Author: OurCrowd

OurCrowd’s portfolio company Freightos featured in The Times of Israel

Jan 30, 2015 | ,

OurCrowd portfolio company Freightos was featured in the Times of Israel, an English-language news website covering Israel, the region & the Jewish world. Freightos offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud solution for automating pricing and sales in the trillion dollar freight (cargo) industry. There’s no reason why shipping, like so many other things, can’t be automated, [Zvi] Schreiber believes — so he started Freightos, a company that is determined to bring shipping into the 21st century. Using cloud technology and big data automation techniques, Freightos provides a “Software as a Service” platform for freight forwarders to manage their rates and automate their routing and pricing. Data on ship location and availability comes from an online source called Linescape, and the system adds weather data, price schedules, and other information that are components of a shipping quote. Freightos raised $550,000 from OurCrowd investors in November 2012 and $110,000 in a follow-on funding round in September 2013. Read more on Times of...

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Investment Trends: Where to invest your attention in 2015

Investment Trends: Where to invest your attention in 2015

Jan 28, 2015 | , , ,

With 2015 underway, smart investors are already planning their portfolio moves for the year.  With all the noise out there, how does an investor decide what to focus on and which sectors are investable? The following webinar, part of the OurCrowd Teach-In Tuesdays series, covers investment trends and opportunities for 2015. The compilation of trends is based on what OurCrowd’s deal flow team — which vetted 3,000+ startups since we launched — are seeing on the ground. In this webinar: Explore the investment trends to watch this year Hear from the team that reviews 100+ startups each month Get a macro view on what Israeli entrepreneurs are developing Learn how we determine what makes a compelling investment idea ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: To stay updated on future events and the best news from the Startup Nation, sign up for our newsletter, email us, and follow us on social media. To contact Zack Miller, follow him on Linkedin / Twitter To contact David Stark, follow him on Linkedin / Twitter View the FULL program Download/view the presentation Investment Trends: Where to invest your attention in 2015 from OurCrowd [xyz-ihs...

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$910M raised this week, 12 Israeli startups disrupting disability, meet the teenage CEO [OurCrowd Newsletter]

$910M raised this week, 12 Israeli startups disrupting disability, meet the teenage CEO [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Jan 26, 2015 |

In just the last week, $910M was raised through acquisitions, including ecommerce giant Amazon’s first foray into Israel. Learn which 12 Israeli startups are inventing tech for the disabled population. Plus, the local high schooler-turned-CEO. Start getting this weekly newsletter via email: Subscribe now Israeli startups raised $910 million last week (Infographic) The Startup Nation can already claim an impressive start in 2015. In just one week, Israeli startups raised $910 million through acquisitions which totaled $770 million, and funding rounds, at $140 million. The largest of these deals, which comprised almost half of the total Israeli acquisitions from last week, was Amazon’s purchase of Annapurna Labs for $370 million, marking Amazon’s first acquisition in Israel. Geektime created a pretty neat infographic to present all the impressive deals: See the infographic. OurCrowd & Portfolio Companies in the News BioCatch featured in E&T Magazine OurCrowd’s Jon Medved in Crowdfund Insider VocalZoom featured in The Economist Highcon featured in Packaging News BillGuard featured in U.S. News Money OurCrowd’s Jon Medved in Shalom Life SoBi featured in Raise The Hammer ReWalk featured in Times Union 12 Israeli technologies changing the lives of the disabled in...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Curiyo featured in TechCrunch

Jan 26, 2015 | ,

OurCrowd portfolio company Curiyo was featured in TechCrunch, a leading technology website. Curiyo is a browser plugin that helps deliver relevant content to users curious to know more about a word or phrase on a site, without forcing users to leave the page they are on. Curiyo, a company that makes software which consumers, bloggers and publishers use to enhance an online article with subtle links that direct you to useful facts and other information, has raised an additional round of just under $1 million in funding. Included in the round were both new and existing investors, crowdfunding platform OurCrowd, Morton H. Meyerson, Tom Glocer (former Reuters CEO) and Techra Investments. The Jerusalem-based startup was founded in 2011 by Bob Rosenschein, the founder and former CEO of the site Answers.com. Curiyo raised $550,000 from OurCrowd investors in December 2012 and $230,000 in a follow-on funding round in February 2014. Read more on...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Consumer Physics featured in Gigaom

Jan 25, 2015 | ,

Popular technology website, Gigaom, featured OurCrowd portfolio company Consumer Physics, which has developed the world’s first affordable molecular sensor – the Scio – that fits in the palm of your hand. Designed and assembled in Israel by startup Consumer Physics, SCiO is an NIR spectrometer for consumers, set to roll out by summer 2015 for $249 per unit. NIR spectrometry detects the spectrum created from shining a light source at a given sample. That light spectrum—a so-called molecular signature—can be used to identify matter. The SCiO can be pointed at a food item in order to notify a user of the calories as well as the protein, carbohydrate, and fat content. (SCiO can actually distinguish Pepsi from Coke.) 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. Read more on...

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