以色列股權眾籌平台疫市發圍 By 信報財經新聞 on June 29, 2020 原文刊於信報財經新聞「StartupBeat創科鬥室」 Jon Medved認為，網上投資方式會成為風險投資業的「新常態」。(OurCrowd網上圖片) 各國因應疫情封城鎖國，對商業活動構成重大打擊。在初創及科技領域，公司管理層未能跟客戶和潛在投資者會面商談，導致不少融資交易難以成事。 線上風投勢成新常態 然而，主打以股權眾籌平台模式投資初創的OurCrowd，其創辦人及行政總裁Jon...

The global COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in a new normal for millions of people around the world. For those who are not healthcare professionals on the frontlines, or instrumental to our food supply or critical infrastructure, work is generally managed from home,...

JERUSALEM – Israel’s reputation for groundbreaking technology is one reason it’s described as the “Start-up” nation. Much of that new technology was recently on display in the “Our Crowd” conference in Jerusalem, displaying solutions for everything from coronavirus...

As more and more offices all over the world are converting to smart-working, can online conferences and events represent a valid alternative to in-person meetings? By ROSSELLA TERCATIN    MARCH 16, 2020 19:42 US President Donald Trump’s former representative for...

13 March, 2020 ALEXANDRA GOVORUKHA DREAM BIG the letters on the ground say at the entrance to Peres Center for Peace and Innovation in Jaffa, Israel. The ninth President of Israel Shimon Peres planned the Center as a place for dreaming, a place intended to give the...

Jun Sawada, President and CEO of NTT, the world's third-largest telecom company, in an interview with "Globes" about Coronavirus, liaison with Japanese companies in Israel and the funds in the Central Capital Funds: "Japanese culture is not aggressive, we can get the...

By BENJY SINGER    MARCH 4, 2020 15:33 The Las Vegas-style OurCrowd event at the Jerusalem International Convention Center (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM) Due to his young age, Ari’s case was more complicated. Transnasal endoscopic skull base surgery, by which the...

By Dr. Rivkah Lambert Adler  February 13, 2020 , 2:46 pm “And He said to me, ‘You are My servant, Yisrael in whom I glory.’” Isaiah 49:3 (The Israel Bible™) Christian Zionist investors, and former NBA star Michael Redd at the Our Crowd Summit in Jerusalem (courtesy:...

▲ OurCrowd合夥人Chaim Meir Tessler則提醒，初創成功脫穎而出，條件包括產品有市場潛力、管理團隊具備執行能力，但更重要的是招聘正確的人。 不少初創都希望獲得投資者資金青睞，如何脫穎而出？成立7年，旗下組合逾200間公司的以色列初創投資平台OurCrowd合夥人Chaim Meir Tessler分享，全個投資團隊每月有約100至200間公司接觸他們尋求投資，他們會挑選約50間進行會晤，最終過關的，可能僅為2至3間。 「作為投資人，你一定要非常揀擇。」Chaim Meir...

▲ OurCrowd行政總裁Jonathan Medved分享，以色列成功實踐科技創新，特別是在半導體、電腦視覺、人工智能等深度科技領域，吸引全球企業與合作。（周俊霖攝） 科企在過去十年成功吸引全球資本青睞，成就了不少初創獨角獸，但展望未來十年情況又會如何？於以色列設立的科創投資平台OurCrowd認為，資金越來越不願意投資種子階段的初創，或會扼殺對人類未來發展有重要意義的技術，呼籲科企界增加支持有意「做大事（Think big）」的項目。 OurCrowd在2月中於以色列舉行年度全球投資者峰會，行政總裁Jonathan...

YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - Mayor Doug Nicholls returned from his trip across the world to Israel. A trip where he learned more about how businesses can flourish in Yuma. He explained he brought back ideas to the growing city. The Yuma mayor attended the Muni Expo...

February 27, 2020 @ 10:46 am By JD Alois Leading global crowdfunding platform OurCrowd will be participating in the forthcoming AIPAC Policy Conference highlighting the robust tech ecosystem in Israel. Since platform launch, OurCrowd has had over $1.4 billion in...

27 February, 2020 VALERY KRASOVSKY Recently, I visited the 2020 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit in Jerusalem. I was so enthralled by the event that I would like to share some of my insights about the global startup scene. The OurCrowd event gathered 23,000 people from...

26 February 2020 Israel’s tech scene is quietly bubbling. Source: Shutterstock When we think of products made in the Middle East, most of us think about the trinkets, rugs, and pots that we might have picked up on holiday while in Morocco, Dubai or perhaps Egypt...

Former U.S. Middle East peace envoy Jason Greenblatt is joining OurCrowd, an Israeli crowdfunding and venture investment company, to build business ties with Arab countries -- including ones that don’t have official relations with Israel. After spending nearly three...

CONTRIBUTOR Steven Scheer  Reuters PUBLISHED FEB 26, 2020 6:39AM EST  Crowdfunding venture investing platform OurCrowd, one of Israel's largest investors, said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump's former special envoy for the Middle East Jason Greenblatt has...

By The Associated Press Feb. 26, 2020 JERUSALEM — A leading Israeli venture capital firm said Wednesday it has hired the Trump administration's former Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt as a business developer for the region. OurCrowd said the former attorney for Donald...

By ZACHARY KEYSER    FEBRUARY 26, 2020 18:54 Jason Greenblatt at the 2020 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit (photo credit: OURCROWD) Former US special representative for international negotiations Jason Greenblatt is joining OurCrowd, a large venture capital investment...

FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2018 file photo, Jared Kushner, left, and Jason Greenblatt, right, listen as American Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a Security Council meeting on the situation in Palestine, at United Nations headquarters. A leading...

Mobile World Congress (MWC) may have been cancelled but tech summits across Europe are ploughing ahead, despite ongoing concerns about the coronavirus. Entrepreneurs announced a spinoff tech event in Barcelona called Tech Spirit within 24 hours of MWC being cancelled...

I attended a very large tech conference this week, the OurCrowd Summit in Jerusalem. There were thousands of people there, and trillions of dollars in the room. So I was surprised that many friends and colleagues whom I would have expected to see there simply did not...

Jon Medved, CEO of OurCrowd, a Jerusalem-based global venture investment platform organization. OURCROWD The State of Israel has welcomed the opportunity to self-style itself as a technology startup nation. Scotland coined the term Silicon Glen to denote its tech...

Amala Balakrishner 20/02/2020, 11:59pm JERUSALEM (Feb 20): Over 23,000 people from 180 countries arrived at Jerusalem last week for what was supposedly the largest tech startup conference in the world. Initiated by OurCrowd, a global venture investing platform – the...

By SHOSHANNA SOLOMON 19 February 2020, 11:44 pm Will Irwin, right, at an OurCrowd conference in Jerusalem writing his name, February 13, 2020. (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel) When the hand tremors of 72-year-old Will Irwin, the CEO and owner of a Rochester, New...

Some 7,000 people from dozens of countries descended on Jerusalem for a festival of Israeli technology. The International Convention Centre was filled-to-burst with people quizzing innovators about their technology. The event took the boffins out of their labs and...

(February 18, 2020 / JNS) More than 23,000 people, including 2,500 in person and several thousand online, from 183 countries gathered for OurCrowd’s 2020 global investor summit on Feb. 13 in Jerusalem. Among them were individuals from each of the 22 countries of the...

Our brand goal is to maximize data potential, according to Rose Hiu, Seagate Technology LLC’s vice president of global Marketing, who spoke to CTech reporter Adi Pick at the 2020 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit, held Thursday in Jerusalem. Earlier that morning,...

OurCrowd, Israel’s most active venture investor and crowdfunding platform, is betting on seed and early-stage startups as part of a long-term strategy for the next decade, having wrapped up 10 years of record growth in the Israeli tech ecosystem. OurCrowd is hosting...

Some 23,000 people from over 180 countries registered for the leading equity crowdfunding gathering in the world Hundreds of the world’s top tech entrepreneurs converged on Jerusalem on Thursday for the 2020 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit, which provided exclusive...

In August 2018, Jonathan and Na’ama Ellman, an Israeli couple living in the United States, brought their two-year-old son Ari to the emergency room for uncontrolled vomiting. Their whole world seemed to shatter when the doctors realized that the problem was caused by...

OurCrowd Ltd., a global venture investment platform and Israel’s most active venture investor, opened on Thursday its annual Global Investor Summit, the largest tech event in the Middle East, by announcing that its annual investor commitments, number of investors, and...

02-17-2020 Emily Jones JERUSALEM, Israel – Israeli innovation is changing the world.   Perhaps there’s no greater display of the power of Israeli tech than the annual OurCrowd summit, which drew thousands of people around the world to Jerusalem last week. OurCrowd is...

As bushfires rage across Australia, Israeli company Edgybees is helping emergency responders get where they’re needed faster and more accurately. “Manned aircraft are unable to fly through smoke and flames, so many unmanned aircraft, especially drones, are used to...

Two Israeli startups and an Israeli university are ramping up activities geared to battling the current coronavirus epidemic and future epidemics. Sonovia is focused on protection, while MeMed and Bar Ilan University are working towards very early diagnosis. On...

Blood tests usually hurt and take too long to be analyzed, according to Yossi Pollak, CEO blood testing startup S.D. Sight Diagnostics Ltd., who spoke to CTech reporter Adi Pick about the need for more accessible blood tests at the OurCrowd Summit in Jerusalem....

Once again, two new election app breaches exposed personal data on millions of Israelis. Last week, Calcalist reported a severe security breach in the campaign management app of Israel’s ruling Likud party, which compromised the personal data of over 6 million...

In Israel, seed investments are getting bigger, according to Lia Cromwell, Principal at UpWest Ventures, who spoke to CTech reporter Adi Pick at the OurCrowd Summit in Jerusalem about trends regarding early-stage investments in Israel. UpWest was founded in 2012 by...

Israeli startup Intuition Robotics announced on Thursday that it raised $36 million in a Series B funding round co-led by Japan’s SPARX Group and OurCrowd, Israel’s most active investor and crowdfunding platform. Additional investors included Toyota AI Ventures,...

Toyota is scouting for smart cities startups, according to Jim Adler, managing director of Toyota AI Ventures, who spoke to CTech reporter Adi Pick at the OurCrowd Summit in Jerusalem about Toyota AI Ventures' investments in Israel. Based in Silicon Valley, Toyota AI...

Amit Goffer, president of standing wheelchair startup UPnRide, spoke to CTech reporter Adi Pick at the OurCrowd Summit in Jerusalem. about the need for the company's device.    UPnRIDE was founded in 2013 and is based in Yokneam Illit, a town in Israel’s north. The...

Image Credit: PlaySight Sports analytics, which refers to the use of data and statistics to measure the performance of players (or teams) and make informed coaching decisions, is an enormous market. Grand View Research pegs its worth at $4.6 billion by 2025, expanding...

Sports analytics, which refers to the use of data and statistics to measure the performance of players (or teams) and make informed coaching decisions, is an enormous market. Grand View Research pegs its worth at $4.6 billion by 2025, expanding at a compound annual...

FC Barcelona has an eye for Israeli sports tech innovation, according to Marta Plana, director of Barça Innovation Hub, who spoke to CTech reporter Adi Pick at the OurCrowd Summit in Jerusalem about what the hub is looking for. The Barça Innovation Hub was founded two...

Nasdaq-listed data storage giant Seagate Technology announced the launch of an innovation center in Tel Aviv on Thursday, seeking to collaborate with local start-ups and enterprises to solve data movement challenges. The American company, headquartered in Dublin, aims...

Fresh spirulina contains 74% protein, according to Lior Shalev, CEO of foodtech startup Simpliigood, who spoke to CTech reporter Adi Pick about the company's edible spirulina products at the OurCrowd Summit in Jerusalem.  Founded in 2015 and based in Hertzliya,...

Sports tech would have improved my career, says former NBA all star and venture partner at ADvantage Sports Tech Fund Michael Redd, who spoke to CTech reporter Adi Pick at the OurCrowd Summit in Jerusalem about his business ventures since retiring from the NBA in...

Phones now only make up 17% of the company’s revenue, according to Jun Sawada, CEO of Tokyo-listed telecommunications company The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT),  whospoke to CTech reporter Adi Pick at the 2020 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit, held...

Every year billions of dollars of availabe student aid money gets left untouched, according to Charlie Javice, CEO and founder of student financial aid startup Frank, incorporated as TAPD Inc., who spoke to CTech reporter Adi Pick at the 2020 OurCrowd Global Investor...

Jon Medved, CEO of Jerusalem-based equity crowdfunding company OurCrowd, spoke to CTech reporter Adi Pick at the OurCrowd Summit in Jerusalem. The OurCrowd global investor summit featured a full day of keynote speeches, investor spotlights, and specialist panels with...

For 86-year-old Prof. Ruth Arnon, nothing compares to waking up in the morning and going to work in the laboratory. When it comes to being excited by experiments, age is simply not a factor for the world-renowned Weizmann Institute of Science biochemist and co-creator...

When a panel of five men and two women took the stage at the annual OurCrowd Summit in Jerusalem last year to discuss the hype around artificial intelligence (AI), they accomplished the trifecta that is often hard to find at conferences: They provided a session that...

The OurCrowd Global Investor Summit has opened in Jerusalem, Israel, with a focus on medical technology – as the Coronavirus causes havoc across the tech world. Speaking at a press conference, OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved admitted the virus, with which a record 14,840...

On the panel titled: “This Way to the Exit”  ​Marta Plana has told industry experts, entrepreneurs, corporate executives, investors and brands about some of the key features that define BIHUB, the club’s knowledge and innovation platform aimed at creating products and...

OurCrowd is arguably the leading investment crowdfunding platform in the world. Based in Israel but listing offerings from companies around the world, OurCrowd has seen approximately $1.4 billion in committed funding since inception. Of the 212 portfolio companies,...

US President Donald Trump’s former representative for international organizations Jason Greenblatt may have left his White House job in September, but he’s not leaving his work in the region, he told The Jerusalem Post at the sidelines of the OurCrowd Global Investor...

I want to share some insights, trends, and takeaways after attending the Fintech Aviv conference, and  Jerusalem Fintech Meetup group this week. For those uninitiated to FinTech –  it is short for Financial Technology and covers Banking, Payments, Credit, Insurance,...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team attended day-zero ‘pre-summit show’ of the OurCrowd Global Investor Summit Israel 2020 this month in order to meet and listen to some of the technology startups showcasing their work… and to hear from some of the specialists...

Stifel Financial Corp. expects wealth management to drive growth in 2020 following a record year for the division, says Chief Executive Officer Ronald Kruszewski. Roughly half of the U.S. bank’s revenue growth is likely to come from wealth management this year,...

For the founder of OurCrowd, a revolutionary venture capital fund that has raised $1.4 billion, the future for Israel's high-tech industry is bright. "I get up every morning and help people make their dreams come true – what more can I ask for?" With starry eyes and a...

OurCrowd, a Jerusalem-based crowdfunding venture capital firm, said it seeks to boost investment in seed and early stage startups, which are seeing a dearth of investors. “There is huge opportunity to invest in game-changing technology companies at their earliest...

The first ‘wearable’ technology innovation is argued to have arrived sometime around the 13th century with the development of the first eyeglasses. In between that time and now we’ve had hearing aids, digital watches, Fitbits, Google Glass and (only if you’re feeling...

by  Adi Rubinstein Published on  02-10-2020 14:43Last modified: 02-10-2020 14:45 Jon Medved (left) in Tel Aviv | Photo: Yossi Zeliger "I get up every morning and help people make their dreams come true – what more can I ask for?" With starry eyes and a huge smile, Jon...

Top online investment platform OurCrowd is out with a note on its Sportstech portfolio companies as a fast emerging opportunity for investors. OurCrowd is holding its annual Summit this week and Sportstech will be just one of the industries the event will highlight....

His relatively brief career in national politics proved to Erel Margalit, the founder and executive chairman of Jerusalem Venture Partners, that being a highly successful businessman and social entrepreneur does not necessarily mean that one can also do well in the...

Former advisor to President Trump Jason Greenblatt will be speaking at the OurCrowd Global Summit taking place on  February 13th. Greenblatt is the Former U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East and architect of President Trump’s Peace to Prosperity plan . This will be...

Jason Greenblatt, US President Donald Trump’s former envoy to the Middle East, and Saul Singer, co-author of the bestselling book “Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle,” (named by NoCamels among 17 Israelis who shaped the decade, along with OurCrowd...

On February 13, thousands of entrepreneurs and technology aficionados will converge on Jerusalem for the 2020 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit. Last year, some 18,000 people from over 180 countries registered for what has become the world’s fastest-growing tech...

I’ll be taking a daytrip on February 13 to the land of unicorns – right here in Jerusalem. For the third year in succession, I’ve been invited to be the main stage host for the largest business event in Israel’s history, the OurCrowd Global Investor Summit. Among the...

OurCrowd, the leading global investment crowdfunding platform and Israel’s leading venture investor, is out with a note on some of its exits in advance of the OurCrowd Global Investor Summit taking place in February, Israel’s largest tech conference and the largest...

Former NBA all-star Michael Redd is joining a major venture investment firm to source new sports technologies and advance development in new products in the sports world. Redd, who is well-known for winning gold in the 2008 Olympics and for his stellar tenure with the...

It’s been a turbulent decade in Israel — one marked by rounds of conflict and divisive politics as the country heads to a third national election in March Economically, however, things looked less bleak. The “golden decade” of 2010-2019 was one of strong growth, due...

Michael Redd, a former NBA star and Olympic gold medalist, has joined the OurCrowd backed ADvantage Sports Tech Fund. According to OurCrowd, Redd is an active venture investor having supported more than 85 companies. Redd will now focus on innovative opportunities...

- Summit theme announced as "Startups: Going Beyond"- Business leaders expected from 150 countries- Over 100 startups to showcase game-changing tech in health, food, climate, cybersecurity and more OurCrowd, the global venture investing platform and Israel’s leading...

OurCrowd, the global venture investing platform and Israels leading venture investor, will host the seventh annual OurCrowd Global Investor Summit on February 13, 2020, in Jerusalem, Israel. The largest tech investment conference in the world, the Summit will also be...

OurCrowd, the largest investment crowdfunding platform in the world, has published a release indicating it expects over 20,000 registrations for its forthcoming global summit taking place in Israel in early 2020. In years past, the OurCrowd Global Summit has emerged...

Korea Securities Depository (KSD) announced on Dec. 2 that applications for participation in Ourcrowd Global Investment Summit 2020 can be submitted until Dec. 15. The summit is an investment attraction event for startups, venture capital firms, angel investors and...

Jon Medved, CEO of equity crowdfund OurCrowd, is one of Israel’s leading AI investors. But, the enigmatic, Hawaiian shirt-loving VC says, deep tech brings its own deep and unique issues for entrepreneurs. Unlike many other tech fields, building a successful AI...

Investors around the world "are looking at Israeli stocks, but they really want to get into Israeli start-ups," OurCrowd CEO and founder Jon Medved told The Jerusalem Post. BY EYTAN HALON    OCTOBER 17, 2019 21:12   4 minute read.   OurCrowd founder & CEO Jon...

OurCrowd, Israel’s leading global investment platform and most active venture investor, announced the launch of its 13th office worldwide in Sao Paulo, Brazil last week to tap into the “next key region for innovation.” The announcement was made at an OurCrowd event in...

By JD Alois Leading global crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has had a stellar year. Multiple portfolio companies have IPOed’ or been acquired providing positive outcomes for platform investors. As Crowdfund Insider reported earlier this year, OurCrowd has topped USD $ 1...

OurCrowd, the global venture investing platform and Israel's leading venture investor, has announced that it will host its sixth annual OurCrowd Global Investor Summit on 13 February 2020, in Jerusalem, Israel. The Summit returns as the largest business event in...