Author: OurCrowd

OurCrowd’s portfolio company Viewbix featured on TechCrunch

Dec 4, 2014 | ,

Leading technology website, TechCrunch, featured OurCrowd portfolio company Viewbix. The company Viewbix has developed a unique approach for helping small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) turn their online videos into mini-websites, thereby turning viewers into customers. Video ad startup Viewbix is announcing that it has raised $3 million in additional funding. The company basically wraps videos in a custom player, so if you’re an advertiser, the player can include your branding, as well as the ability to collect contact information and more. Co-founder and CEO Jonathan Stefansky [said] that this approach has been particularly effective on Facebook (Viewbix players work on both Facebook and Twitter), because “the combination of targeting, plus engagement and analytics, provides results that are literally 20x what we see on generic preroll distribution.” Viewbix raised $1,095,000 from OurCrowd investors in September 2013. Read more on...

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Don’t worry – be ‘appy’! Latest news from Startup Nation [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Don’t worry – be ‘appy’! Latest news from Startup Nation [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Dec 1, 2014 |

This week in Startup Nation news: yet another new acquisition, Nazareth-born Amal Ayoub is treating cancer with nanoparticles, Q&A with email wizard Shai Geva, the 12 hottest Israeli apps, and the speaker list for the biggest OurCrowd investor conference announced! How about getting these weekly highlights directly to your inbox? Subscribe now. 3D Systems acquires Israeli CAD company Cimatron for $97M Cimatron, an Israeli firm that is one of the world’s largest makers of 3D CAD/CAM software products for manufacturing, is being acquired by US company 3D Systems. Under the deal, 3D Systems will acquire all outstanding shares of Cimatron, paying about $97 million for its new acquisition. Since 1982, Cimatron has grown to be a key player in the industrial design market, serving clients from the aerospace, consumer electronics, toys, medical, optics and telecom, and automotive industries. Read up on the deal. OurCrowd in the News OurCrowd’s portfolio company Webydo featured in CMS Critic OurCrowd’s portfolio company Highcon featured in Packaging South Asia Don’t worry, be “appy”: 12 hot apps from Israel Made-in-Israel mobile applications have radically changed how we...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Apploi featured on Fox Business

Dec 1, 2014 | ,

OurCrowd’s portfolio company Apploi, a recruiting platform for businesses in high-turnover service and support industries like retail and restaurants, was featured on Fox Business, a leading American business news television channel. In the interview with Risk & Reward‘s Deirdre Bolton, Apploi CEO Adam Lewis discusses how Apploi’s mobile platform aims to simplify the hiring process and also offers technology to turn a higher number of inmates into employees. Apploi raised $1,657,716 from OurCrowd investors in July 2014. View the video on Fox...

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This Week in Crowdfunding: Is Crowdfunding the Perfect Way to Invest in Medical Tech? With Jared Iverson of Healthfundr

This Week in Crowdfunding: Is Crowdfunding the Perfect Way to Invest in Medical Tech? With Jared Iverson of Healthfundr

Nov 30, 2014 | , ,

This Week in Crowdfunding is a newly launched podcast series hosted by OurCrowd’s Zack Miller and David Stark, where they cover the best in Crowdfunding with a frank — and educational — discussion about the issues surrounding Crowdfunding. Every week, they interview successful entrepreneurs, deconstruct campaigns, and hear from the smartest people around on this transformative, massive financing trend. Sign up to listen to the podcast on iTunes * Sticher * SoundCloud!  ——————————————— On this week of the TWiC, Jared Iverson, the co-founder and CEO of Healthfundr joins hosts, Zack Miller and David Stark, to discuss equity crowdfunding for health-related startups. In particular, pay close attention to some of the innovations Healthfundr has developed to help investors better informed investment decisions and how experts can influence this. Listen to the FULL...

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