[Times of Israel] OurCrowd crowdfunding investments hit $60 million
“Far ahead of the pack in fundraising, the Israeli ‘angel-style’ fund now has 46 companies in its portfolio.”
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[Plastiq in Venture Beat] Ditch your checkbook: Plastiq nabs $10M so that you can pay for anything with a credit card
Payments startup Plastiq closed new $10 million round of funding today to enable people to pay with their credit cards anywhere. The startup’s service essentially replaces things that require paper checks, wire transfers, money orders, or ACH (Automated Clearing House) payments with credit cards. For a small fee (between 1.89 percent and 2.89 percent of the transaction in Canada), people can use their card instead. Some banks, such as Bank of America, already offer services that mail paper checks to landlords and other merchants, but Plastiq is taking a more universal approach. Read more on Venture...
Read More[Leaders Magazine] Financing Innovation
LEADERS Magazine features an interview with OurCrowd CEO Jonathan Medved in the Entrepreneurship section of their latest issue.
Read MoreOurCrowd’s portfolio company eVigilo featured on Times of Israel
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. After a year-long pilot program, Israel’s Homefront Command selected Israeli firm eVigilo’s SMART Internet to power its new iOref app, which will be ready for download later this summer. Using push message technology that finds users without their having to connect to a service, iOref’s iPhone, Android and Windows mobile apps will deliver alerts and notifications to everyone in Israel using the app, or to users in a specific part of the country. It’s a kind of personalization of the “Red Alert” loudspeaker system that warns residents of Israel’s south of incoming rockets from Gaza, taking advantage of the fact that Israelis have among the most smartphones per capita in the world. eVigilo raised $385,000 from OurCrowd investors in September 2013. Read more on The Times of...
Read MoreOurCrowd’s portfolio company ReWalk featured on Fox News
OurCrowd portfolio company ReWalk was featured on Fox News, a leading American television news network. FDA approved ReWalk has developed an exoskeleton device that enables paraplegics with an independent, natural walking experience that provides them numerous social, psychological, and physical benefits. ReWalk raised $1,320,000 from OurCrowd investors in June 2013. Click here to watch the Fox News video interview with a ReWalk...
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