Author: OurCrowd

[PRESS RELEASE] OurCrowd Honors Top 100 Thought Leaders in Crowdfunding Today

Jerusalem, IL and San Diego, CA. – January 22, 2014 – OurCrowd, Israel’s leading equity-based crowdfunding platform for accredited investors, today announced a project uncovering the 100 top thought leaders in crowdfunding today.  The project, based on an Evolve!, Inc. analysis of the impact of more than 800 members of the crowdfunding community, pinpoints thought leaders whose leadership, actions, blog posts, articles, tweets and commentary provide a framework for understanding new rules, structures and players in innovation finance. Read more...

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100 of the Most Influential Thought Leaders in Crowdfunding Today

When researching the emerging crowdfunding industry, we discovered a number of individuals providing remarkable insights into the new market structures, rules, players and opportunities.  Using innovative ideas and approaches, these thought leaders have created a road map for investors and entrepreneurs who want to better understand and participate in this revolutionary form of innovation finance. At OurCrowd, we are deeply committed to identifying and delivering exceptional opportunities for accredited investors to invest in leading early stage companies alongside experienced investors. By listening to and following these thought leaders, our knowledge of the rapidly changing landscape continues to grow and inform our unique crowdfunding model. Working with influencer relations agency Evolve Inc., we selected and carefully vetted 800 of the most knowledgeable, most influential and most social thought leaders in crowdfunding today, including industry insiders, regulators and politicians, journalists, platform vendors, angel investors, entrepreneurs, artists and industry analysts. Evolve used a broad range of influencer discovery and engagement tools to identify thought leaders, including Traackr, Little Bird, Group High and Google.  The list was scored using a proprietary formula designed to quantify...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Crosswise featured in Calcalist

OurCrowd’s portfolio company Crosswise was featured in Israel’s leading financial publication, Calcalist.       Excerpt from the article (translated from Hebrew): “Hong-Kong mogul Li Ka-shing through Horizon Ventures participated in a $2 million funding round in Israeli startup Crosswise, which operates in the online advertising field. The funding round was led by Israeli Giza Ventures. Additional investors participating int he funding round include OurCrowd and other private investors, such as Moshe Lichtman, the previous President of Microsoft’s Israel R&D Center.” Crosswise raised $525,000 from OurCrowd investors in 2013. Read more on Calcalist (Hebrew)...

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OurCrowd’s EasySocialShop was featured in leading French magazine, L’Express

OurCrowd’s portfolio company Easy Social Shop‘s founders Nissim Lehyani and Ofir Tahor have been featured on the first page of L’Express’ coverage of the Israeli startup scene. L’Express is a leading and influential French weekly news magazine. Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv is not only renowned for its Bauhaus buildings. It became the haunt of more than 700 startups and 1,000 high-tech companies – which are concentrated there despite the high rents. “We are here in the heart of the ecosystem,” enthuses Lehyani Nissim, 31, creator of EasySocialShop, a boutique concept on Facebook. “You see this building?” asks Nissim Lehyani on the terrace of his tiny office. “Within five years, we will occupy the top three stories.”       Read the full article in French here: La  Toile de David – EasySocialShop (PDF...

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The investor’s guide to the Israeli enterprise software market

Lost in some of the excitement around Israeli startups’ push into consumer technology is the country’s history in the software market. A key part of Israel’s success story — part of the economic fabric of the Startup Nation — is the enterprise software market. Established in the 1980s, Comverse, Amdocs, and Mercury Interactive were considered top-tier competition (especially in niche markets) to multinationals like SAP and Oracle. While their prominence may have faded somewhat, they did seed a whole ecosystem of enterprise-focused software startups that began in the 1990s and continues through today. That hasn’t been lost on companies like Oracle, which has purchased firms like Primavera, Demantra, and Convergin over the past decade. The following is a presentation given by OurCrowd‘s founder, Jon Medved, addressing the historical roots of the enterprise software industry in Israel, its enablers, and where the market may head in the near future.   The Investor’s Guide to the Israel Enterprise Software Industry from OurCrowd   Special thanks to OC’s Prescott Watson in the preparation of these materials!...

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