Author: OurCrowd

Zack’s App of the Week: Asana

Zack’s App of the Week: Asana

Feb 17, 2014 |

Building scalable, repeatable processes is key to growing a startup into a much bigger concern. Especially in a modern growth-oriented company, where teams are somewhat amorphous, you need the tools to quickly collaborate, help with workflows, and tweak as you go. At OurCrowd, we use Asana to help with exactly this. Asana is our teamwork tool that helps us take our tasks off of email. Working with Asana is similar to working in your email/Outlook. You have different inboxes filled with tasks. You can add multiple people to the same task and even create simple workflows that require sequential collaboration on a particular project. We have Asana tied into a few of our essential processes in-house at OurCrowd, triggering tasks and events that we use to manage our business. For example, when someone signs up on our website, there is regulatory scrubbing that gets kicked off and we do that in part, by creating a task in Asana. When it’s completed, the person in charge of the tasks marks it complete and it gets archived. So, for investors and...

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

Feb 12, 2014 | ,

The Times of Israel, an English-language news website covering Israel, the region & the Jewish world, featured OurCrowd portfolio company eVigilo, which uses every media available to inform people where to go for help in case disaster happens. eVigilo offers national, state, and local governments and large corporations a series of sophisticated emergency alert systems as a service. The more people know, the more prepared — and calm — they are, and eVigilo’s mission is to provide services that keep citizens informed, allowing governments to marshal their resources to dealing with emergencies. eVigilo has signed a $5 million contract to run the “National Message” project for Israel’s Homefront Command, which will be based on the company’s SMART for Governments system, “a real-time, location-based, multi-channel distribution platform. The messages are disseminated through a wide variety of communication channels including, cell broadcast, smartphone applications, desktops, social networks, TV, radio and sirens.”   eVigilo raised $385,000 from OurCrowd investors in September 2013. Read more on The Times of...

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Meet the Israeli Startups in Fast Company’s report on the World’s Most Innovative Companies 2014

Meet the Israeli Startups in Fast Company’s report on the World’s Most Innovative Companies 2014

Feb 11, 2014 | , ,

Each year, award-winning tech magazine Fast Company spends months gathering and analyzing data in order to generate its annual  report on The World’s Most Innovative Companies. According to Fast Company, their list is a guide to the state of innovation in economy, featuring the businesses whose innovations are having the greatest impacts across their industries and our culture as a whole. Therefore, it’s not surprising that a number of Israeli companies fresh out of the Startup Nation, the world’s #2 startup ecosystem, were included on the list. Check out the Israeli companies at the forefront of business and creativity that were ranked by Fast Company as part of the world’s most innovative companies: World’s Most Innovative Companies Two Israeli companies made it to the main list of the Fast Company World’s Most Innovative Companies: Tel Aviv-based Water-Gen ranked at #21 for creating water where soldiers need it most. Water-Gen began its operation in the defense market, designing state-of-the-art solutions for water supply. The company developed three machines — one that turns air moisture into drinking water, one that purifies the dribbles of air-conditioning units, and one that purifies any water source (such as...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Abe’s Market featured in the Wall Street Journal

Feb 9, 2014 | ,

Leading business and finance website, The Wall Street Journal, featured OurCrowd’s portfolio company Abe’s Market, a fast growing e-commerce company focused on creating the amazon.com equivalent for the explosive natural and organic products market. OurCrowd investors just participated in a funding round of $10 million into Abe’s Market led by Mistral Equity Partners, a leading mid-market consumer-focused private equity firm. Chicago-based Abe’s Market is tapping into the growing interest in healthy lifestyle, natural and organic foods, via its online store, where the company sells packaged food, beauty and other products. Abe’s Market aims to connect consumers with smaller, specialty brands. “Without us, in the early days a lot of these companies were selling their wares at farmer’s markets,” said Mr. Polin, who is Abe’s Market’s president. Launched in 2009, Abe’s Market is still a relatively small operation, and is hoping to expand to millions of customers, using the new infusion of capital. Abe’s Market raised $680,000 from OurCrowd investors in 2012 and $1,000,000 its 2nd round of funding in 2014. Read more on The Wall Street...

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OurCrowd Roadshow Events February-March

OurCrowd Roadshow Events February-March

Feb 9, 2014 |

OurCrowd founder & CEO Jon Medved and team members will be traveling the world 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!   February, 2014: February 10th – Los Angeles, CA What: The coming crowdfunding revolution: how it will change the way startups are funded Featuring: OurCrowd’s Jon Medved and startup CEOs When: 1:30-2:30PM RSVP here   February 11th – San Diego, CA What: The coming crowdfunding revolution: how it will change the way startups are funded Featuring: OurCrowd’s Jon Medved and startup CEOs When: 12:00-1:30PM RSVP here   February 12th – San Francisco, CA What: The coming crowdfunding revolution: how it will change the way startups are funded Featuring: OurCrowd’s Jon Medved and startup CEOs When: 12:00-1:30PM RSVP here   February 12th – Boston, MA What: Stories from the frontlines from one of tech’s most influential investors and entrepreneurs Featuring: Jeff Pulver with OurCrowd’s Danna Mann and startup CEOs When: 9:00-10:30AM RSVP here   February 13th – Manhattan, NY What: Building a...

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