Tagged: israel

May 30, 2014 @ 6:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a little over two weeks until its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter comes to an end, Tel Aviv-based company  Consumer Physics, an OurCrowd portfolio company, has raised over $2.1 million dollars from more than 10,000 backers for its new consumer electronic project SCiO. The project… Read More

May 21, 2014 @ 6:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Ok – I still don’t completely know what exactly Sensibo is – except it can control air conditioners –  (not exactly very sexy) but the Sensibo team have put together an awesome pitch video.  This comes under the category of taking something practical and mundane… Read More

May 14, 2014 @ 7:55 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Aiming to land the first Israeli spacecraft on the moon, nonprofit organization and leading contestant in the prestigious Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP) competition SpaceIL launched its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo Tuesday afternoon. The campaign is designed to not only raise funds for the highly innovative… Read More

May 12, 2014 @ 10:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Israel is now the most likely place for people to start a tech firm. Tel Aviv based Upround Ventures has a unique value proposition.  Founded by Esther Loewy, the young company targets the gaps that exist after startups graduate accelerator programs or are initially funded… Read More

May 4, 2014 @ 4:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

Consumer Physics, an OurCrowd portfolio company, has easily zoomed past their $200,000 target on Kickstarter and stands at over $670,000 today.  With over a month left in their crowdfunding campaign the consumer electronic product “SCIO” appears poised to easily break into the million dollar level…. Read More

April 28, 2014 @ 8:54 am By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd Has Now Raised $43 Million for 36 Companies. Israel based OurCrowd, a leading global equity crowdfunding platform, has closed a $25 million Series B funding round. According to OurCrowd this is the largest investment round in the equity crowdfunding sector to date. The investment… Read More

April 14, 2014 @ 9:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Israel based, global crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has scheduled a series of events as part of their ongoing initiative to share the benefits of participating in their accredited investor platform. OurCrowd, one of the largest platforms of it’s kind in the world, has aggressively marketed their… Read More

March 25, 2014 @ 1:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

Freightos, the global online freight network, today announced the completion of a $4.6 million Series B funding. The series was led by Aleph and ICV, with follow on investment from crowdfunding platform OurCrowd. Global trade has expanded by 400 percent in the past two decades,… Read More

March 16, 2014 @ 4:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

Jon Medved, the CEO of investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd, has been making the television rounds of late.  His most recent media visit is with well known interviewer Charlie Rose.  While Medved continues his theme of discussing the booming Israeli tech startup scene, he also shares… Read More

February 27, 2014 @ 8:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Jon Medved, CEO and founder of equity crowdfunding portal OurCrowd CEO, was recently interviewed during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.  Medved states that “it is a great time to be a tech investor” and that Israel is a “startup nation” with lots of… Read More

February 20, 2014 @ 11:50 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Back in December OurCrowd shared a list of six companies that had used the Isreali equity crowdfunding platform to raise over $1 million. NativeFlow topped that list at $2.1 million raised. Now it has been revealed that NativeFlow has raised $7.5 million to date. Jerusalem… Read More

January 22, 2014 @ 10:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

With the number of tech accelerators globally now more than 1,500, there has been similar growth in Seed and Angel investments. Ironically, the number of venture firms making Series A and later stage investments in technology startups is actually declining, with 61% of US early-stage… Read More

December 26, 2013 @ 11:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A group of makers from Israel have invented a device that they say solves the ten finger touch UI problem. The Grippity is a tablet with a transparent screen allowing the user to type through the back of the device, and it is currently crowdfunding… Read More

December 19, 2013 @ 10:54 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Jon Medved spent some time in Texas last week following a promise made to Texas Governor Rick Perry. As the CEO of OurCrowd, Medved’s mission is to connect investors worldwide with the robust Israeli tech startup scene. The short video below explains this mission. Medved… Read More

December 9, 2013 @ 10:14 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Jon Medved of OurCrowd recently appeared on Bloomberg’s “On The Move Asia” discussing how equity crowdfunding and ourCrowd are democratizing access to capital for Israeli startups. Specifically, he addresses an often-cited criticism of equity crowdfunding: why can’t these deals just get funding from angel investors… Read More

December 6, 2013 @ 12:31 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Today Isreali innovation news provider NoCamels provided a list of six Israeli startups that have raised over $1 million on OurCrowd, an Isreali crowdfunding platform with global ambitions. OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved says that his platform is now the world’s largest equity crowdfunding platform after… Read More

November 4, 2013 @ 9:32 am By Charles Luzar  |  

OurCrowd made waves recently after announcing that the Israeli equity crowdfunding platform has driven over $23 million in funding for 28 companies to date. CEO Jon Medved claims that this makes OurCrowd the “world’s largest crowdfunding-for-equity site.” RELATED | Jon Medved: OurCrowd Now The World’s Largest… Read More

October 10, 2013 @ 10:42 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In a seemingly random interview done on a taxi ride from Nazareth to Jerusalem, OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved shares some interesting statistics about his company. He says that OurCrowd is the largest equity-based crowdfunding platform in the world. We have now emerged as the world’s… Read More

August 13, 2013 @ 9:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Mimoona, a crowdfunding platform created in Israel in 2011 that previously was targeting the white label / self crowdfunding sector of the industry, has now adjusted their strategy and has decided to focus on the Fashion Industry. In an interview on Bloomberg, Nadav Trenter Moser… Read More

July 9, 2013 @ 10:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdfunding expert Sherwood Neiss just tweeted that Israel is ramping up efforts to implement a framework for crowdfunding. Access to capital for all! Israel to introduce #crowdfunding legislation similar to #USJOBSAct. Nations are lining up. What country is next? — Crowdfund Investing (@woodien) July 9,… Read More