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Startup Roundup

OurCrowd sees $4M invested in 24 hours at Global Investor Summit 

OC_logo_squareOurCrowd announced that over $4 million had already been invested in the first day of its Global Investor Summit, which brought together nearly 1,000 participants from 27 countries to Jerusalem. The conference opened December 9th with welcoming words by OurCrowd Founder & CEO Jon Medved and Mayor of Jerusalem and former venture capitalist Nir Barkat. To read more about the Summit and the selection of tech leaders, entrepreneurs, and VCs that took part in various panels, keynote talks, and tours, click here.


OurCrowd in the News

     

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OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved 

discusses the "beating

tech heart" of Israel with

CNN's Richard Quest

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OurCrowd's Global Investor

 Summit was featured in

The Jerusalem Post

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OurCrowd's Danna Mann 

discusses the Global

Investor Summit on

Voice of Israel

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Jewish Business News

featured OurCrowd's

portfolio companies

Highcon & Appforma

 
 

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OurCrowd's portfolio company

ReWalk featured in

CNN Money

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OurCrowd's portfolio company

BriefCam featured on

Bloomberg TV

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OurCrowd's portfolio company

Consumer Physics featured in

Tech in Asia

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OurCrowd's portfolio company

Bizzabo featured in

TIME

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OurCrowd's portfolio company

Freightos featured in

Fast Company

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OurCrowd's portfolio company

Apploi featured on

ABC 7 New York

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OurCrowd Events

San Francisco, CA

Join OurCrowd for an exclusive investor

wine dinner with a 5-course menu by 

Chef Anthony Yang & Hand of God Wines.

Featuring David S. Rose.

December 17th, 2014

6:30PM cocktails, 7:15PM dinner

Accredited investors only


Technology Corner

10 Israeli startups to follow closely in 2015

OC_logo_squareOf the thousands of Israeli startups vying to become global businesses, only a small percentage of them will make it to the big leagues. Everyone wants to bet big on the next Waze, Wix, or Outbrain. So which ones are on the verge of greatness? Here are some up-and-coming Israeli startups that Ben Lang, the creator of Mapped In Israel, believes you should watch closely in 2015. To read moreclick here


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Trending Israeli Entrepreneurs

Ilan Ganot founded biotech company - Solid Ventures - to save his little boy

1029192In 2012, Ilan Ganot's son, Eytani, was diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a rare disease whose potential treatments tend to languish in the lab for lack of funding. Ganot doesn’t know much about medicine but he does know finance, so he quit his job at JPMorgan and founded a for-profit company, Solid Ventures, aggressively devoted to identifying, acquiring and developing therapies for the genetic disorder. To read about how Ganot shifted the focus of his career to save his son, click here


Seeds of ‘Startup Nation’ cultivated by Israel Sci-Tech Schools

Top students in Israel gain beyond-their-years access to top military tech at the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) industrial vocational high school. Run by Israel Sci-Tech Schools, more than 300 students get hands-on training in the disciplines of aviation mechanics, electricity and energy control, and unmanned air vehicles (drones). They then move on to the air force for state-mandated military service, most likely returning to the aviation industry—often back to IAI, the campus they once called “high school.” To read more, click here.


The scale-up nation: Israel turns its Davids into Goliaths

Recent talk about the Startup Nation has focused less on the super-abundance of startups and more on the scarcity of big successful companies. While it's tempting to dismiss the talk of a “scale-up nation” as hype, reforms and exits show that one should not underestimate Israel’s capacity for patience, one of its hidden secrets, in business as in much else. Israelis laboriously laid the foundations of the high-tech boom and they will be equally painstaking at ensuring that the land of Davids can produce its share of Goliaths. To read moreclick here.


OurCrowd's News Nuggets

News_NuggetsAllflex Group acquires Israeli dairy tech firm SCR for $250M (Globes)
CyberSec Nation: Why Israel leads the world in protecting the web (NoCamels)
Israeli modem chipset startup, Sckipio, raises $17M (VentureBeat)
Israel's social investment network, eToro, raises $27M (Finovate)
Israeli nano-GPS powers ‘selfie’ nano-drone (Times of Israel)