Tagged: israel

December 22, 2016 @ 9:29 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Australia’s equity crowdfunding platform VentureCrowd, announced on Wednesday it has closed its first Israeli funding round and secured $155,000 for AI email firm Knowmail. According to the funding portal, the $155,000 was raised in convertible notes, as part of a larger $3 million funding round,… Read More

December 6, 2016 @ 7:19 am By JD Alois  |  

Global equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd is planning to hold the worlds largest equity crowdfunding event this coming February in Jerusalem.  The gathering is also being described as the biggest investor event ever in the Startup Nation. OurCrowd will showcase the evolving the face of investing… Read More

November 18, 2016 @ 5:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd’s co-founder and CEO Jon Medved is one of the most vocal advocates in the investment crowdfunding sector.  Medved has created one of the most prominent funding marketplaces, eschewing borders and definitions to raise capital for promising early stage companies around the globe. A best… Read More

November 7, 2016 @ 10:02 pm By Jessica Pham  |  

BondIT  has received a strategic investment from China based Wind Information. According to BondIT, the two companies have partnered to bring artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to wealth management. Specific terms of the deal were not revealed. The two companies intend to start in mature… Read More

November 1, 2016 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Global investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has announced the creation of the first digital health fund labeled OurCrowd Qure.  OurCrowd has partnered with Johns Hopkins University in the creation of the fund with management tasked to Dr. Yossi Bahagon and Allen Kamer. OurCrowd Qure will accept up… Read More

October 27, 2016 @ 7:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Alec Ellison, a long-time Wall Street veteran, and former Vice Chairman of Jefferies and Chairman of the Tech Investment Banking Group, has joined OurCrowd’s Advisory Board. OurCrowd is one of the leading investment crowdfunding platforms in the world OurCrowd CEO, Jon Medved, said they were honored… Read More

September 21, 2016 @ 8:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Global investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has just announced raising $72 million in a Series C funding round. Alongside this announcement, OurCrowd has provided an infographic with some data points for the platform.  OurCrowd, based in Jerusalem, has taken a decidedly international approach to uncovering opportunities… Read More

September 11, 2016 @ 10:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Celeno Communications, an Israel-based creator of wifi chips and other technology, has closed a $38 million funding round to fuel company expansion. The round was led by Red Dot Capital Partners – a sister entity of Singapore-based Temasek. Temasek is owned by the government of Singapore and maintains an… Read More

August 29, 2016 @ 4:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

iAngels, an equity crowdfunding platform that provides access to the hot tech market in Israel, has now raised over $50 million since launch having deployed $20 million in 63 portfolio companies. iAngels empowers smaller, accredited investors by connecting them with deals they have already thoroughly… Read More

August 28, 2016 @ 8:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd is ranked number 2 in the Geektime Investors Index that ranks investors in the red-hot tech sector of Israel for the first half of 2016. This is a pretty incredible accomplishment as OurCrowd is competing with all of the big… Read More

August 16, 2016 @ 9:57 am By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd has changed the date of its annual investor summit.  The young event has evolved into becoming perhaps the biggest investment crowdfunding conference in the world. The annual gathering has jumped forward a month and will now be held on February 15th & 16th in… Read More

August 1, 2016 @ 9:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Inevitably investment crowdfunding will be measured largely by the returns delivered to investors. A path to an exit opportunity is important for investors to understand to be able to evaluate whether or not an investment makes sense for their portfolio.  OurCrowd, a global investment crowdfunding… Read More

June 28, 2016 @ 12:33 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Israel’s equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd announced the dates for its third annual Global Investor Summit. Sharing details about the event, the OurCrowd team explained: “The OurCrowd Global Investor Summit is one of the leading events in the Israeli high-tech industry. Over the last… Read More

June 25, 2016 @ 3:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd, has joined a group of investors, advisors and agricultural industry leaders to help launch Radicle, a new AgTech focused accelerator. Radicle was founded by AgTech venture capital firm Finistere Ventures, Cloud Break Advisors and a a group of founders including Bayer, DuPont… Read More

June 24, 2016 @ 10:34 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, global investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd announced it was among the winners of the 2016 Red Herring Awards. Since its establishment in 1996, the tech magazine reportedly reviews thousands of candidates for each of its three Top 100 awards  for Asia, Europe and the Americas…. Read More

June 21, 2016 @ 8:41 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Between 2010 and 2015 global investment in fintech ventures has grown from $1.8 billion to $22.3 billion, according to Accenture’s latest report on the global fintech landscape. Accenture (NYSE:ACN) has joined a new fintech hub for start-ups based in Tel Aviv, Israel dubbed “The Floor.” As… Read More

May 22, 2016 @ 7:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Jon Medved, founder and CEO of OurCrowd – an accredited crowdfunding platform, spoke to CNBC last week and addressed the launch of Title III or Reg CF crowdfunding. Medved, never one to mince words, stated there are certain problems with Reg CF, as it stands… Read More

May 11, 2016 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd, has announced the launch of a new “social investor app” coordinated with FinovateSpring 2016 taking place in San Jose this week.  OurCrowd called the new app a “significant expansion” of its equity crowdfunding site.  The new app enables registered investors… Read More

May 5, 2016 @ 8:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Israel is one of the hottest startup ecosystems in the world today. The small country has consistently punched above its weight class by turning out consecutive startup hits – many in the Fintech sector. The highly educated, risk-embracing Israelis have taken the title of Startup Nation…. Read More

April 24, 2016 @ 10:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Leading investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has registered its 6th successful exit as portfolio company Crosswise has been purchased by Oracle. The transaction was revealed in Israeli media on April 15th revealing that Oracle paid $50 million for the “machine learning based cross-device data” company.  The transaction… Read More