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OurCrowd High-Tech Jobs Index Q1 2022

OurCrowd High-Tech Jobs Index Q1 2022

Jun 22, 2022 | , , ,

Startup hiring spree continues in Q1 2022 but recruitment slowdown looms High tech remains resilient despite economic and political turbulence Recruitment trends in Q1 remain strong, but employers more cautious about the future69% of survey respondents report no negative impact of global economic instability, inflation, and currency fluctuationFirst weeks of war in Ukraine did not affect hiring and 86% see no impact of political instability in Israel on companies“There was a lot of political instability in Israel recently with multiple elections, etc. This did not have any impact on our business. Seems like all governments, center, right or left, support high tech as a growth engine.” – Startup CEOCompanies overwhelmingly need R&D/software hires, and have difficulty finding them, creating a strong job-seeker’s market and increased awareness of the need for HR professionalsRemote work becomes increasingly permanent as hybrid home/office models become the norm and majority judge remote sales efforts a success The OurCrowd High-Tech Jobs Index is a quarterly report and data series tracking vacancies and hiring patterns at high-tech companies in Israel and abroad. All data is based on a...

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Ukraine crisis highlights need for new food technology, OurCrowd CEO tells CNBC

Apr 7, 2022 | , ,

Global shortages and price hikes need urgent solutions, says Jon Medved OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved talks to CNBC’s Hadley Gamble  By AMY TEIBEL  The threat to global food and energy security and sudden price hikes triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine highlight the urgency of accelerating new innovations to solve these problems, OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved told CNBC Wednesday.  Ukraine and Russia’s massive footprint in the wheat export market has exposed the weaknesses of the global food-supply chain, with critical wheat shortages rippling across the globe as a result of the conflict, he said.  “The next generation of food is going to be grown differently,” Medved told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble in an interview.  “It’s going to be grown in vats, it’s going to be grown in factories, robotically, smartly, with a much smaller greenhouse-gas footprint,” Medved said.  He noted that such advances would benefit countries throughout the Middle East facing sharply rising food prices.  “This is going to happen, and the opportunity that this provides for our partners in the Gulf is huge because it’s going to require...

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Medical startups get up close and personal

Medical startups get up close and personal

Mar 30, 2022 | , ,

Three Israeli MedTech companies offer major advances in tailor-made medicine Nobel laureate Aaron Ciechanover vividly remembers the day the first partial genome was published in April 2000. It was a landmark moment, heralding the promise of personalized medicine, tailor-made to individual patients. Today, scientists can sequence a whole genome “in no time,” and together with other scientific advances, they “have tools to profile the patient, to the very last detail, almost to the very last detail,” Ciechanover told a webinar on precision medicine hosted by OurCrowd and featuring three of its portfolio companies. “Now we can connect it also to the treatment, and we can monitor whether patients do respond to treatment, and how they respond to treatment, how they develop side effects,” says Ciechanover, winner of the 2004 Nobel prize for chemistry. “If you connect all these data, you are generating unbelievable predictive tools.’’ Ciechanover now serves as the scientific advisor to OncoHost, one of three OurCrowd startups discussing predictive diagnostics at the webinar: Sequentify, whose sample-processing technologies dramatically reduce the time and cost of next-generation DNA sequencing;...

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OurCrowd High-Tech Jobs Index Q4 2021

OurCrowd High-Tech Jobs Index Q4 2021

Mar 22, 2022 | , ,

Israeli high-tech startups plan hiring spree in 2022 as pandemic recedes Battle for software/R&D staff intensifies amid shortage of qualified candidates As pandemic fears decline, startup recruitment plans rebound in sharp reversal from Q3 2021Job-seeker’s market continues as majority of startups increase recruitment in Q4 2021 and make plans to hire more employees in 2022Majority of startups report widespread shortage of qualified candidates with software/R&D staff most in demandHybrid work patterns continue, but may harm productivity for some companies“We’re now growing almost 100%, across R&D, operations and sales.” – Dror Talisman, CEO of NeuroBrave Ltd“It’s harder to find people with certain specific expertise. The ‘fight’ over highly qualified hires has increased in Q4 over Q3. In multiple cases we had to raise salaries to fight and get the employee on board.” – CEO, Israeli high-tech startupPLEASE NOTE: This report was compiled before the Russian invasion of Ukraine The OurCrowd High-Tech Jobs Index is a quarterly report and data series tracking vacancies and hiring patterns at high-tech companies in Israel and abroad. All data is based on a survey and the Portfolio Jobs...

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Fintech Week Tel Aviv 2022

Fintech Week Tel Aviv 2022

Dec 14, 2021 | , ,

21-23 MARCH 2022 | TEL AVIV STOCK EXCHANGE Fintech Week Tel Aviv 2022 21-23 MARCH 2022 | TEL AVIV STOCK EXCHANGE finechweektelaviv.com Fintech Week Tel Aviv is an annual conference bringing together players from a host of global fintech hotspots and financial services world to look at the very latest issues, deliberate, share ideas and look at ways to collaborate and do business, all under the Tel Aviv sun. As Covid-19 continues to cast its shadow of upheaval, the accelerated digitisation of the economy that it’s triggered has given rise to new opportunities for the fintech sector and placed it firmly in the spotlight. Challenges aside, the sector is poised to leverage its unique attributes to aid the recovery process, and to bolster financial services. This means also that there is much to discuss. Fintech Week Tel Aviv 2022 will delve into the issues, look at the pain points, and successes, and what we have learnt during the past, highly turbulent 24 months. With a thriving entrepreneurial culture, deep pool of talent, penchant for disruptive innovation, Israel is a...

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