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OurCrowd at SXSW 2015: Israeli innovation and the global tech market

OurCrowd at SXSW 2015: Israeli innovation and the global tech market

Apr 7, 2015 | ,

Last month, South by Southwest (SXSW) held its annual music, film, and interactive conferences and festivals in Austin, Texas. Representatives from the global tech ecosystem flocked to the heart of the Lone Star state to attend the SXSW Interactive festival which over the years has earned the reputation of a breeding ground for new ideas and creative technologies. As part of the SXSW Interactive festival, OurCrowd’s Head of Investor Community, Zack Miller, joined a panel Q&A to discuss where Israeli tech innovation is headed. In a conversation led by Bruce Taragin, Managing Director at Blumberg Capital, Zack discusses why Israel is helping lead the way for advancements in technology in areas such as health-tech, big data, privacy, and cybersecurity, exposing the SXSW attendees to the Israeli startup and tech scene and showcase the opportunities that exist for investment, collaboration, and R&D. View the full session below. Israel: Small Country, Big...

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[Zebra in The Wall Street Journal] Khosla Ventures Invests In Israeli Medical Imaging Startup Zebra

Apr 6, 2015 |

U.S. venture firm Khosla Ventures is leading an early round of investment of $8 million in Zebra Medical Vision Ltd., an Israel-based startup building a database of anonymous medical images. The images — X-rays, CT scans and MRI scans — are of real patients but have been anonymized by leaving out names, addresses and other identifying details. Read more in the...

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What to celebrate: In Q1 Israelis raised $1.5B on Wall Street [OurCrowd Newsletter]

What to celebrate: In Q1 Israelis raised $1.5B on Wall Street [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Apr 6, 2015 |

In Israel this Passover, there is much to celebrate: Israeli companies raised $1.5 billion during Q1 2015 – already on track to overcome the total amount from 2014. Read on to learn how Israeli tech will help solve the world’s food crisis and what the next five years hold for Israeli entrepreneurs. Start getting this weekly newsletter via email: Subscribe now Off to a great start in 2015: Israeli companies raise $1.5B on Wall Street in Q1 Israeli companies conducted eleven offerings on Wall Street in the first quarter of 2015: three IPOs and eight secondary offerings. An almost unimaginable total of $1.5 billion was raised, considering that $3.9 billion was raised in all of 2014. Seven of the 11 offerings were by biomedical companies while the other four were by technology companies, including two information security companies. These figures have earned this batch of Israeli representatives a place of honor on Wall Street. Learn more. OurCrowd in the News Jon Medved featured on TheStreet Cimagine featured in Times of Israel Pixie featured in Inc. Abe’s Market featured in FoodNavigator-USA ReWalk featured in Reuters BioCatch featured in Israel21c...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Webydo featured in TechCrunch

Apr 4, 2015 | ,

Leading technology website, TechCrunch, featured OurCrowd portfolio company Webydo. The company provides graphic designers a powerful set of design tools to build and maintain websites with little technical knowledge. Code-free web design platforms are an increasingly popular tool among web designers.Companies behind these tools promise a design experience that doesn’t require any coding skills or the need for an expensive third-party developer. With Webydo, the user must have a design background working with software such as Adobe Photoshop in order to design sites from scratch, whereas Wix users with no background indesign can create a site by modifying an existing template. Tel Aviv-based Webydo was founded to empower the web designer and subsequently diminish the role of the developer in the design process. Webydo raised $1,292,500 from OurCrowd investors in December 2013. Read more on...

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