Author: OurCrowd

OurCrowd’s Portfolio Company Zula featured in TechCrunch

Jun 12, 2014 | ,

Leading technology website, TechCrunch, featured OurCrowd portfolio company Zula. The company aims to revolutionize team communication for an increasingly mobile world. Israeli startup Zula, the team communication app founded by VoIP pioneers Jeff Pulver(Vonage) and Jacob Ner-David (Delta Three), has closed a $3 million series A round. The round was led by Morton Meyerson of 2M, who is joined by Ourcrowd, Microsoft Ventures, Nathan Low, and Doug Pauly. Describing itself these days as a cross-platform team communication app, Zula was first unveiled to the world in July of last year, and then went on to appear in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in San Francisco that September as the audience choice.   Zula raised $350,000 from OurCrowd investors in May 2013 and $560,000 in a follow-on funding round in 2014. Read more on...

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Finding the space to invest: SpaceIL and Israel’s place in the new space race

Finding the space to invest: SpaceIL and Israel’s place in the new space race

Jun 11, 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 SpaceIL’s audacious vision to make history by landing the first Israeli spacecraft on the moon (on a shoe-string budget). SpaceIL is competing for $20 million as part of the Google LunarX Prize competition to encourage entrepreneurial activity in the space sector. Additional topics covered in the webcast: Why donors (including Sheldon Adelson for $16.4 million) are so passionate about contributing to Israel and SpaceIL The amazing story behind the founding of SpaceIL, crowdsourcing,  and what drives the founders to try and get to the moon How the team is developing a grassroots — volunteer — ecosystem around space travel and what the future looks like for the hundreds of engineers volunteering to make this a reality Featured experts: Yariv Bash, co-founder of SpaceIL. Yariv holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University. In his spare time,...

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Teach-in Tuesdays: Join us (online) for 2 educational events during June

Teach-in Tuesdays: Join us (online) for 2 educational events during June

Jun 5, 2014 |

Last month we had hundreds of investors from around the world join us for events from our new webinar series called Teach-In Tuesdays. In this series, we 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. During June, we’re hosting 2 exciting installments of our Teach-In Tuesdays series. Register for them below. Finding the space to invest: SpaceIL and Israel’s place in the new space race Tuesday, June 10th (7:00 PM Israel / 12:00 PM NYC /  9:00 AM San Francisco) Join Zack Miller, Head of the Investor Community at OurCrowd, and Yariv Bash, co-founder of SpaceIL, for a lively discussion about SpaceIL’s audacious vision to make history by landing the first Israeli spacecraft on the moon (on a shoe-string budget). SpaceIL is competing for $20 million as part of a Google competition to encourage entrepreneurial activity in the space sector. Join us to learn: Why donors (including Sheldon Adelson for $16.4 million) are so passionate about contributing to Israel and SpaceIL The amazing story behind the...

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Shopping for Security: Why Investors are Excited about the Cyber Security Market

Shopping for Security: Why Investors are Excited about the Cyber Security Market

May 28, 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 webinar as part of the OurCrowd Teach-In Tuesdays series on the current trends in the cyber security market. With big security breaches at high profile retailers like Target, the cyber security market is seeing lots of interest from investors and entrepreneurs globally. Additional topics covered in the webinar: Why investors are optimistic about the opportunity in cyber security and the recent surge in the market’s popularity The tremendous need for innovation and new technologies to combat hackers and online crime Recent exits in the cyber security space Featured expert: Ron Moritz, OurCrowd mentor, former General Manager at Microsoft and former CTO at Symantec.     ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 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 Ron Moritz, follow him...

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OurCrowd’s Portfolio Company Consumer Physics Featured on Fox Business

May 22, 2014 | ,

OurCrowd’s portfolio company Consumer Physics, developer of  the world’s first affordable molecular sensor – the Scio –  that fits in the palm of your hand, has been featured on Fox Business, a leading American business news television channel.  In the segment, Consumer Physics CEO Dror Sharon discusses the company’s molecular scanning device that allows users to check the calorie count and freshness of foods. 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. Consumer Physics has just emerged from stealth mode with the launch of a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. View the video below or play it on Fox Business here. Watch the latest video at...

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