Tagged: israel

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

OurCrowd, the world’s largest investment crowdfunding platform and Israel’s most active venture investor, has posted the agenda for the OurCrowd Global Investor Summit scheduled for this coming March in Jerusalem, Israel.  The Summit theme is “Startups: Making a Global Impact.” The OurCrowd investment community currently consists… Read More

January 30, 2019 @ 11:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Crypto proponent Spice VC has been recognized as a top VC in Israel, according to a report published by IVC Research Center. Spice VC is the first ever tokenized VC fund and claims to be the 4th security token ever issued. Israel has been labeled… Read More

January 26, 2019 @ 8:44 am By Cali Haan  |  

Moshe Hogeg, a high-profile Israeli crypto startup founder (Invest.com, Stox, Sirin Labs) previously sued by Invest.com investors, is now being sued by a Chinese cryptocurrency investor who claims Hogeg has been misusing funds he raised in an initial coin offering (ICO) for the creation of… Read More

January 24, 2019 @ 3:51 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Yesterday the Israeli tech company Lending Express, celebrated surpassing $100 million in financing facilitated between small and medium business owners and online lenders and obtaining state permission to open for business in California. The lending platform, led by CEO & Co-Founder Eden Amirav, is poised for further growth… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 9:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Lending Express, an Israeli tech company dedicated to creating a better world of funding for SMBs, has surpassed $100 million in financing facilitated between small and medium business owners and online lenders. Lending Express also obtained state permission to open for business in California. The… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 8:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Leading investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd is jumping into the hot cannabis sector. OurCrowd has launched a $30 million cannabis tech fund called 7thirty Opportunity Fund. OurCrowd said it will build the “world’s leading global cannabis technology venture capital fund.” The new fund is said to… Read More

January 22, 2019 @ 8:52 am By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd portfolio company Hailo has extended its Series A funding round as additional investors gained interest in the firm. Hailo is a developing a “deep learning processor,” that seeks to empower intelligent devices with the performance of a data center-class computer, operating in real time at… Read More

January 13, 2019 @ 8:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

The global leader in equity crowdfunding, OurCrowd, has signed a new investment partnership agreement with South Korea’s KEB Hana Bank. The move by OurCrowd is further indication of its growing relationship with institutional investors and its significant foothold in Asia. In a release, OurCrowd said… Read More

January 7, 2019 @ 11:53 am By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd, the largest investment crowdfunding platform in the world and Israel’s most active venture investor, says it will showcase several portfolio companies at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES.) OurCrowd, while based in Israel, has taken a very global approach in providing access to capital… Read More

December 24, 2018 @ 10:18 am By Cali Haan  |  

The Central Bank of Israel is soliciting position papers from the general public regarding how the country should support and regulate domestic cryptocurrency/security token ventures and distributed ledger technology (DLT) for finance in the country. The bank has assembled a team (“The Interministerial Team for Regulatory… Read More

December 18, 2018 @ 3:14 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

KPMG Fintech Israel, a local partner of the leading global network of professional advisory services firms providing guidance to financial institutions, announced on Tuesday it has named Binah.ai as its new fintech partner. According to KPMG, Binah.ai makes data science accessible with out-of-the-box financial services-focused use cases, combining… Read More

December 18, 2018 @ 8:11 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, announced on Tuesday that Isracard, a credit card company in Israel, has selected Temenos T24 Core Banking. Temenos reported its digital open banking platform will help Isracard achieve its strategic goal of simplifying its systems architecture and enabling… Read More

December 10, 2018 @ 8:37 am By Cali Haan  |  

Poor prices and the “general decline” of crypto markets have claimed another casualty, Globes reports. This time it’s in Ra’anana, Israel, where a Bitmain development facility started in 2016 and expanded in July will be closed this week and 23 employees laid off. The facility’s… Read More

December 9, 2018 @ 1:49 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Over the past two weeks, the Israel Tax Authority has opened tax accounts for hundreds of Israelis it believes failed to report profits from cryptocurrency investing, Calcalist reports. The authority is also striking deals with Israeli crypto exchanges obliging them to report big transactions. Notices… Read More

December 4, 2018 @ 1:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Global investment platform OurCrowd has announced it will host its 5th annual Global Investor Summit this coming March in Jerusalem, Israel. The event expects attendee registration to top 15,000 making it the largest investment crowdfunding conference in the world. The theme for 2019 will be… Read More

December 3, 2018 @ 10:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak is not a fan of cryptocurrencies.  According to a report in Globes, Barak considers crypto and Bitcoin one big Ponzi Scam. Barak served as the tenth Prime Minister from 1999 to 2001 and was the leader of the… Read More

November 29, 2018 @ 4:35 am By Cali Haan  |  

  A lawsuit involving a prominent figure in the “thriving” Israeli crypto sector, Moshe Hogeg, has revealed that one of the country’s most famous crypto companies, Invest.com, was formed in part from from a failed Israeli binary options firm sanctioned internationally for fraud, Times of Israel reports. On… Read More

November 24, 2018 @ 12:46 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A 19-year-old Israeli man with dual citizenship in the US has been sentenced in Tel Aviv to 10 years in prison for making and selling bomb and shooting attack threats against 2000 schools, hospitals, malls, airports, airlines, police stations, and Jewish community centres in the… Read More

November 10, 2018 @ 9:26 am By Xu Gao  |  

IFR of Tsinghua University Launches Global Fintech Venture Competition (2018) at the 5th World Internet Conference On November 8, the 2018 Global Fintech Venture Competition (hereinafter referred to as the “Competition”) was officially launched at the Fintech and Credit Society Construction Forum of the 5th… Read More

November 8, 2018 @ 2:55 am By Cali Haan  |  

A dedicated team established by the Central Bank of Isreal to consider whether the country should establish a state digital currency has determined that risks, complexities, a lack of need and a lack of globally-established standards means that Isreal will not be issuing a central bank… Read More