OurCrowd to Host its First Virtual Job Fair on Jan. 17
Event will highlight thousands of available vacancies at more than 170 startup companies
Monday, January 17th, 2022
5-7pm Israel Time
JERUSALEM, Jan. 12, 2022 – OurCrowd, Israel’s most active venture firm, will host the OurCrowd Virtual Job Fair on Monday, Jan 17th. The online event will highlight thousands of vacancies across OurCrowd’s portfolio companies and feature CEOs and HR experts who will advise jobseekers on resumes, interviews, self-marketing, and better use of LinkedIn.
Workshops will be led by Wendy Singer, Executive Director of Start-Up Nation Central; Alexandra Borok, Talent Account Director of LinkedIn; and Helen Gottstein, an expert in executive communications and strategy.
Jobseekers wishing to attend can register for 1:1 interviews and upload their resume at: https://events.ourcrowd.com/ourcrowd-job-fair/
Laly David, OurCrowd Partner and Head of Business Development, said: “We at OurCrowd are continuously looking for the most relevant ways to add value to our portfolio companies and support their path to growth. We are excited to be holding the first OurCrowd Virtual Job Fair to benefit our portfolio companies and help connect job seekers with a multitude of career options in the most exciting startups in the ecosystem.”
The two-hour virtual event will feature CEOs from OurCrowd portfolio companies Clinch, Tailor Brands, Bizzabo, Tetavi, Morphisec, Intuition Robotics, Insightec, Taranis and Thetaray, who will conduct one-on-one interviews with potential candidates.
Event partners include Start-Up Nation Central, Scale-Up Velocity, Tel Aviv Internationals, Gvahim and Nefesh B’Nefesh.
OurCrowd’s website hosts a Jobs page which currently carries more than 4,300 vacancies, from 177 OurCrowd portfolio companies in positions ranging from branding lead to head engineer to senior product manager. OurCrowd also publishes a quarterly High-Tech Jobs Index which tracks employment trends in the sector. The next edition will be released in February.
Taranis CEO Bar Veinstein said: “We are growing fast and we’re hiring more people. We are looking for people that love technology, whether it’s cloud, drone, satellite, data, and really making the world a better place. If you have that buzz, or that bug, of ‘I want to do something that really makes a difference,’ Taranis is a place for you.”
Clinch CTO & Co-founder Raz Peter said: “We are a leading dynamic creative personalization platform in the high-tech industry providing valuable services to many Fortune 500 companies using our innovative product. If you’re looking for a really challenging and satisfying job working with such a great team, we would love to meet you.”
OurCrowd is also hiring, with open positions in a wide range of key departments. CEO Jon Medved said: “We are busy helping to grow and support the leading entrepreneurial companies both in Israel and the world that are meeting global challenges. When you work at OurCrowd, or at one of our portfolio companies, you are the in the middle of all that is going on in today’s fast-paced tech world.”
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About OurCrowd: OurCrowd is the online global venture investing platform that empowers institutions and individual accredited investors to invest and engage in emerging technology companies before they go public. Acclaimed by Pitchbook as the most active venture investor in Israel, OurCrowd vets and selects companies across all sectors and stages, invests its own capital, and provides its global platform of over 160,000 registered members from 195 countries with unparalleled access and freedom to co-invest from as little as $10,000 in the companies and funds of their choice. Founded by CEO Jon Medved in 2013 with the vision of democratizing world-class venture capital investing, OurCrowd has grown rapidly into the world’s leading online venture investing platform and as of 2021 has received over $1.8 billion in commitments and has deployed capital into more than 280 portfolio companies and 30 funds across five continents. To date, OurCrowd’s startups have recorded 50 exits including several stock market listings: Beyond Meat, Lemonade, Innoviz, Hub Security; and numerous high- profile acquisitions: JUMP by Uber, BriefCam by Canon, Argus by Continental, Crosswise by Oracle, Replay by Intel, Corephotonics by Samsung, CyberX by Microsoft, and Kenna Security by Cisco. OurCrowd builds value for its portfolio companies throughout their lifecycles, providing mentorship, recruiting industry advisors, navigating follow-on rounds and creating growth opportunities through its network of multinational partnerships. For more information visit www.ourcrowd.com.
PRESS CONTACT: OurCrowd: Leah Stern, Partner, Global Communications / Europe: +44 7470196826 / E: leah@ourcrowd.com
