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We’re Hiring! Career Opportunities at OurCrowd (November 2015)

We’re Hiring! Career Opportunities at OurCrowd (November 2015)

Oct 29, 2015 |

Named one of the hottest startups in Israel in 2015. That’s right: OurCrowd is growing at a record-breaking speed while maintaining the startup mentality upon which we were founded. OurCrowd is a leading equity crowdfunding platform for accredited investors who wish to invest in Israeli and global early stage companies. Managed by a team of well-known investment professionals and led by serial entrepreneur Jon Medved, we select opportunities, invest our own capital and bring these startups to our constantly growing global investor community. Our goal is to deliver an equity crowdfunding solution at a scale never accomplished before. OurCrowd has raised over $160 million in equity crowdfunding for its 80+ portfolio companies which include leading companies, such as Borro, BillGuard, Consumer Physics (SCiO), mPrest, and ReWalk, OurCrowd’s first portfolio company to complete a successful IPO on the NASDAQ. OurCrowd is currently seeking extraordinary people who are excited about our innovative. Join us and become a part of our unparalleled team! ——– Senior Web Developer Job Description: OurCrowd is looking for an outstanding senior full-stack developer to join our team in Hertzliya, to develop an innovative and industry-changing...

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How do you profit by improving the world?

How do you profit by improving the world?

Oct 20, 2015 | ,

Last week, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania hosted its inaugural Wharton Israel Conference, bringing together expert panelists from multiple industries to discuss the conference mission: accelerating innovation for global social impact. The conference covered a wide variety of industries, from food and water to energy, security, health care, and communications. Among the featured companies and people leveraging innovation from Israel to improve the world were several of OurCrowd’s portfolio companies, including: CropX (Food & Water); BioCatch, BreifCam, and eVigilo (Security); ElMindA, HIL, ReWalk, PulmOne, SightDx, Surgical Theater, and Syqe (Health Care); and OurCrowd itself (Finance). Andrew Heyer, CEO and Managing Director of Mistral Equity Partners, and OurCrowd Founder & CEO, Jon Medved, spoke at the event about finance innovation, improving the world, and combining venture capital protections with the power and accessibility of crowdfunding to promote the best Israeli innovation. In the following video, Jon Medved addresses the state of the Startup Nation leading up to the Wharton Israel Conference: State of Startup Nation: OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved addresses Wharton Israel Conference OurCrowd & Wharton: Collaborating for impact...

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[The Wall Street Journal] Crowdfunding: Exciting, Expensive, Tough to Exit

Oct 16, 2015 |

“Look, for instance, at OurCrowd, launched 2½ years ago. The firm has funded 80 technology companies, mostly in Israel, with $170 million from approximately 1,500 investors putting up as little as $10,000 apiece, says chief executive Jon Medved. With startups staying private much longer than they used to, ‘you gotta play here,’ rather than in the public markets, he says. The firm is seeking to generate ‘double-digit’ annual returns, says Mr. Medved. One of its portfolio companies, ReWalk Robotics Ltd., went public last...

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NICE Systems sells unit for $100M, Israeli impact investing, & the banking tech revolution [OurCrowd Newsletter]

NICE Systems sells unit for $100M, Israeli impact investing, & the banking tech revolution [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Aug 10, 2015 |

What’s new? Israel’s NICE Systems sold a unit to Battery Ventures for $100M. What’s trending? Social responsibility and impact investment. What’s changing? The global and Israeli banking industry as it adopts new tech innovations. Read up on these news items and more, below. Start getting this weekly newsletter via email: Subscribe now Battery Ventures buys NICE Systems unit for $100M NICE Systems sold its Physical Security Business Unit (PSBU) to technology investment firm Battery Ventures for $100 million. According to the terms of the deal, PSBU, which provides video management, video analytics, and situation management solutions, will be spun out into an independently operating business. This is the second division NICE Systems has sold in as many months. In July, the company completed the sale of its intelligence and cyber division to Elbit Systems for $118 million. Learn more. OurCrowd & Portfolio Companies in the News  Consumer Physics featured on Voice of Israel MorphiSec featured in Business Insider CrediFi featured in CNBC ElMindA & Consumer Physics featured in Crowdfund Insider ReWalk featured on Bloomberg Businessweek Influitive featured in Entrepreneur Doing well...

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PRESS RELEASE: TWO OURCROWD PORTFOLIO COMPANIES ELMINDA AND CONSUMER PHYSICS NAMED TO WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM 2015 LIST OF “TECHNOLOGY PIONEERS”

Aug 5, 2015

MATERIALS FOR RELEASE: PDF download here Photos and logos: download here — ELMINDA AND CONSUMER PHYSICS NAMED TO WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM’S MOST PROMISING TOP 49 TECH COMPANIES WORLDWIDE OurCrowd Israeli Portfolio Companies Awarded with WEF’s “Technology Pioneers 2015” OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved, “Equity crowdfunding will provide investor access to unprecedented opportunities.”                 Jerusalem/Geneva. August 6, 2015 – OurCrowd, the world’s leading equity crowdfunding platform, today announced that two of its portfolio companies, ElMindA and Consumer Physics were named by the World Economic Forum to their prestigious list of “Technology Pioneers 2015,” a selection of 49 of the world’s most innovative companies. This annual award is granted to companies “poised to have a significant impact on business and society” and past recipients have included companies like Google (2001), Twitter (2010), AirBnB (2014), Dropbox (2011) and Kickstarter (2011). Consumer Physics and ElMindA were selected from among hundreds of applicants by a selection committee of 68 academics, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and corporate executives. Notable members of the committee include Arianna Huffington (founder, Huffington Post) and Henry Blodget (editor-in-chief, Business Insider). The committee...

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