May 16, 2019 @ 10:39 am By JD Alois  |  

MultiVu, a tech company creating 3D imaging solutions, has closed on a $7 million seed round led by OurCrowd – Israel’s most active venture investor. OurCrowd was joined by Cardumen Capital and Hong Kong-based investment firm Junson Capital. MultiVu said it intends to use the… Read More

May 13, 2019 @ 9:52 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Police from the Tel Aviv Police Cybercrime Unit have arrested two Israeli citizens accused of running a Dark Net media site called “Deepdotweb.” Several other French, German, Dutch and Brazilian nationals have also been arrested in an operation coordinated between local authorities and the US… Read More

May 13, 2019 @ 12:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Commercial real estate crowdfunding platform iintoo has stepped up and acquired the assets of defunct platform RealtyShares. Deal terms were not disclosed. The news was revealed in a release from iintoo. RealtyShares, previously a leader in the real estate crowdfunding sector, shocked the market when… Read More

May 13, 2019 @ 11:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Zebra Medical Vision, a medical imaging analytics company, has received FDA 510(k) clearance for “HealthPNX – an AI alert for pneumothorax (PNX), based on chest X-rays.” Zebra is an OurCrowd portfolio company. Pneumothorax is described as a condition in which there is an accumulation of… Read More

May 7, 2019 @ 9:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

QEDIT, a provider of zero knowledge proof blockchain, has announced a new partnership with Ant Financial, VMWare and RGAX – a subsidiary of the Reinsurance Group of America. The announcement follows a significant $10 funding round led by MizMaa Ventures with participation from Ant Financial,… Read More

May 5, 2019 @ 9:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

Beyond Meat Inc. (NASDAQ:BYND), completed an initial public offering (IPO) last week raising approximately $240 million on a valuation of $1.5 billion at $25/share. Once listed on NASDAQ, Beyond Meat jumped far beyond its initial pricing quickly rising in value topping $3.8 billion at over… Read More

April 23, 2019 @ 9:17 pm By Cali Haan  |  

An Israeli named Afik Wore has been indicted for allegedly stealing 6.2 million shekels ($1.7 million USD) worth of cryptocurrency from a friend who taught him how to trade it, News 1 reports. According to the outlet, Eliat resident Alexei Yaromenko, a cryptocurrency trader since 2013,… Read More

April 18, 2019 @ 11:33 am By Cali Haan  |  

Sirin Labs, a “blockchain smartphone” company that raised $255 million in two ICOs, has confirmed it is laying off employees, Israeli news outlet Globes reports. Contrary to media reports of larger numbers let go, Sirin Labs says it is only laying off 15 of 60… Read More

April 3, 2019 @ 8:36 am By Cali Haan  |  

Cryptomining company Bitfarms (formerly Blockchain Mining) lost $18.2 million during the 2018 crypto bear market and will shortly be delisted from the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE), Isreali news outlet Globes reports. Meanwhile, the company has reportedly sought to establish a foothold in Ontario, where… Read More

March 26, 2019 @ 9:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Lending Express is a Fintech on a mission to become the leading site for SME lenders – globally. Lending Express has offices in both the US and Israel, which has a hot Fintech sector. To date, the site has helped to fund over $125 million… Read More

March 25, 2019 @ 3:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

For the second year in a row, investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has been recognized as the most active venture investor in Israel. The ranking was provided by venture data tracking company Pitchbook.. OurCrowd recently held its annual investor summit which drew over 18,000 registrations as… Read More

March 23, 2019 @ 9:30 am By Cali Haan  |  

A comprehensive malware called “CardinalRAT” has been used to target two Israeli Fintech companies, “who write software relating to forex and cryptocurrency trading,” cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Network writes. Attackers appear to be motivated by financial gain. Once installed, CardinalRAT malware allows attackers to: Collect victim information  Update… Read More

March 18, 2019 @ 11:13 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A judge presiding over a district court in Tel Aviv has ruled that a branch of Union Bank in the Herzliya industrial district acted unreasonably when it closed accounts belonging to IsraMiner, a division of the Ukrainian cryptomining company Yashraminer, Calcalist reports. Judge Limor Bibi,… Read More

March 15, 2019 @ 7:05 am By JD Alois  |  

HealthNet Global (HNG), part of the Apollo Hospitals Group, India and Zebra Medical Vision, an AI Imaging software company, have announced a new collaboration that will focus on validating and deploying AI-based tools at scale across India. The Apollo Hospitals Group is Asia’s largest and… Read More

March 14, 2019 @ 5:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, a committee at the Israel Securities Authority (ISA) investigating the applicability of regulation pertaining to initial coin offerings (ICOs) and digital assets submitted their final report. The Committee was first established in August of 2017 during the height of the ICO boom. The… Read More

March 11, 2019 @ 9:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd is the largest securities crowdfunding platform for early-stage firms in the world. Last week, OurCrowd held its annual Summit in Israel. The Summit was host to over 18,000 participants, from 187 different countries, making it the largest event of its kind in the world…. Read More

March 10, 2019 @ 12:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week was a big one for Fintech and Israel. At the beginning of the week, the annual Tel Aviv Fintech Week event took place. Tel Aviv Fintech is a three-day affair that started with blockchain and ended with women in Fintech. On Thursday, the… Read More

March 7, 2019 @ 4:58 am By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd, the largest investment crowdfunding platform in the world, has announced the launch of the OurCrowd Medtech Fund joining their existing portfolio of 18 funds. The $50 million fund will focus exclusively on investing in disruptive medical technology – a fast-growing sector of healthcare. This… Read More

March 7, 2019 @ 2:09 am By JD Alois  |  

During the opening of their annual summit with over 17,000 participants, global investment platform OurCrowd announced the launch of a new Impact Fund in partnership with Social Finance Israel – the Israeli impact advisory leader. The new fund is looking to raise $30 million and… Read More

March 7, 2019 @ 1:00 am By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd, the largest investment crowdfunding platform in the world, has topped $1 billion in funding raised. The online investment platform has provided growth capital to 170 individual firms and 18 different funds in the six years since the platform launch. Alongside the milestone funding amount,… Read More