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STARTUP BEAT – Hong Kong
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...
NO CAMELS: OurCrowd’s Jon Medved: Pandemic Dramatically Accelerating Already Existing Tech Trends
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,...
MISSIONS BOX: Israel Hosts OurCrowd Conference to Showcase Innovation
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...
JERUSALEM POST: Because of the coronavirus, conferences are moving online. Will it last?
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...
SIGMA SOFTWARE: OurCrowd: Meeting Our Customers and Building New Connections In Israel
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...
GLOBES: “מידע חופשי הוא המפתח למנוע אסונות גדולים ומגפה”
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...
THE JERUSALEM POST: From cancer to coronavirus, OurCrowd innovates for humanity
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...
BreakingIsraelNews: Christians Investing In Israel Are Guided By God’s Word
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:...
HKET: 資深風險投資人分享 合作只揀有大志的初創
▲ 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...
HKET: 科技投資平台擬增支援種子項目 開拓未來技術
▲ 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...
CBN NEWS: ‘Light to the Nations’: Israeli Startups Flock to Jerusalem to ‘Heal the World’ With Groundbreaking [VIDEO]
FOX NEWS: Yuma mayor returns from trip to Israel
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...
CROWDFUND INSIDER: OurCrowd will Attend AIPAC Conference to Showcase Israeli Startups
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...
SIGMA SOFTWARE: My OurCrowd Insights: Trends Over the Next 10 Years and 5 Coolest Startups
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...
TECH_HQ: Sand, souqs & software – Israel shines for tech startups
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...
BLOOMBERG: Trump’s Mideast Envoy Joins Israeli Fund to Build Regional Ties
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...
NASDAQ: Ex-Trump envoy Greenblatt joins Israel’s OurCrowd as partner
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...
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Ex-Trump Mideast Envoy Joins Israeli Venture Capital Firm
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...
THE JERUSALEM POST: Jason Greenblatt joins OurCrowd as Middle East special envoy
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...
WASHINGTON POST: Ex-Trump Mideast envoy joins Israeli venture capital firm
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...
SIFTED: European tech events ploughing ahead despite coronavirus fears
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...
INC.: 3 Ways to Make Real Connections at Networking Events That Go Way Beyond Small Talk
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...
FORBES: How Israel Became A Technology Startup Nation
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...
THE EDGE SINGAPORE: Israel moves to find cure for coronavirus
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...
TIMES OF ISRAEL: This Israeli tech helped ‘grandpa’ stop spilling his drink
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...
THE JEWISH CHRONICLE: The tech expo where it’s affordable to invest
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...
JEWISH NEWS SYNDICATE: Israel’s OurCrowd hosts largest equity crowdfunding event in history
(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...
CTech: CTalk: Seagate Technologies Opens Tel Aviv Innovation Center
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,...
No Camels: OurCrowd Bets On Early Stage Startups, Marks Record Growth In Israeli Tech Ecosystem
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...
The Medialine: Global Tech Gurus Converge on Jerusalem for OurCrowd Investor Summit (VIDEO)
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...
The Jerusalem Post: How Israeli technology saved 78-year-old Leah from skin cancer
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...
CTech: From Foodtech to Quantum Computing: 2020’s Top Tech Trends According to OurCrowd
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...
CBN NEWS: ‘This is Our Destiny’: Israel’s OurCrowd Founder Says Israeli Innovation is the Fulfillment of Prophecy
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...
לפני החדשות – Disrupting the future: Jeff Kahn, CEO of Strategy3i, at OurCrowd Summit 2020
ערוץ 13: בתכנית “לפני החדשות” עם אודי סגל, ערוץ 13 כתבה על ועידת ההשקעות של OurCrowd
ISRAEL21C: Israeli tech aids Australia in accurate fire response
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...
ynet: אנשי עסקים מתגייסים למען צה”ל
i24News: Top Tech & Innovation Trends at OurCrowd Summit in Jerusalem [VIDEO]
ynet: אנשי עסקים מתגייסים למען צה”ל
ISRAEL21C: Israel races to find solutions for coronavirus
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...
CTech: CTalk: This Startup Develops Painless Blood Tests
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....
CTech: CTech’s Sunday Roundup of Israeli Tech News
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...
CTech: CTalk: In Israel, Seed Investments Are Getting Bigger, Says Venture Capitalist
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...
NO CAMELS: Israeli Tech Company Intuition Robotics Raises $36M For Robot Companions
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,...
CTech: CTalk: Toyota Is Scouting for Smart Cities Startups, Says Toyota Ventures Exec
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...
CTech: CTalk: This Wheelchair Alternates Between Sitting and Standing Upright
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...
Mako: “קובי ואני היינו כמו אחים. אני מרוסק”
VentureBeat: PlaySight trained AI on thousands of hours of videos to understand sports
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...
VentureBeat: PlaySight trained AI on thousands of hours of videos to understand sports
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...
CTech: CTalk: FC Barcelona Has an Eye for Israeli Sports Tech Innovation, Says Exec
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...
The Jerusalem Post: Data giant Seagate launches Tel Aviv innovation center
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...
CTech: CTalk: Tasting Algae Ice Cream With Simpliigood CEO
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,...
CTech: CTalk: Sports Tech Would Have Improved My Career, Says Former NBA All-Star
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...
CTech: CTalk: NTT Is Looking for Israeli Partners, Says CEO
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...
CTech: CTalk: Billions in Student Aid Money Is Left on the Table, Says Student Loan Entrepreneur
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...
CTech: CTalk: Artificial Intelligence Is Not Overhyped, Says OurCrowd CEO
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...
The Jerusalem Post: 86-year-old Copaxone creator has no intention of slowing down
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...
Times of Israel: What to know about AI and diversity ahead of OurCrowd Summit 2020
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...
מעריב: יועצו לשעבר של טראמפ: “צריך להפסיק להשתמש במונח ‘התנחלויות'”
החדשות 13: גרינבלט לחדשות 13: “כפי שישראל שגשגה – גם הפלסטינים יכולים”
כלכליסט: ענקית האחסון סיגייט פותחת מרכז חדשנות בתל אביב
NBA: “קובי ואני היינו כמו אחים. אני מרוסק”
החדשות 13: גרינבלט לחדשות 13: “כפי שישראל שגשגה – גם הפלסטינים יכולים”
Telecom News: ב-2019 ביצעה אוורקרווד כ-86 השקעות ורשמה 8 אקזיטים ו-6 רכישות/מיזוגים
טלנירי: אוורקרווד גייסה מהקמתה התחייבויות להשקעה בהיקף 1.4 מיליארד דולר
Red Herring: OurCrowd Summit Opens with MedTech Focus, amid Coronavirus Havoc
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...
FC Barcelona: Marta Plana explains the Barça Innovation Hub in Israel
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...
Crowdfund Insider: Interested in Investing in Early Stage Firms? OurCrowd Has a Long List, Reports 36 Exits to Date
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,...
The Jerusalem Post: Greenblatt: Palestinians’ aspirations do not equal their rights
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...
Times of Israel: Fintech, Good Tech, Jerusalem
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,...
ComputerWeekly.com: Day zero: OurCrowd Summit Israel 2020
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...
Bloomberg: Stifel CEO Says Wealth Management to Drive Growth This Year
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,...
AISH HATORAH: Jon Medved: Israeli High-Tech Pioneer
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...
Times of Israel: OurCrowd to up its focus on ‘huge potential’ of overlooked early-stage firms
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...
ComputerWeekly.com: Israel tech startup summit limbers up for SportsTech
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...
Israel HaYom: ‘In the supermarket of our ideas, everything is accessible’
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...
Crowdfund Insider: OurCrowd Highlights Sportstech and Investment Opportunity
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....
JERUSALEM POST: Grapevine February 7, 2020: Back to cyber
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...
ישראל היום: “בסופרמרקט של הרעיונות שלנו, הכל נגיש”
CROWDFUND INSIDER: Former Trump Advisor Jason Greenblatt to Speak at OurCrowd Global Summit
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...
NO CAMELS: Jason Greenblatt, Saul Singer Among Speakers At OurCrowd Summit 2020 In Jerusalem
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...
THE MEDIALINE: Entrepreneurs, Techies to Attend OurCrowd Investor Summit in Jerusalem (VIDEO INTERVIEW)
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...
TIMES OF ISRAEL: Daytrip to the land of Jerusalem’s unicorns
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...
CROWDFUND INSIDER: Following Banner Year for Israeli Tech Exits, OurCrowd Highlights Investment Success with 36 Exits to Date
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...
THE JERUSALEM POST: Former NBA all-star Michael Redd joins Israeli-backed sports tech fund
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...
NO CAMELS: Startup Visionaries, VCs, Political Leaders, and Cultural Icons: 17 Israelis Who Shaped the Decade
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...
CROWDFUND INSIDER: OurCrowd Backed ADvantage Sports Tech Fund Enlists Michael Redd, Former NBA Star and Olympic Gold Medalist
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...
Yahoo! Finance: 20,000 to register for OurCrowd Global Investor Summit in Jerusalem
- 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...
Global Banking & Finance Review: 20,000 to register for OurCrowd Global Investor Summit in Jerusalem
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...
Crowdfund Insider: Biggest in the World: Global Crowdfunding Platform OurCrowd Expects 20,000 Registrants at Forthcoming Investor Summit
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...
Business Korea: Korea Securities Depository Inviting K-Camp Global Participants
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...
RED HERRING “AI Goes Beyond Algorithmic Brilliance” – OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved
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...
The Jerusalem Post: OURCROWD CEO: ISRAEL ENJOYING ‘INVESTMENT TOURISM’ BOOM
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...
No Camels: OurCrowd Launches Sao Paolo Office To Tap Into ‘Key Region For Innovation’
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...
Crowdfund Insider: The Largest Equity Crowdfunding Event in the World: OurCrowd Plans Global Investor Summit
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...
BIZCOMMUNITY: OurCrowd Global Investor Summit returns to Israel in 2020
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...