OurCrowd Newsletter: September 14th, 2014

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Startup Roundup

ReWalk Robotics announces pricing of IPO, begins trading on NASDAQ

OurCrowd’s portfolio company ReWalk Robotics, maker of wearable robotic exoskeletons that enable paraplegics to walk, announced on Friday the pricing of its initial public offering of 3 million ordinary shares, at a price of $12.00 per share. Founded in 2001, ReWalk’s mission is to fundamentally change the health and life experiences of individuals with spinal cord injury. To read more about ReWalk’s IPO, click here.

OurCrowd In The News

OurCrowd’s CEO Jon Medved was featured in BOSS Magazine here	OurCrowd’s portfolio company Tapit featured in ZDNet here
OurCrowd’s portfolio company ReWalk featured in Boston Business Journal here	OurCrowd’s portfolio company StackIQ featured in SYS-Con here
OurCrowd’s portfolio company Biocatch featured in Forbes here	OurCrowd’s portfolio company HIL Applied Medical featured in Crowdfund Insider here
OurCrowd’s portfolio company BillGuard featured in AmericanBanker here	OurCrowd’s portfolio company Boatbound featured in GoLocalPDX here
OurCrowd’s portfolio company Webydo featured in MonsterPost here	OurCrowd’s portfolio company Consumer Physics featured in Jewish Independent here

OurCrowd Events

	New York, NY Jon Medved speaking at DC Finance’s East Coast Family Office & Wealth Management Annual Conference September 17th, 2014 For more information please click here	New York, NY Join OurCrowd for an exclusive breakfast event on the resilience of Israel’s tech sector September 18th, 2014 8:30-10:30 AM For accredited investors only Reserve your seat
	New York, NY OurCrowd’s Zack Miller is a featured speaker at Wall Street’s second annual Crowdfinance Conference October 16th, 2014 Click on the link below to Purchase your tickets	Mountain View, CA OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved is a keynote speaker at the California Israel International Business Summit October 22nd, 2014 Click on the link below to Purchase your tickets

Technology Corner

DLD Tel Aviv 2014: All The Best Events At Israel Innovation Week

The DLD Tel Aviv Conference, part of Israel’s Innovation Week, is the largest international high tech gathering held for the fourth consecutive year in the beautiful, bustling startup metropolis of Tel Aviv. The city is the epicenter of the Startup Nation and home to some of the most successful startups and venture capital investors in the world. Check out the list of top events happening in and around Innovation Week.

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

From spy to startup: Meet the Unit 8200 alums providing cyber-security to the private sector

Israel’s elite military signal intelligence group, Unit 8200, employs world experts in hacking and defending networks and devices. With data breaches now a daily news item, a stint at 8200 – or its American counterpart, the National Security Agency – has become résumé gold for entrepreneurs. Here are some of the more high-profile NSAers and Unit 8200 alum defectors and players in the spy-versus-spy game in the startup world.

Israel #4 most educated country in the world

According to data recently released by the OECD, Israel has been named the 4th most educated country in the world – just above the United States. The OECD’s 2014 Education at a Glance report reviewed 34 OECD member countries, and ten non-OECD nations, ranking countries with most educated population and the highest proportion of adults holding a college degree. To read more, click here.

One-on-one with Ziv Yekutieli, CEO of Israeli braintech startup Montfort

Ziv Yekutieli is the CEO of Israeli startup Montfort (Mon4t), a young company developing a solution which will gather data on patients’ neurological state through analyzing their regular use of their smart phone. In an interview, Yekutieli discusses Israel’s position as a ‘hot zone’ for braintech and the industry is verged on major growth. To read more, click here.