Category Archives: Venture capital
With $2 Billion, OurCrowd Gets Ready for Another Decade of Growth
OurCrowd will host its 10th anniversary celebration at the OurCrowd Global Investor Summit on February 15, 2023, in Jerusalem, Israel, preparing for another decade of active global investing from its base in Startup Nation. Read more
Funding Health Equity
The Global Health Equity Fund is a $200 million unique financial-first impact venture capital investment fund. Read more
SoftBank Invests in OurCrowd
SoftBank Vision Fund 2 will invest $25 million in OurCrowd, a global venture investing platform serving both institutions and individual accredited investors. Read more
The Extreme-Risk-Takers Driving Innovation
Angel investors are the consistent, reliable, patient—and hidden—catalysts of the U.S. economy. Read more
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Would You Like to Invest in Scale-Up Nation?
Israel-based venture capital firm and investment platform iAngels announced the closing of $55.5 million in capital for iAngels Ventures, the firm’s first institutional fund. Read more
Startups Continue to Hire During the Pandemic
Jerusalem-based venture investing platform OurCrowd released the first installment of the quarterly OurCrowd Jobs Index showing that the number of open positions listed by OurCrowd’s portfolio companies rose from 350 in June 2020 to 912 in December 2020. The startups surveyed by … Continue reading
Pandemic Tech Trends and Startups
At the OurCrowd Pandemic Innovation Conference on June 22, 2020, Stav Erez and Dr. Jonathan Wiesen presented the top 10 tech trends emerging from the current global pandemic Read more here
Pandemic Innovation Fund to Raise $100 Million
Jerusalem-based OurCrowd, the world’s largest crowdfunded-venture investment platform, plans to raise $100 million for its new Pandemic Innovation Fund, investing in technological solutions for the medical, business, educational and social needs triggered by global pandemics and other health emergencies. Read more … Continue reading
Best of 2019: Avram Miller and Lessons for Corporate VCs
[June 18, 2019] Corporate venture capital (CVC) firms broke records last year. Funding increased 47% to $52.95 billion and 264 new corporate venture groups invested for the first time, a 35% increase over 2017. There were 773 active CVCs worldwide … Continue reading
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Best of 2019: The Global Restructuring of Startup Funding
[April 15, 2019] The venture capital industry is under attack. Prominent VC firm Andreessen Horowitz is “blowing up the venture capital model,” transforming itself into a “financial adviser” so it can beat “antiquated rules about what is and isn’t a … Continue reading