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Top 10 #OCSummit18 updates

Top 10 #OCSummit18 updates

Dec 17, 2017 |

In under 2 months, we open the doors at the 2018 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit. Here are our top 10 #OCSummit18 updates: Jerusalem’s mayor invites you: Explore the Startup City before and after the Summit. Arriving in Jerusalem early?  Tourboapp is offering a discount for local on-demand tours; use code OC10 for 10% off!  Book your hotel now. Summit attendees get special rates at the city’s top hotels.  Get ready to network: Coming soon! Our exclusive Summit networking platform. Send private messages to set up one-on-ones with peers at the conference.  Look who’s talking: Rockstar startups from Arbe to Zebra and multinationals like Honda; sneak a peek at the agenda.  Dress for tech: FashionTech comes alive at the Summit with Intesa Sanpaolo.  Demo Theater is back. This year with more tech taking center stage (and more popcorn) with startups like Innoviz, NSLcomm, and BioCatch. The ultimate Hackathon. Compete alongside VCs, incubator partners, and the crowd to develop featured technology into an actual startup concept. Interested in sponsoring? Summit sponsors get exposure with the startup ecosystem, VCs and Fortune 500 companies....

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DJI & Edgybees, a Cinderella Story: Corporations Giving Startups a Step Up

DJI & Edgybees, a Cinderella Story: Corporations Giving Startups a Step Up

Dec 7, 2017 |

DJI & Edgybees, a Cinderella Story: Corporations Giving Startups a Step Up Sarah Lavin, OurCrowd Traditionally, corporate innovation has been an internal R&D game. For 200 years, major corporations like Ford, IBM, and GE developed their innovative products from within. While the last half of the 20th century saw a move towards more M&As, with companies quickly absorbing technology that brought new promise into their operations. M&As worldwide have recently remained relatively stagnant, rising from 2014-2015 only by 2.7% percent. In the last few years, informal partnerships between corporate giants and tiny startups are starting to flourish. Semi-Formal Engagement The move away from internal R&D and M&A doesn’t spell the end for corporate hunger for new technologies; in fact, more companies than ever are chomping at the bit for startup breakthroughs. They are engaging scouts worldwide, creating or supporting incubators, and looking for ways to generate more momentum. There has been an explosive growth of accelerator programs according to The Brookings Institute, which is reporting an average increase of 50% in such programs from 2008 to 2014 with around...

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Portfolio Meetups: HR Meetup Recap

Portfolio Meetups: HR Meetup Recap

Nov 16, 2017 |

Many people don’t realize that the most important element of successful startups is talent, and how that talent is managed and structured. That’s why a great HR team is critical for technology to move forward. Yesterday, we enjoyed meeting HR leadership at the latest in OurCrowd’s Portfolio Meetups series! Representatives from our portfolio companies, including prooV, CropX, Zebra, Airobotics, BioCatch, CrediFi, Intuition Robotics, Bizzabo, Consumer Physics, VocalZoom, HIL, Syqe, mPrest, Elminda, TechSee, Freighos, Elastic Media, CyberX, and more, got together to listen to a lecture by HR powerhouse on “Building Smart Organizations” over brunch. Sigal is a strategic-organizational consultant who works with VCs and management teams, and is a trailblazer in combining human capital and business insights.     Here are some of the takeaways we put together: Know your business model inside and out. Every HR professional should be working towards one goal: Growing a core group of team members into a smart network of professionals that are moving towards the trajectory laid out in the company business model.  To do this, it is critical to know the business model from inside and out....

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