Author: OurCrowd

OurCrowd’s portfolio company BioCatch featured on Fast Company

Oct 8, 2014 | ,

OurCrowd portfolio company BioCatch was featured in award-winning tech magazine, Fast Company. BioCatch has developed a novel form of authentication used by online businesses to continuously guarantee users are who they say they are, by analyzing their behavioral and cognitive responses. One security company, Israel-based biometrics authentication firm BioCatch, recently turned visualizations of attacks on their clients into an online art gallery. The result, called the Art of Fraud, is essentially an advertisement for the company’s services. It’s also a perfect example of how security firms are turning to data visualizations and graphic representations of attacks to serve their clients and mitigate online attacks. BioCatch raised $3,334,500 from OurCrowd investors in February 2014. Read more on Fast Company...

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Experience Sukkot in the Startup Nation with OurCrowd

Experience Sukkot in the Startup Nation with OurCrowd

Oct 7, 2014 | ,

Join the OurCrowd team and fellow investors for two events next week at our private Sukka at the Waldorf Astoria in Jerusalem and overlooking the beach in Tel Aviv. There will good food, great drinks, wonderful company and stellar presentations, including four of our latest startup investments. We hope to see you at one (or both!) of our events and wish you a Shana Tova and Chag Sameach! Scotch & Wine at the Waldorf Astoria- Jerusalem Join Jonathan Medved (OurCrowd CEO), the CEOs of our latest portfolio companies and the OurCrowd team for drinks in Jerusalem’s first indoor sukkah at the Waldorf Astoria. When Sunday, October 12th 5:30- 7:30PM Where Waldorf Astoria Agron St. 26, Jerusalem For more information and to RSVP, please click here. Wine & Dessert overlooking the beach- Tel Aviv Join Jonathan Medved (OurCrowd CEO), the CEOs of our latest portfolio companies and the OurCrowd team for wine and dessert in the sukkah overlooking the Mediterranean and Tel Aviv. When Tuesday, October 14th 5:30- 7:30PM Where Aish TLV Sukka Hayarkon 165, Tel Aviv For more information and to...

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This Week In Crowdfunding: How individual investors can invest in top real estate deals

This Week In Crowdfunding: How individual investors can invest in top real estate deals

Oct 5, 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!  ——————————————— One of the most exciting manifestations of crowdfunding can be found right now in the real estate sector. Investment properties, which were once owned wholly by large real estate firms, are now finding crowdfunding investor interest. And vice versa — individuals, who once struggled to get access to ‘insider’ deals — can now invest in real estate via platforms like Realty Mogul. On this week’s TWiC, hosts Zack Miller and David Stark hosted Realty Mogul’s CEO and founder, Jilliene Helman, to talk about how her firm got off the ground and is now working with both top-flight real estate development projects and attracting investor interest. Watson on Crowdfunding tackles the complicated — but really important — issue of accreditation...

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Where We’ve Been: OurCrowd events quarterly update for July-August-September

Where We’ve Been: OurCrowd events quarterly update for July-August-September

Oct 2, 2014 | ,

It’s been a busy few months at OurCrowd! Throughout July-August-September OurCrowd has hosted numerous events worldwide and we wanted to take a moment to look back at where we were, who we invested in and see where we’re going to be next quarter. We’re so proud of what the OurCrowd community has accomplished over the past three months — from events hosted to the companies funded — and are looking forward to continuing on this journey together in the months to come. Without further ado, here is a glimpse into all the excitement happening at OurCrowd: Where We’ve Been Over the course of the past three months, OurCrowd founder & CEO Jon Medved and team members have traveled the world, hosting various events with the CEOs of our latest startups and guest speakers. We’ve held a total of 14 events, in 10 different cities, across 4 continents! In case you missed them, here are some event highlights: July 1st – Kicking off the quarter, OurCrowd held an exclusive investor event in Paris, France. Hosted by Ayache Salama & Associés, attendees enjoyed a nice...

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GE Ventures makes first investment via equity crowdfunding platform, OurCrowd

GE Ventures makes first investment via equity crowdfunding platform, OurCrowd

Oct 2, 2014 | , , , ,

We’re proud to announce that MedAware, an OurCrowd portfolio company, has closed its investment of $1 million from GE Ventures and OurCrowd investors. This financing round marks the first investment the venture capital arm of GE, GE Ventures, has made as part of the strategic co-investment partnership OurCrowd signed with the firm back in November 2013. We believe we have reached a real milestone and transformative moment in the world of high-tech finance. This investment underscores the fact that the startup investment playing field is being levelled — OurCrowd investors get access to the same deals multi-billion dollar corporations are seeing, at the same terms. We are looking forward to driving innovation forward with GE Ventures, whose unequalled expertise and experience in a broad range of technologies and businesses add real value to our portfolio companies and to our investor community. “We are excited about the potential for MedAware to solve the huge problem of prescription error via their impressive big data technology,” said Jon Medved, founder and CEO of OurCrowd. “The fact that our partner, General Electric, has joined together with us in...

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