more about Israel’s red-hot M&A scene, click here.

GE Ventures partners with OurCrowd 

GE ventures recently announced it’s joined OurCrowd in a co-investment partnership, enabling the massive global conglomerate to invest in select early stage Israeli startups. To read more about this great partnership, click here.

5 amazing brain technologies from the Start-Up Nation

The Start-up Nation is associated with many things, including awesome brain power. So, naturally, brain-related innovations are in abundance here. OurCrowd lists 5 amazing brain related Israeli technologies here.

OurCrowd’s News Nuggets

 

Israel’s answer to Instagram – Mobli raises $60M (TechCrunch)
Wilocity partners with Cisco to create new wireless standard (GeekTime)
Israel to build 5th largest solar-power plant on the planet (Mashable)
RackSpace buys Israeli startup, ZeroVM (Times of Israel)
Israel’s Sensible Medical Innvoations raises $20M (Globes)
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