Tagged: israel

February 14, 2023 @ 3:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

  This week, top global investment marketplace OurCrowd is holding its Global Investor Summit in Israel. The event is the largest of its kind as investors and entrepreneurs from around the world to convene to discuss opportunities in innovative private firms. For the first time,… Read More

February 7, 2023 @ 9:14 am By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd is returning next week (February 15, 2023) with its investor summit, held in Jerusalem. The OurCrowd Global Investor Summit focuses on online capital formation and is the largest gathering of its kind globally. OurCrowd hit the pause button on the event following the emergence… Read More

February 7, 2023 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Supply chain startup Wisor AI has raised an $8 million seed round led by Team8. The funding round also included participation from Ocean Azul and Hico Investment Group, as well as pre-seed investors fresh.fund, Atooro Fund, The Dock, Seed IL Ventures, and Izaki Ventures. Founded… Read More

February 4, 2023 @ 10:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Paxos, the “comprehensively” regulated blockchain and tokenization infrastructure platform, announced it is launching “an engineering research & development center of security and cryptography excellence in Israel.” Paxos plans “to expand its Israel engineering center with senior, staff and principal engineers with specialized skills in enterprise-grade… Read More

January 31, 2023 @ 8:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Guardz, a cybersecurity and insurance platform for small businesses, has emerged from stealth, announcing a $10 million Seed round. According to a note from Guardz, the round was led by Hanaco Ventures with the notable participation of online investment platform iAngels. Other investors include GKFF… Read More

January 29, 2023 @ 11:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

Freightos (Nasdaq: CRGO), a global freight booking and payment platform, has listed its shares on the Nasdaq. Freightos is a long-time OurCrowd portfolio company and represents another exit for the global securities crowdfunding platform. Freightos went public as part of a SPAC deal sponsored by… Read More

January 19, 2023 @ 7:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Forter, the Trust Platform for digital commerce, announced the acquisition of Immue, a bot detection company based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Forter’s first acquisition will “not only strengthen the company’s existing fraud management capabilities but add Immue’s domain-specific bot expertise.” Bots are used “by the… Read More

December 31, 2022 @ 3:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Israel’s reserve bank recently issued a conditional license for the launch of the nation’s second virtual bank, which is being co-led by Nir Zuk, the American-Israeli founder of the cybersecurity company, Palo Alto Networks, Inc. As first reported by The Times of Israel, Bank of… Read More

December 6, 2022 @ 11:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Recently global investment platform OurCrowd announced that it had topped $2 billion in capital commitments on its platform. OurCrowd is based in Israel but caters to a global market of both investors and private firms in need of growth capital. When the milestone was announced,… Read More

December 3, 2022 @ 5:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CyVers claims it is a leading provider of “proactive” Web3 Security for the centralized, decentralized finance and smart contract applications “via detection and interception of crypto attacks across blockchains.” The company has announced an $8 million investment round “led by Elron Ventures.” This funding is… Read More

December 1, 2022 @ 11:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Shield, an Israel-based Regtech, has raised $20 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Macquarie Capital and joined by UBS Next, and Mindset. Notably, global securities crowdfunding platform OurCrowd backed the funding round after participating in the Series A. Shield is a… Read More

November 28, 2022 @ 8:37 am By Alex Zeltcer  |  

There’s no doubt in the minds of financial organizations and anti-laundering regulators that Know Your Customer (KYC) verified accounts prevent fraudulent activity– and that’s exactly the problem. In the early 1990s, governments around the globe had a growing concern about preventing the increasingly connected banking… Read More

November 21, 2022 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) Innovation Program is partnering with Fintech company Liquidity Group, the “first” Israeli company “to join the AED 2 billion (USD 545 million) program.” The partnership will “support Liquidity Group’s establishment of an R&D center in Abu Dhabi to develop… Read More

November 19, 2022 @ 10:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Checkout.com, the cloud-based payments service provider, unveils its expansion into Israel and a strengthening of its commitment to the region “with the launch of a research and development hub in Tel Aviv, Israel.” The launch of a new office in Israel is “a continuation of… Read More

November 16, 2022 @ 9:05 am By JD Alois  |  

In partnership with the Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO), OurCrowd has announced the launch of a global artificial intelligence (AI) hub.  Based at Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM)  Hub71, the AI hub has been named Integrated Data Intelligence Ltd (IDI) and will develop easily adoptable… Read More

November 9, 2022 @ 10:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd Global Summit is the Largest Event of its Kind Global securities crowdfunding platform OurCrowd is bringing back its annual Global Investor Summit after a COVID-induced hiatus. At the same time, OurCrowd has announced that it has topped $2 billion in capital commitments keeping it… Read More

November 4, 2022 @ 9:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Simetria Trading Solutions and Finhaven Technology, operator of FinhavenTM Private Markets, have announced a new liquidity partnership, according to a company statement. Simetria is an Israel-based Fintech utilizing blockchain technology to boost efficiency for secondary trading. Simetria is the only Fintech in Israel to have… Read More

October 23, 2022 @ 7:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Like many other markets around the world, the hot tech sector in Israel is not as hot as it was last year. According to LeumiTech’s periodic report, in the first nine months of 2022, Israeli Tech companies raised $12.3 billion or 30% less than in… Read More

October 21, 2022 @ 11:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Global investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has partnered with India-based JITO Angel Network (JAN). According to multiple reports, the deal is for OurCrowd to provide access to investment opportunities for JITO’s members. OurCrowd is one of the largest digital VC platforms in the world that provides… Read More

October 12, 2022 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MarketFinance, which claims to be one of the leading fintech credit and payments companies, has secured a £30 million credit facility from Viola, the Israeli technology investment group, in order “to expand its B2B Pay Later embedded finance offering for SMEs.” Available in Sterling, US… Read More