Author: OurCrowd

OurCrowd’s portfolio company Bizzabo featured on CNBC

Oct 25, 2014 | ,

OurCrowd portfolio company Bizzabo has been listed by CNBC as one of the top 8 networking apps. Constructing interactive event-groups, Bizzabo utilizes social media in order to facilitate the dialogue between event organizers and guests.  If you’re heading to a business conference, Bizzabo can help make it as worthwhile as possible. The app shows you other people attending the same event and helps connect you with them, even after it is over. The app also offers suggested “leads” based on your background, and you can also filter the list by company name or position. Bizzabo raised $506,000 from OurCrowd investors in January 2014. Read more on...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company BioCatch featured on Fast Company

Oct 8, 2014 | ,

OurCrowd portfolio company BioCatch was featured in award-winning tech magazine, Fast Company. BioCatch has developed a novel form of authentication used by online businesses to continuously guarantee users are who they say they are, by analyzing their behavioral and cognitive responses. One security company, Israel-based biometrics authentication firm BioCatch, recently turned visualizations of attacks on their clients into an online art gallery. The result, called the Art of Fraud, is essentially an advertisement for the company’s services. It’s also a perfect example of how security firms are turning to data visualizations and graphic representations of attacks to serve their clients and mitigate online attacks. BioCatch raised $3,334,500 from OurCrowd investors in February 2014. Read more on Fast Company...

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Experience Sukkot in the Startup Nation with OurCrowd

Experience Sukkot in the Startup Nation with OurCrowd

Oct 7, 2014 | ,

Join the OurCrowd team and fellow investors for two events next week at our private Sukka at the Waldorf Astoria in Jerusalem and overlooking the beach in Tel Aviv. There will good food, great drinks, wonderful company and stellar presentations, including four of our latest startup investments. We hope to see you at one (or both!) of our events and wish you a Shana Tova and Chag Sameach! Scotch & Wine at the Waldorf Astoria- Jerusalem Join Jonathan Medved (OurCrowd CEO), the CEOs of our latest portfolio companies and the OurCrowd team for drinks in Jerusalem’s first indoor sukkah at the Waldorf Astoria. When Sunday, October 12th 5:30- 7:30PM Where Waldorf Astoria Agron St. 26, Jerusalem For more information and to RSVP, please click here. Wine & Dessert overlooking the beach- Tel Aviv Join Jonathan Medved (OurCrowd CEO), the CEOs of our latest portfolio companies and the OurCrowd team for wine and dessert in the sukkah overlooking the Mediterranean and Tel Aviv. When Tuesday, October 14th 5:30- 7:30PM Where Aish TLV Sukka Hayarkon 165, Tel Aviv For more information and to...

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This Week In Crowdfunding: How individual investors can invest in top real estate deals

This Week In Crowdfunding: How individual investors can invest in top real estate deals

Oct 5, 2014 | , ,

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!  ——————————————— One of the most exciting manifestations of crowdfunding can be found right now in the real estate sector. Investment properties, which were once owned wholly by large real estate firms, are now finding crowdfunding investor interest. And vice versa — individuals, who once struggled to get access to ‘insider’ deals — can now invest in real estate via platforms like Realty Mogul. On this week’s TWiC, hosts Zack Miller and David Stark hosted Realty Mogul’s CEO and founder, Jilliene Helman, to talk about how her firm got off the ground and is now working with both top-flight real estate development projects and attracting investor interest. Watson on Crowdfunding tackles the complicated — but really important — issue of accreditation...

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