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The History of Online Investing

The History of Online Investing

Jun 16, 2014 | , ,

This week, the global OurCrowd team gathered in the Jerusalem office for the first ever employee training seminar. The partners presented internally on a multitude of topics, ranging from the Venture Capital industry in Israel to the everyday tasks of the various OurCrowd departments. Below is a slide deck from Zack Miller, Partner and head of the investor community at OurCrowd, about the evolution of online investing. The financial service industry, like most things nowadays, has migrated towards social online platforms. Information on stocks, funds and investment opportunities, which were once only accessible to Wall Street stock brokers, can now be found 24/7 on one of many online forums. From Charles Schwab, to WealthFront and OurCrowd, this evolution is breeding a new type of investor, who is self-sufficient and knows the power of the information at hand. History of Online Investing from...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company The Trendlines Group was featured in Globes

Jun 12, 2014 | ,

OurCrowd portfolio company The Trendlines Group was featured in Globes, the leading Israeli financial daily. The Trendlines Group establishes, invests in, and develops innovation-based medical and agritech businesses that improve the human condition. Trendlines International Ltd., an investment company active in medical devices and agritech, has filed a prospectus for an offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange… it is estimated that the company will seek to raise between a few million dollars and tens of millions, at a valuation in the tens of millions. Trendlines generally invests around $500,000 in its portfolio companies, and not more than $5 million. A large part of the investment is financed by the Chief Scientist. The group has 52 portfolio companies, and seeks to continue setting up companies at a rate of 8-10 a year.   The Trendlines Group raised $900,000 from OurCrowd investors in May 2013. Read more on...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company The Trendlines Group was featured in the Times of Israel

Jun 12, 2014 | ,

OurCrowd portfolio company The Trendlines Group was featured in the Times of Israel, an English-language news website covering Israel, the region & the Jewish world. The Trendlines Group establishes, invests in, and develops innovation-based medical and agritech businesses that improve the human condition. Israel-based Trendlines Group’s medical technology incubator on Tuesday night was named the best incubator in Israel by the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS). Two Trendlines portfolio companies — MitrAssist, a company in the medtech incubator, and Advanced Mem-Tech, a member of the Trendlines Agriculture Technology incubator — were named best start-ups of the year by the OCS. The awards the company received in Tel Aviv were not the biggest piece of news for Trendlines this week. Earlier Tuesday, the company filed for an IPO on the Toronto Stock Exchange.   The Trendlines Group raised $900,000 from OurCrowd investors in May 2013. Read more on the Times of...

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OurCrowd’s Portfolio Company Zula featured in TechCrunch

Jun 12, 2014 | ,

Leading technology website, TechCrunch, featured OurCrowd portfolio company Zula. The company aims to revolutionize team communication for an increasingly mobile world. Israeli startup Zula, the team communication app founded by VoIP pioneers Jeff Pulver(Vonage) and Jacob Ner-David (Delta Three), has closed a $3 million series A round. The round was led by Morton Meyerson of 2M, who is joined by Ourcrowd, Microsoft Ventures, Nathan Low, and Doug Pauly. Describing itself these days as a cross-platform team communication app, Zula was first unveiled to the world in July of last year, and then went on to appear in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in San Francisco that September as the audience choice.   Zula raised $350,000 from OurCrowd investors in May 2013 and $560,000 in a follow-on funding round in 2014. Read more on...

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Finding the space to invest: SpaceIL and Israel’s place in the new space race

Finding the space to invest: SpaceIL and Israel’s place in the new space race

Jun 11, 2014 | ,

OurCrowd launched a new webinar series called ‘Teach-In Tuesdays’. In this series, we’ll explore investing in early-stage Israeli companies, identify and explain influential tech trends, stay up-to-date with the crowdfunding industry, and examine actionable insights from our own experience running OurCrowd’s investment platform. Yesterday, we held a webcast as part of the OurCrowd Teach-In Tuesdays series on SpaceIL’s audacious vision to make history by landing the first Israeli spacecraft on the moon (on a shoe-string budget). SpaceIL is competing for $20 million as part of the Google LunarX Prize competition to encourage entrepreneurial activity in the space sector. Additional topics covered in the webcast: Why donors (including Sheldon Adelson for $16.4 million) are so passionate about contributing to Israel and SpaceIL The amazing story behind the founding of SpaceIL, crowdsourcing,  and what drives the founders to try and get to the moon How the team is developing a grassroots — volunteer — ecosystem around space travel and what the future looks like for the hundreds of engineers volunteering to make this a reality Featured experts: Yariv Bash, co-founder of SpaceIL. Yariv holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University. In his spare time,...

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