Press release

Jerusalem, Israel November 4, 2013: OurCrowd, Israel’s leading equity crowdfunding platform for accredited investors, announced today that it has closed a strategic co-investment partnership with GE Ventures, the corporate venture capital unit of GE. Read more...

Jerusalem, Israel September 23, 2013:OurCrowd, Israel’s leading equity crowdfunding platform for accredited investors, has begun general solicitation of US investors for deals in compliance with new regulations issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that go into effect today. Until now, OurCrowd and other equity crowdfunding platforms have been unable to generally solicit or generally advertise to US investors about investment opportunities. Read more here....

Jerusalem, Israel September 10, 2013: OurCrowd, Israel’s equity crowdfunding platform for accredited investors, announced today that it has successfully raised over $20M in the aggregate for its 26 portfolio companies. Read more...

Jerusalem, Israel June 25, 2013:  OurCrowd, the leading equity crowdfunding platform for accredited investors, announced today that as part of its commitment to social responsibility, it will require its Israeli portfolio companies to commit a portion of their equity to Tmura – The Israeli Public Service Venture Fund. Tmura is a non-profit organization that enables early-stage companies to donate equity stocks and stock options, and the actual contribution will be realized when the company makes an “exit” or goes public. OurCrowd is the first funding platform in the world to require its companies to make this type of commitment as a condition to closing funding rounds. Read more...

Jerusalem, Israel June 12, 2013: Israel’s hybrid VC-crowdfunding platform OurCrowd congratulates Gadi Mazor, General Partner and CTO, on winning the BlackBerry Achievement Award for Entrepreneur of the Year. Mr. Mazor is the creator of Nobex Radio for BlackBerry, an innovative mobile radio app that has reached over 12 million registered users. Read more...