Author: OurCrowd

OurCrowd’s portfolio company Parko featured in Globes

Jun 29, 2014 | ,

OurCrowd portfolio company Parko was featured in Globes, the leading Israeli financial daily. Parko is a smartphone app that saves drivers time by matching departing and arriving cars in parking situations. Crowdsourcing parking solution company Parko Ltd. has raised a $1.1 million seed round. Participating investors were SparkLabs Global Ventures, OurCrowd, and a syndicate of European angels. Parko’s new API allows drivers to find the optimal navigation route to a parking spot with real-time updates from other drivers. Parko’s technology analyzes the parking habits of opt-in users. Parko raised $385,000 from OurCrowd investors in 2012 and $398,800 in a follow-on funding round in January 2014. Read more on...

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OurCrowd Events July-August

OurCrowd Events July-August

Jun 29, 2014 |

OurCrowd founder & CEO Jon Medved and team members will be hosting events in the US, Australia, Europe 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. Space is limited!   Aug 20th – Jerusalem, Israel What: Special Security Event Featuring: Guest Speaker Dr. Tal Becker When: 6:30PM – 8:00PM RSVP online here   Aug 21st – Sydney, Australia What: Silicon Dragon Ventures Startup Asia Sydney 2014 Featuring: Dan Bennett, Managing Director of OurCrowd in Australia When: 5:00PM – 9:00PM Purchase tickets here   Check out where we’ve been this past month…   July 1st – Paris, France What: OurCrowd exclusive investor event in Paris Featuring: Denes Ban, Venture Partner at OurCrowd, discussing the Startup Nation and investment opportunities. When: 8:15AM RSVP here   July 8th – San Diego What: OurCrowd Investor Lunch Featuring: Audrey Jacobs, VP OurCrowd Americas and the CEOs of our newest portfolio companies When: 12:00PM – 1:30PM RSVP here   July 9th – Chicago...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Curiyo featured on Mashable

Jun 26, 2014 | ,

OurCrowd portfolio company Curiyo was featured in Mashable, a popular website covering  the top social media news. 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. USA Today is trying out a new content discovery tool to keep readers from leaving the site. The newspaper has tapped Curiyo, a startup founded by Bob Rosenschein, who created Answers.com and sold it to AFCV Holdings for $127 million in 2011. Curiyo lets you click on a word or name to find out more about them. The idea is to discourage readers from navigating away from the page they’re reading to research on Wikipedia or elsewhere. Rosenschein says publishers are interested in the idea, especially since it doesn’t slow the site down (“It’s a line of Javascript!”). 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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Success Stories of Women in the Startup Nation

Success Stories of Women in the Startup Nation

Jun 25, 2014 | ,

OurCrowd launched a new webinar series called ‘Teach-In Tuesdays’. In this series, we’ll explore investing in early-stage Israeli companies, identify and explain influential tech trends, stay up-to-date with the crowdfunding industry, and examine actionable insights from our own experience running OurCrowd’s investment platform. Yesterday, we held a webcast as part of the OurCrowd Teach-In Tuesdays series on the recent progress of women entrepreneurs, why we are seeing more women-led enterprises and what it will take to encourage more women to take the entrepreneurial plunge. Additional topics covered in the webcast: About the advantages of being a woman in the male-dominated Israeli tech scene Personal experiences from the trenches Sage advice from experienced woman entrepreneurs Featured experts: Evelyn Rubin, Business Development Partner at OurCrowd. Evelyn Rubin joined OurCrowd after more than a decade of experience in Israel’s venture capital and technology industries. Previously a Senior Editor at Seeking Alpha, Evelyn was formerly a Senior Associate at JVP, a leading international venture capital fund in Jerusalem.   Ranit Fink, Chief Business Development Officer at Cellrox. Mrs. Fink has 7 years of experience in software development and project management in technology companies. She...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Webydo featured on TechCrunch

Jun 21, 2014 | ,

Leading technology website, TechCrunch, featured OurCrowd portfolio company Webydo. The company provides graphic designers a powerful set of design tools to build and maintain websites with little technical knowledge. Webydo, a software as a service startup that gives web designers the tools to circumvent a more traditional website creation process by excising the need for them to do any manual coding by automatically converting their design into a hosted HTML5 website, has closed a $7 million Series B funding round. The round was led by equity-based crowdfunding VC platform OurCrowd, along with Magna Capital Partners and a group of unnamed strategic investors from the US and UK. The new round brings Webydo’s total funding to $9.7 million. The business was founded back in 2010. Webydo raised $1,292,500 from OurCrowd investors in December 2013. Read more on TechCrunch...

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