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The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Israeli Companies of 2015 by Fast Company

The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Israeli Companies of 2015 by Fast Company

Feb 19, 2015 | ,

Each year, award-winning tech magazine Fast Company spends months gathering and analyzing data in order to generate its annual report on The World’s Most Innovative Companies. The list is a guide to the state of innovation in economy, featuring the businesses whose innovations are having the greatest impacts across their industries and our culture as a whole. Therefore, it’s not surprising that several Israeli companies fresh out of the Startup Nation, the world’s #2 startup ecosystem, were included. In addition to the noted 50 Most Innovative Companies and the accompanying top 10 companies in various sectors —which include a number of Israeli startups — the magazine recently released a list of the world’s top 10 most innovative companies of 2015 in Israel. There is no doubt about it, Israel has become a world leader in startup success. Famously titled 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. The world’s top most innovative Israeli companies in additional categories include Houzz (#11 in Top 50; #1 in Architecture), ElMindA (#48 in Top 50; #4 in Health Care), Rafael Advanced Defense Systems (#10 in Design), Consumer Physics (#10 in Food), NICE Systems (#8 in Money), FeeX (#3 in Personal...

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OurCrowd Events March-April 2015

OurCrowd Events March-April 2015

Feb 18, 2015 | ,

OurCrowd founder & CEO Jon Medved and team members will be hosting events in the US, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and Israel in the upcoming weeks, with the CEOs of our new startups and guest speakers. Scroll down to learn more and RSVP. We hope to see you at one of our events. Be sure to RSVP on the links below – either scroll through the events calendar below or the text list. Space is limited!   March 27th – New York, NY What: OurCrowd will join Pennovation Israel for the Israeli Startups Trek in NYC. This event is hosted by Wharton, University of Pennsylvania Featuring: Andrew Scharf, VP OurCrowd When: 4:00PM-5:00PM For more information, please email Allison@OurCrowd.com   March 31st- San Diego, CA What: Join OurCrowd’s VP of Americas, Audrey Jacobs, for lunch and meet the CEO from MyAgentFinder, one of OurCrowd’s currently funding companies. This event is co-hosted by KPMG Featuring: Audrey Jacobs, VP OurCrowd Americas, and David Tal, CEO MyAgentFinder When: 12:00PM-2:00PM For more information, please click here.   April 8th-9th – Israel What: Join OurCrowd for our Annual Passover...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Bizzabo featured in VentureBeat

Feb 18, 2015 | ,

Leading technology website, VentureBeat, featured OurCrowd portfolio company Bizzabo. Constructing interactive event-groups, Bizzabo utilizes social media in order to facilitate the dialogue between event organizers and guests. At one time, you could always recognize the coordinator of a conference. It was the person carrying the largest binder. Now, of course, you’ll have to use other identifiers. That’s because of companies like Bizzabo, which is today launching the next gen of its cloud-based event management platform. Before, the event platform from the Tel Aviv- and New York City-based company covered “everything about the event experience,” cofounder and chief marketing officer Alon Alroy told VentureBeat. Bizzabo raised $506,000 from OurCrowd investors in January 2014. Read more on...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Bizzabo featured in The Next Web

Feb 18, 2015 | ,

Leading technology news website, The Next Web, featured OurCrowd portfolio company Bizzabo. Constructing interactive event-groups, Bizzabo utilizes social media in order to facilitate the dialogue between event organizers and guests. Do you want to make the most of your event? Bizzabo’s new platform wants to help with that. Launched today, the Event Success Platform allows users to plan, execute and track their events from start to finish in one place. Bizzabo raised $506,000 from OurCrowd investors in January 2014. Read more on The Next...

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[PRESS RELEASE] Anthony DeChellis Appointed President of OurCrowd

[PRESS RELEASE] Anthony DeChellis Appointed President of OurCrowd

Feb 17, 2015 |

Jerusalem, Israel, February 17, 2015 – OurCrowd, the world’s leading equity crowdfunding platform, has announced that Anthony DeChellis, former CEO of Private Banking Americas at Credit Suisse, has joined as the President of OurCrowd, operating out of the firm’s New York office. Prior to Credit Suisse, DeChellis was head of Private Wealth Management at UBS and ran Private Banking in Europe for Merrill Lynch. Read more...

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