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Jerusalem, Israel. December 2, 2014: OurCrowd, the leading global equity crowdfunding platform for accredited investors, will bring together next week 36 of its innovative portfolio companies to meet with over 600 investors and executives from 17 countries in the largest global gathering of its kind. Read more...
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This week in Startup Nation news: yet another new acquisition, Nazareth-born Amal Ayoub is treating cancer with nanoparticles, Q&A with email wizard Shai Geva, the 12 hottest Israeli apps, and the speaker list for the biggest OurCrowd investor conference announced! How about getting these weekly highlights directly to your inbox? Subscribe now. 3D Systems acquires Israeli CAD company Cimatron for $97M Cimatron, an Israeli firm that is one of the world’s largest makers of 3D CAD/CAM software products for manufacturing, is being acquired by US company 3D Systems. Under the deal, 3D Systems will acquire all outstanding shares of Cimatron, paying about $97 million for its new acquisition. Since 1982, Cimatron has grown to be a key player in the industrial design market, serving clients from the aerospace, consumer electronics, toys, medical, optics and telecom, and automotive industries. Read up on the deal. OurCrowd in the News OurCrowd’s portfolio company Webydo featured in CMS Critic OurCrowd’s portfolio company Highcon featured in Packaging South Asia Don’t worry, be “appy”: 12 hot apps from Israel Made-in-Israel mobile applications have radically changed how we...
Read MoreOurCrowd’s portfolio company Apploi, a recruiting platform for businesses in high-turnover service and support industries like retail and restaurants, was featured on Fox Business, a leading American business news television channel. In the interview with Risk & Reward‘s Deirdre Bolton, Apploi CEO Adam Lewis discusses how Apploi’s mobile platform aims to simplify the hiring process and also offers technology to turn a higher number of inmates into employees. Apploi raised $1,657,716 from OurCrowd investors in July 2014. View the video on Fox...
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This Week in Crowdfunding is a newly launched podcast series hosted by OurCrowd’s Zack Miller and David Stark, where they cover the best in Crowdfunding with a frank — and educational — discussion about the issues surrounding Crowdfunding. Every week, they interview successful entrepreneurs, deconstruct campaigns, and hear from the smartest people around on this transformative, massive financing trend. Sign up to listen to the podcast on iTunes * Sticher * SoundCloud! ——————————————— On this week of the TWiC, Jared Iverson, the co-founder and CEO of Healthfundr joins hosts, Zack Miller and David Stark, to discuss equity crowdfunding for health-related startups. In particular, pay close attention to some of the innovations Healthfundr has developed to help investors better informed investment decisions and how experts can influence this. Listen to the FULL...
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Our American friends around the world celebrate Thanksgiving today: a time for turkey gobbling, pumpkin pie eating and a whole lot of festivities (and family!). Even the team at OurCrowd has reason to celebrate and be thankful for this year. Since 2014 is turning out to be an amazingly successful year, we think it’s a good time to look back at our most recent accomplishments and see how far we’ve come. So, without further ado, here are the 6 awesome things we are thankful for this year: Office expansion: OurCrowd has opened new offices around the world and launched operations in exciting regions. Our new locations include New York, Chicago, Australia, Latin America, and Hong Kong. Over the past year OurCrowd has grown both in size and staff. We have had the pleasure of welcoming new team members who have joined old and newly-opened departments, bringing with them a wealth of experience and talent. Going global: Expanding from the Startup Nation, OurCrowd began the search and the global partnerships to reach further for new innovative investment opportunities. OurCrowd-family celebrations: Over the course of the year OurCrowd’s...
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