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[PRESS RELEASE] OurCrowd Closes World’s Largest Equity Crowdfunding Round for Borro

[PRESS RELEASE] OurCrowd Closes World’s Largest Equity Crowdfunding Round for Borro

Feb 10, 2015 |

Jerusalem, Israel. February 10, 2015: OurCrowd, the leading equity crowdfunding platform for accredited investors, announced that it led a $19.5M Series E funding round for Borro, the UK-NY based, asset-backed online lender. OurCrowd was joined by Rocket Internet AG (RKET), Canaan Partners and Augmentum Capital in this funding round. OurCrowd alone raised $6M of the capital invested, making this the single largest equity crowdfunding round ever completed and demonstrates how equity crowdfunding can complement and even lead traditional funding sources, such as venture capital. Read more...

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[PRESS RELEASE] OurCrowd Helps Wharton Students Launch Largest Student-Run Impact Investing Platform in the World

[PRESS RELEASE] OurCrowd Helps Wharton Students Launch Largest Student-Run Impact Investing Platform in the World

Feb 10, 2015 |

Jerusalem, Israel, March 10, 2015:  OurCrowd, the world’s leading equity crowdfunding platform, has announced a unique collaboration that will help students at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania get an industry-leading experiential education in impact investing.  This initiative will greatly expand the Wharton Social Venture Fund (WSVF), a flagship program operated under the Wharton Social Impact Initiative (WSII) which allows students to select, curate and diligence investments that will change the world. Read more...

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OurCrowd portfolio companies listed in Fast Company’s “The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2015 In Israel”

Feb 10, 2015 | ,

OurCrowd’s portfolio companies MedAware, ReWalk Robotics, Freightos, BillGuard, Zula, and Consumer Physics were featured in award-winning tech magazine Fast Company’s annual report on The World’s Most Innovative Companies. MedAware, ReWalk Robotics, Freightos, BillGuard, and Zula were listed in the top 10 most innovative companies of 2015 in Israel. ReWalk also ranked 2nd in the Robotics sector and Consumer Physics ranked 10th in the Food category. Read more about the world’s most innovative companies on Fast Company here. Plenty of prototypes exist out there to put nutrition and allergy scanners into the hands of consumers, but Israeli company Consumer Physics is the first to bring that power to market with its SCiO, which begins shipping this summer. Seeded by OurCrowd and top tier Silicon Valley VC Khosla Ventures, Consumer Physics raised $3,300,000 from OurCrowd investors in its 2nd round of funding in May 2014.   . Freightos’ clients include such giants as Ceva Logistics and Apex Logistics; for one client, Kestrel, Freightos estimates having saved it $150,000 annually in labor costs and, within 60 days, more than quadrupling its monthly average of quotes generated. Freightos raised $550,000 from OurCrowd investors in...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Borro featured in the Wall Street Journal

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Leading business and finance website, The Wall Street Journal, featured OurCrowd’s portfolio company Borro, a leading online asset-backed lending platform. Borro delivers liquidity to people with unprecedented speed and ease. The startup’s growth, along with its unique niche within a large and growing group of alternative lending tech startups, captured the attention of private investors who plowed $19.5 million into Borro to bankroll its continued expansion… The loans can range up to $2 million and are arranged and fulfilled by Borro, an arrangement that Mr. Aitken will likely expand to include crowdfunding in coming months. Bringing venture capital crowdfunding platform OurCrowd to the table as investors will provide the opportunity to learn about the process before embarking on it, Mr. Aitken said. Borro raised $7,159,920 from OurCrowd investors in 2015. Read more on the...

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