Tagged: israel

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

April 29, 2013 @ 7:41 am By JD Alois  |  

crowdmii (Crowd Made in Israel), was established to support ventures and projects conceived by the recognized innovative qualities of the “Israeli Mind”. The site aims to provide startups developing breakthrough ideas with a global stage that will unveil to the world the new generation of… Read More

March 20, 2013 @ 6:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

Israel based crowdfunding site OurCrowd announced today that it has appointed Audrey Jacobs as VP Investor Relations/Americas, in order to further develop its fast growing community of US and other Western Hemisphere accredited investors. Ms. Jacobs, the first US based employee of OurCrowd, has 20 years of… Read More

March 5, 2013 @ 12:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lucid Energy is the first US company to receive funding from OurCrowd, a new hybrid venture capital/crowdfunding platform. The LucidPipe™ Power System from Lucid Energy uses large water pipelines to generate low-cost, renewable energy. Lucid Energy, a provider of renewable energy systems and developer of… Read More

February 17, 2013 @ 2:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfund Insider recently published a list of white label crowdfunding platforms available today.  As interest in crowdfunding has grown, the diversity of needs and requirements by different crowdfunding groups has created a growing and dynamic market for various platforms and options. Running y0ur own crowdfunding… Read More

November 6, 2012 @ 3:22 am By JD Alois  |  

A young Israeli couple is raising the money to build their new home using crowdfunding, a method that until now was used mostly by politicians and celebrities. On Thursday Linoy and Ohad Rotem registered their “Social Justice House” as a project on the Headstart website,… Read More