Author: OurCrowd

OurCrowd’s Portfolio Company Freightos featured in TechCrunch

Leading technology website, TechCrunch, featured OurCrowd portfolio company Freightos. The company offers a Software as a Service cloud solution for automating pricing and sales in the trillion dollar freight (cargo) industry. Freightos, the Israel-headquartered startup that operates an online freight network to bring efficiencies, such as real time quotes, to the freight industry, has raised $4.6 million Series B funding. The round was led by Aleph and ICV, with follow on investment via OurCrowd, the equity-based crowdfunding platform. It brings the total raised by the company to $6.3 million. The Freightos Network is described as enabling freight vendors to collaborate automatically with other vendors and customers in order to provide “instant door-to-door quotes”.   Freightos raised $550,000 from OurCrowd investors in November 2012 and $110,000 in a follow-on funding round in 2013. Read more on...

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OurCrowd Events March-April

OurCrowd founder & CEO Jon Medved and team members will be hosting events around the world in the upcoming weeks, with the CEOs of our new startups and guest speakers. Scroll down to learn more and RSVP, we hope to see you at one of our events. Be sure to RSVP on the links below. Space is limited!   March, 2014: March 24th – Jerusalem, Israel  What: OurCrowd King David Investors Event featuring OurCrowd and the latest startups we are investing in. Featuring: Danna Hochstein Mann, Partner at OurCrowd and the founders of our latest startups. When: 5:30-19:00PM RSVP here   March 26th – Durham, North Carolina What: Jon Medved speaks at the Duke Israeli Innovation and Start-Up Culture Conference Featuring: OurCrowd’s founder and CEO Jon Medved When: 9:00AM-12:00PM Information here   March 26th – Greensboro, North Carolina What: Jon Medved speaks to the students and community of the American Hebrew Academy on “Israel’s Technology Phenomenon & The Importance of Entrepreneurship At All Ages” Featuring: OurCrowd’s founder and CEO Jon Medved When: 7:30PM Livestream it here or contact Ellen Green to attend  ...

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From Ideas to Assets: Common Investor Pitfalls with Intellectual Property and How to Avoid Them

OurCrowd launched a new webinar series called ‘Teach-In Tuesdays’. In this series, we’ll explore investing in early-stage Israeli companies, identify and explain influential tech trends, stay up-to-date with the crowdfunding industry, and examine actionable insights from our own experience running OurCrowd’s investment platform. Yesterday, we held a webinar as part of the OurCrowd Teach-In Tuesdays series on the importance of understanding the fundamentals of Intellectual Property rights in order to make informed investment decisions and how to avoid common investor pitfalls with IP. Additional topics covered in the webinar: The various types of Intellectual Property (IP) and how they work Why it is important for investors to read patents Techniques for valuing intellectual property and how investors can do their own ownership research Management, strategizing and budgeting of patent portfolios for companies at different stages of development Featured expert: Heidi Brun, leading patent attorney and Joint Head of the Patent Department at Eitan, Mehulal & Sadot. Ms. Brun  is an expert in all the high-tech fields and specializes in turning complicated concepts and highly mathematical ideas into readily understandable patent applications.    ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Be on the lookout for our next...

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OurCrowd Portfolio Company Argo (ReWalk) Featured on Reuters TV

OurCrowd’s portfolio company Argo (ReWalk) was been featured on Reuters TV. Argo has developed an exoskeleton device called the ReWalk, providing paraplegics with an independent, natural walking experience that provides them numerous social, psychological, and physical benefits. A powered exoskeletal suit is giving paraplegics a new lease on life, allowing them to walk on their own – even up stairs. The ReWalk is the latest example of a developing technology that might one day make wheelchairs a thing of the past for spinal cord injury patients. Ben Gruber reports.   Argo (ReWalk) raised $1,280,000 from OurCrowd investors in June 2013. View the video below or play it on Reuters...

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OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved on Bloomberg TV’s “Charlie Rose”

On his recent visit to the US, OurCrowd CEO Jonathan Medved was interviewed by talk show host Charlie Rose on Bloomberg Television’s “Charlie Rose.” In the interview Jon discusses Israel’s booming technology sector, investing in early stage startups and OurCrowd’s innovative equity-based crowdfunding platform.   View the video below or play it on Bloomberg...

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