Tagged: ourcrowd

March 9, 2016 @ 9:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Intel has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Replay Technologies. Details of the transaction were not disclosed but was reported on the Intel blog. The chatter put the purchase price at around $175 million OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved, whose firm participated in Replay Technologies Series… Read More

March 6, 2016 @ 11:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Last week global equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd announced a significant partnership with United Overseas Bank (UOB).  The OurCrowd arrangement is part of the platforms deeper push into Asia and the robust startup scene. UOB is the third largest bank in Southeast Asia by total assets…. Read More

March 2, 2016 @ 11:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

  United Overseas Bank (UOB) has formed a partnership with OurCrowd to provide equity crowdfunding in Southeast Asia. UOB is a leading Asian banking with over 500 offices in 19 different countries and territories around the world. Incorporated in 1935, UOB is based in Singapore… Read More

March 2, 2016 @ 11:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Influitive, an advocate marketing expert firm, announced that the company has raised an additional $8.2M in a Series B extension round. The additional financing comes from new investors Leaders Fund and Export Development Canada (EDC). Returning investors include Georgian Partners, Relay Ventures, BDC Capital IT… Read More

February 28, 2016 @ 8:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has invested in many innovative new firms but one sector has caught significant interest: Mobile Technology. The advent of the iPhone was a seminal occurrence that transferred a convenient communication device to mobile super-computer in your pocket.  The data crunching… Read More

February 10, 2016 @ 2:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd, one of the largest investment crowdfunding platforms in the world, has received a cool recognition for its OurCrowd First seed fund. IVC-APM has bestowed the title of OurCrowd First being  Israel’s Most Active VC Fund. According to info provided by OurCrowd, the report analyzed… Read More

February 7, 2016 @ 1:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Leading marketplace lending platform Prosper acquired an Israeli startup towards the end of 2015 called BillGuard.  BillGuard’s service allows consumers to track their spending across many accounts, budget effectively, and protect their money from wrongful charges while monitoring a user’s credit score. It may also… Read More

January 31, 2016 @ 10:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd, a global equity crowdfunding platform, hosted over three thousand investors, startups and corporate partners from 50 different countries at their second Annual Summit last week. Founder and CEO Jon Medved opened up the event with a presentation that encapsulated his platform’s success while sharing a… Read More

January 25, 2016 @ 9:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd is perhaps the leading investment crowdfunding platform in the world. Founded in 2013 by the ubiquitous CEO Jon Medved, OurCrowd has set up shop in one of the hottest startup markets in the world.  But while  nominally based in Israel, OurCrowd has chosen a… Read More

January 25, 2016 @ 7:49 am By JD Alois  |  

mPrest, a software provider of “mission critical monitoring” and control software for the Internet of Things (IoT) has received a $20 million Series A investment led by OurCrowd and GE Ventures. mPrest, an Iron Dome software provider, will use the new capital to expand its… Read More

January 24, 2016 @ 9:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd is hosting its second annual Global Investor Summit this week in Jerusalem and organizers state this will be far bigger than year prior. According to OurCrowd, approximately 3,000 investors, entrepreneurs and corporate partners will join to participate in the conference… Read More

January 13, 2016 @ 10:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Global investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has created an infographic, alongside their industry report, highlighted 2015 milestones. OurCrowd, while based in Israel, has offices around the world taking a truly international approach to internet finance. Some of the data points provided by OurCrowd include: Approximately 10,000… Read More

January 13, 2016 @ 9:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has published a report on the “sudden ascendancy and dominance of private investing”. Their numbers indicate that venture capital has more than doubled since 2013 to $135 billion during 2015.  Crafted in partnership with Xconomy, the document highlights the dramatic shift… Read More

January 7, 2016 @ 9:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd is perched in one the hottest startup markets in the world: Israel. Between a 1000 and 1500 new startups are launched every year in a country with a relatively small population. Some of these companies have gone on to become… Read More

January 4, 2016 @ 6:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last Thursday the portion of the law that dictates the structure of selling shares to the public was amended to make it easier to raise capital. While Israel is one of the hottest startup markets in the world, apparently the securities regulations have been slow… Read More

January 4, 2016 @ 11:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Offering up its insight on e-commerce retail, OurCrowd announced theories on the industry and its current state. The platform shared: “E-commerce has become a market segment with a number of multi-billion dollar companies in just a few short years. With holiday season retail sales reports coming… Read More

December 28, 2015 @ 4:07 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With the 2016 calendar just around the corner, Jerusalem-based equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd reflected on the past twelve months in its recent weekly newsletter. The platform shared: “It’s been a busy year for the ‎Startup Nation: multi-million dollar acquisitions, new key figures in the Israeli… Read More

December 15, 2015 @ 1:00 am By JD Alois  |  

In the Fintech 100 list published yesterday, there was a single equity crowdfunding platform included in the top ten on the list. OurCrowd, based in Jerusalem but truly a global investment platform, jumped from number 22 last year to number 10 in ranking. OurCrowd has raised… Read More

November 29, 2015 @ 7:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Trendlines, an Israeli based tech company that targets the medical and agricultural industry, recently completed its IPO on the Catalist of the SingaporeExhcange trading under the on ticker symbol SGX:42T.  The company reports that S$38.7 million was raised with IPO proceeds of S$25 million adding to pre-IPO investment…. Read More

November 9, 2015 @ 8:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Jon Medved, founder and CEO of equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd, caught up with CNBC while at the Crowdfunding Asia conference in Singapore this week.  Medved explained in an interview that OurCrowd wants to provide access to the smart investor into deals in which they have… Read More