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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Abe’s Market, a fast growing e-commerce company focused on creating the amazon.com equivalent for the explosive natural and organic products market, was featured on Bloomberg Television’s “Taking Stock.” In the interview, Abe’s Market co-founder Richard Demb discusses the natural food industry and how the company competes with Whole Foods. Abe’s Market raised $680,000 from OurCrowd investors in 2012 and $1,000,000 its 2nd round of funding in 2014. View the video below or play it on Bloomberg...

Leading business and finance website, The Wall Street Journal, featured OurCrowd’s portfolio company Abe’s Market, a fast growing e-commerce company focused on creating the amazon.com equivalent for the explosive natural and organic products market. OurCrowd investors just participated in a funding round of $10 million into Abe’s Market led by Mistral Equity Partners, a leading mid-market consumer-focused private equity firm. Chicago-based Abe’s Market is tapping into the growing interest in healthy lifestyle, natural and organic foods, via its online store, where the company sells packaged food, beauty and other products. Abe’s Market aims to connect consumers with smaller, specialty brands. “Without us, in the early days a lot of these companies were selling their wares at farmer’s markets,” said Mr. Polin, who is Abe’s Market’s president. Launched in 2009, Abe’s Market is still a relatively small operation, and is hoping to expand to millions of customers, using the new infusion of capital. Abe’s Market raised $680,000 from OurCrowd investors in 2012 and $1,000,000 its 2nd round of funding in 2014. Read more on The Wall Street...

Forbes named OurCrowd portfolio company Abe’s Market as one of the 25 most innovative consumer and retail brands. Forbes’ contributor Ryan Caldbeck ranked hundreds of companies to come up with 25 of the most creative and innovative consumer retail companies that are changing the way we live our lives while re-inventing their respective industries. Abe’s Market was listed for “offering the online marketplace natural, organic and eco-friendly products. And for providing stories connecting the people who make products to their consumers.” Abe’s Market raised $680,000 from OurCrowd investors in 2012. Read more on the Forbes site...