Author: OurCrowd

OurCrowd’s portfolio company BriefCam featured on Bloomberg TV

Dec 9, 2014 | ,

OurCrowd portfolio company BriefCam, a developer of video analysis software that is capable of creating synopses of long clips and identifying and tracking objects and activities, was featured on Bloomberg Television’s “The Pulse.” In the interview, BriefCam CEO & President Dror Irani speaks with Elliott Gotkine about the company’s latest security tool that condenses an hour-long video summary of an area into one minute and the launch of a version in an app for personal use in smartphones. BriefCam raised $2,235,670 from OurCrowd investors in September 2014. View the video on Bloomberg...

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Israel #1 in Cleantech, a win for Viewbix, a $53 million round for data storage, Person of the Year [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Israel #1 in Cleantech, a win for Viewbix, a $53 million round for data storage, Person of the Year [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Dec 8, 2014 |

Raise a glass of (clean) water to Israel, which retained it’s position as #1 in Cleantech for another year. In addition, OurCrowd portfolio company Viewbix raised $3 million to bring interactive video players across the web. Learn about Israeli tech’s role in the ninth Nobel Prize for Bell. And the ‘Person of the Year’ award goes to… find out below. Start getting this weekly newsletter via email: Subscribe now. Kaminario ‘stores’ away $53M to take on the flash storage market Israeli solid state drive (SSD) data storage provider Kaminario has raised $53 million. Founded in 2008, Kaminario is currently registered in Newton, Massachusetts, and has its development center in Yokneam, Israel. The company has developed software for managing organizational storage systems based on flash memory. The current round will help accelerate Kaminario’s growth, and expand its sales and marketing setup and its support for the Kaminario K2 flash storage solution. Read up about Kaminario. OurCrowd in the News Spotlight: [OurCrowd Portfolio Company] Viewbix Raises $3M To Wrap Video Ads Inside Interactive Players OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved interviewed on TLV1 Radio...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company ReWalk featured on CNN Money

Dec 8, 2014 | ,

OurCrowd portfolio company ReWalk, developer of the FDA approved ReWalk exoskeleton device, was featured on CNN Money. ReWalk is the developer of the FDA approved ReWalk exoskeleton device, providing paraplegics with an independent, natural walking experience that provides them numerous social, psychological, and physical benefits. ReWalk (RWLK) is the brainchild of Israeli scientist Dr. Amit Goffer who, after an ATV accident in 1997, became a quadriplegic. Goffer grew frustrated with the limitations of wheelchairs. “Once I realized there was not an alternative to the wheelchair, I couldn’t understand why,” said Goffer. He says he had always been an entrepreneur and he began prototyping the ReWalk in his garage. ReWalk raised $1,320,000 from OurCrowd investors in June 2013. Read more on CNN Money here. The article also contains a video segment on ReWalk, watch it below:...

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