Tagged: ourcrowd

February 10, 2015 @ 7:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Global investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd, has announced that it led a $19.5M Series E funding round for Borro, the UK-NY based, asset-backed online lender. Borro launched in 2009 in the UK, and has gone on to open offices in New York and Los Angeles.  It is a leading… Read More

February 4, 2015 @ 10:08 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Leah Stern has joined OurCrowd’s team as CST: Chief Story Teller for the global hybrid VC / crowdfunding platform. The University of Miami grad also currently serves as producer and anchor for the Israeli Government Press Office News in Jerusalem, as well as acting as a multi… Read More

January 27, 2015 @ 7:18 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

A “last-minute business opportunity” is why an 18-karat white gold bracelet, diamond weight approximately 19 carats, was taken off its owner’s wrist and housed in a highly secure vault or with Citibank or Malca-Amit—temporarily. But jewelry and diamonds are only one type of high-class goods… Read More

January 19, 2015 @ 2:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd founder and CEO Jon Medved practically has a regular gig at Bloomberg.  He recently did several sessions at the financial news network tackling a diverse group of topics such as the price of oil and self-driving cars.  In this discussion with Trish Regan on… Read More

January 6, 2015 @ 11:02 am By Erin Hobey  |  

OurCrowd, the leading global equity crowdfunding platform for accredited investors, reported significant growth and expansion during 2014. Yesterday the company posted achievements on its blog, today more highlights were shared in a yearend summary.  In under two years, OurCrowd has established itself as a major international… Read More

January 5, 2015 @ 1:30 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

The StartUp Nation Scales Up. According to OurCrowd’s blog, “This past week, we waved 2014 goodbye and welcomed in the new year – but not without a bit of self reflection at what an amazing year it’s been for the Startup Nation. In 2014, Israel… Read More

January 2, 2015 @ 5:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Once again the “Last Gadget Standing”, a part of the CES tech love in that kicks off next week in Vegas, has selected a group of sexy gadgets to compete for honor and acclaim of developing products that are “more than just a flash in… Read More

January 2, 2015 @ 4:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has created an interesting graphical display of their past year raising capital for their many diverse young companies.  While the platform is based in Israel the funding platform’s leadership has taken a global approach raising funding for companies based outside Israel as… Read More

December 15, 2014 @ 10:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Jon Medved, CEO and founder of global investment crowdfunding site OurCrowd, hit the screens of CNN last week to talk about the Israeli political scene but more importantly to chat up his innovative funding platform.  The video was presented just prior to OurCrowds global investor… Read More

December 10, 2014 @ 1:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd launched the first day of its Global Investor Summit with a bang generating $4 million invested in startups listed on the OurCrowd.  According to the company, approximately 1000 investors / participants from 27 different countries have descended upon Jerusalem to… Read More

December 7, 2014 @ 4:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd listed Viewbix as one of their top funding company back in December 2013.  Viewbix was quoted raising $1.1 million on OurCrowd at that time.  Viewbix is a company that helps you juice your videos to turn them into “social ads”…. Read More

November 30, 2014 @ 1:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has published a list of portfolio companies that have won various awards.  OurCrowd is different from many crowdfunding platforms in that they invest in each and every one of the companies listed on their portal. It is also interesting that… Read More

November 12, 2014 @ 9:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Now, take startup investing to the next level at OurCrowd’s Global Investor Summit, December 9-10 in Jerusalem, Israel. At the event, accredited investors from around the world will: learn 2015 projections from top VCs and investment analysts speak with the incredible entrepreneurs dominating the Israeli startup scene… Read More

November 10, 2014 @ 8:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Global investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has received a nice recognition with the mentioning of two of their portfolio companies in Globes “Most Promising Israeli Startup of 2014″ list. OurCrowd has taken an international approach to their listed companies but they are based in Jerusalem with… Read More

October 27, 2014 @ 3:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has scheduled an investor summit for this December to be held in Jerusalem, Israel.  The OurCrowd team will convene with angel and venture capitalists from around the world.  The event will also bring together over 40 startups from the OurCrowd… Read More

October 2, 2014 @ 9:17 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

MedAware, a developer of big data analytics for the medical prescription market, announced on Thursday (October 2nd) that it has completed a $1 millionSeries A financing round led by equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd. Together with GE Ventures, it is the two firms’ first co-investment since entering into a strategic… Read More

September 30, 2014 @ 10:52 am By Erin Hobey  |  

IPO marks the first equity crowdfunded company to complete successful public offering OurCrowd, the leading hybrid venture capital equity crowdfunding platform for accredited investors, announced today that its portfolio company ReWalk Robotics (RWLK) has completed its successful IPO on the NASDAQ. The company issued 3,450,000… Read More

September 27, 2014 @ 8:28 am By JD Alois  |  

This past July global equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd published an announcement they had raised $60 million for 46 companies.  In a report filed with TechCrunch yesterday, the pace of growth appears to be increasing as they state they have funded 50 companies with at least $70… Read More

September 19, 2014 @ 2:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

Dror Sharon, co-founder of Consumer Physics based in Israel, visited the studios of CNBC this week to do the the “Power Pitch”.  He had the opportunity to explain the SCiO device – something that is actually pretty cool.  The “laser gadget” scans food and then returns… Read More

September 14, 2014 @ 12:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Leading global equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd enjoyed some very public success this past week as Rewalk, one of the portal’s early portfolio holdings, has begun trading on the NASDAQ.  The initial public offering (IPO) was listed at $12 per share with a 3 million share… Read More