Author: OurCrowd

Meet The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Israel according to Fast Company

Meet The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Israel according to Fast Company

Feb 19, 2014 | ,

Last week, award-winning tech magazine Fast Company released its annual  report on The World’s Most Innovative Companies. In addition to the noted 50 Most Innovative Companies and the accompanying top 10 companies in various sectors — which included a number of Israeli startups — the magazine recently released a list of the world’s top 10 most innovative companies in Israel. There is no doubt about it, Israel has become a world leader in startup success. Famously titled as the Startup Nation, Israel has earned international acclaim for its cutting-edge innovations, startups and research in the fields of science, technology, medicine and the environment. Israel has more high-tech startups and a larger venture capital industry per capita than any other country. Many attribute Israel’s thriving startup ecosystem to its mandatory military service, immigration history, government tax policy, limited natural resources and the illustrious chutzpah characteristic of Israeli culture that sparks innovation. Fast Company’s report lists Israeli companies that are currently at the forefront of business, challenging industry assumptions and exhibiting economic ingenuity. Each company illustrates the power and potential of innovative ideas and creative execution. The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Israel Nice Systems WaterGen BillGuard Mobileye Vision Technologies Silentium Moovit Wix Outbrain Zerto SecureLogic Read...

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OurCrowd’s Portfolio Company Nativeflow Featured In VentureBeat

Feb 19, 2014 | ,

Leading technology website, VentureBeat, featured OurCrowd portfolio company Nativeflow, which has publicly launched its solution for the next generation of connected devices and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) technology. The newcomer to the mobile security space is Nativeflow, an Israeli company formed by veteran technology entrepreneurs Avi Yehuda and Eitan Bauch. Nativeflow’s founders revealed exclusively to VentureBeat that it has raised $7.5 million in funding to date from Jerusalem Venture Partners and OurCrowd. Nativeflow’s technology lets employees access work information (email, documents, and so on) via their company’s cloud in any mobile application. Workers can securely browse this data and share encrypted files. Meanwhile, Nativeflow prevents IT from accessing any personal information, like social networking apps and photos, which may be stored on the device. It doesn’t touch personal data at all.   Nativeflow raised $2,085,000 from OurCrowd investors in May 2013. Read more on VentureBeat here....

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Join OurCrowd in DC and New York

Join OurCrowd in DC and New York

Feb 18, 2014 |

Join the OurCrowd team and fellow investors at three events in New York and Washington, DC from March 3rd through 6th.  Want private time with the OurCrowd partners (Jon, Audrey, Elan, Gadi) in New York or DC? Please fill out this form here and we will get back to you about scheduling.   Washington DC: OurCrowd supports the AIPAC National Technology Reception Featured speaker: OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved Come learn about the AIPAC Technology Division and hear featured speaker OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved Note: we rolled our prior “late night with OurCrowd” event in with AIPAC’s technology division Sunday, March 2nd: 8 pm – 11 pm The Passenger 1021 7th St. NW Click here to RSVP   Washington DC: Investor breakfast featuring OurCrowd portfolio companies Join OurCrowd and portfolio companies for an exclusive investor breakfast Monday, March 3rd 7:30AM – 9:00 AM Renaissance Hotel – Room Penn Quarter (same room name, different hotel!) 999 9th Street NW Click here to RSVP New York: 92nd Street Y Genius Week: The Genius of the Entrepreneur Catch Jon Medved and Barbara Corcoran speaking for the 92nd Street Y’s “Genius...

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Zack’s App of the Week: Asana

Zack’s App of the Week: Asana

Feb 17, 2014 |

Building scalable, repeatable processes is key to growing a startup into a much bigger concern. Especially in a modern growth-oriented company, where teams are somewhat amorphous, you need the tools to quickly collaborate, help with workflows, and tweak as you go. At OurCrowd, we use Asana to help with exactly this. Asana is our teamwork tool that helps us take our tasks off of email. Working with Asana is similar to working in your email/Outlook. You have different inboxes filled with tasks. You can add multiple people to the same task and even create simple workflows that require sequential collaboration on a particular project. We have Asana tied into a few of our essential processes in-house at OurCrowd, triggering tasks and events that we use to manage our business. For example, when someone signs up on our website, there is regulatory scrubbing that gets kicked off and we do that in part, by creating a task in Asana. When it’s completed, the person in charge of the tasks marks it complete and it gets archived. So, for investors and...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company eVigilo featured in The Times of Israel

Feb 12, 2014 | ,

The Times of Israel, an English-language news website covering Israel, the region & the Jewish world, featured OurCrowd portfolio company eVigilo, which uses every media available to inform people where to go for help in case disaster happens. eVigilo offers national, state, and local governments and large corporations a series of sophisticated emergency alert systems as a service. The more people know, the more prepared — and calm — they are, and eVigilo’s mission is to provide services that keep citizens informed, allowing governments to marshal their resources to dealing with emergencies. eVigilo has signed a $5 million contract to run the “National Message” project for Israel’s Homefront Command, which will be based on the company’s SMART for Governments system, “a real-time, location-based, multi-channel distribution platform. The messages are disseminated through a wide variety of communication channels including, cell broadcast, smartphone applications, desktops, social networks, TV, radio and sirens.”   eVigilo raised $385,000 from OurCrowd investors in September 2013. Read more on The Times of...

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