Tagged: ourcrowd

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 28, 2016 @ 8:21 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Centaur Analytics, a Greece-based AgTech IoT startup that provides real-time stored agriproducts monitoring and protection solutions, announced on Wednesday it has raised $1.3 million during a recent funding round, which was led by seed-stage venture fund OurCrowd First. The company stated the funds will be used… 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 21, 2016 @ 8:32 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd announced on Wednesday it raised $72 million during its Series C funding round. The company revealed that the latest round’s participants included financial institutions, family offices, and private investors from five continents. Sharing details about the funding round, CEO of OurCrowd,… 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 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 @ 10:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

United Overseas Bank (UOB) based in Singapore has embraced the Fintech revolution. Instead of fighting the inevitable, UOB has formed a partnership with one of the most prominent investment crowdfunding platforms around. OurCrowd is based in Jerusalem but they operate across the globe. OurCrowd has just… Read More

August 16, 2016 @ 9:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

United Overseas Bank (UOB) is determined not to be just an observer in the Fintech revolution. UOB has recently begun conducting training sessions with over 100 bankers to update and educate them on alternative finance.  UOB wants its management to be well-versed in the most… 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

July 3, 2016 @ 12:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has launched a new fund targeting the early stage sector in Australia. The fund, labeled “Our Innovation Australia Fund” is an  early stage venture capital limited partnership (ESVCLP) that will benefit from capital gains and tax programs associated with investing in… 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 27, 2016 @ 11:03 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

This weekend equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd announced the opening of its new office, which is located in the city of Herzliya. The location will reportedly have 15 employees and will be responsible for the portal’s engineering and product development. OurCrowd founder and CEO, Jon Medved revealed:… 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

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

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

April 7, 2016 @ 10:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Sweetch Health, an Israeli medtech startup that has developed a “digital vaccine” for diabetes, has received series A funding in the amount of $3.5 million. The funding round was led by global conglomerate Philips and leading equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd.  The funding also saw participation… Read More