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Gates Ventures, Mayo Clinic Back Tiny Robot Created By $400M Apple Face ID Inventors To Treat Brain Disease
Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 9:37am | 1328Michael Shpigelmacher, Founder and CEO of Bionaut Labs, with the company’s micro-robot designed to swim through the central nervous system into the brain to treat disease now on trial in the U.S. PrimeSense, the previous company founded by Michael Shpigelmacher, Aviad Maizels and Alex Shpunt...
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CytoReason's AI-Driven Disease Model Platform Trusted By 5 Top 10 Pharma Companies Harnesses Big Data To Speed Drug Discovery And Development
Monday, February 5, 2024 - 9:21am | 1078Click here to learn more about CytoReason and how to invest through OurCrowd. Big data is transforming everything from the way we drive to the way we shop or even the way we consume energy. But when it comes to healthcare and fighting diseases, it still takes 10 or more years to bring a drug...
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Speak And Be Saved: App Detects Heart Failure Weeks Before Attack
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 9:14am | 1077The HearO app can diagnose congestive heart failure from the sound of your voice long before symptoms appear (Cordio Medical) Cordio Medical’s HearO designated as FDA Breakthrough Device as pilots run across US, Europe “The puppy sat on the ship.” That...
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Startup Reduces Sugar In Natural Beverages Without Spoiling The Taste; Juice, Dairy Industries Could Be Ripe For BlueTree Technologies
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 - 9:33am | 759Yossi Sefi, Chief Technical Officer of BlueTree, samples the company’s sugar-reduced orange juice More than half of the global population – 51%, or over 4 billion people – will be obese by 2035, according to a 2023 report from the World Obesity Atlas. One of the major causes of...
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Giving The Global Investing "Crowd" Access To Startup Investments – How OurCrowd Offers Investments Historically Limited To VC-Level Investors To Accredited Individual Investors Too
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 - 9:22am | 1079Looking for the next unicorn to invest in? Check out OurCrowd’s growing list of portfolio companies. From artificial intelligence to telehealth, startups from all corners of the world are churning out innovative and game-changing technology, businesses and solutions. Historically,...
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Artificial Intelligence: OurCrowd's 20 Verticals For Investors To Watch
Tuesday, January 9, 2024 - 9:32am | 2912AI seems to be the world’s fastest-growing investment sector. The rush of interest in ChatGPT and similar generative AI platforms has triggered a global wave of funding for the new technology. “Artificial intelligence may be one of the biggest technological leaps in history. It is...
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OurCrowd Launches $100M Pandemic Innovation Fund: 'It's Time For Tech To Move Fast And Fix Things'
Tuesday, June 2, 2020 - 8:02am | 362OurCrowd, the world’s largest crowdfunded-venture investment solution, formally announced Tuesday the launch of the Pandemic Innovation Fund, an effort that will raise and direct up to $100 million toward technology solutions for the medical, business, educational, and social needs triggered...
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Israel-Based OurCrowd, 7thirty Partner To Create $30M Cannabis Tech VC Fund
Saturday, January 26, 2019 - 6:00pm | 338Israeli investment platform OurCrowd has partnered with the cannabis-focused early stage growth equity fund 7thirty to create a global cannabis technology venture capital fund. What Happened The new fund created by OurCrowd and 7thirty will be based in Boulder, Colorado with $30...
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'It's Only Going To Continue To Grow': The Economics Of eSports
Tuesday, March 20, 2018 - 7:32am | 509As the competitive eSports arena continues the shift toward a franchise-based league model, new opportunities to expand the viewer base and generate revenue have arisen. Ownership As the eSports arena grows in popularity and scope, the landscape increasingly resembles that of a professional...
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LogMeIn Expands Network Support Services With Nanorep Acquisition
Thursday, August 3, 2017 - 1:23pm | 322Nanorep, a private equity firm that develops chatbots and artificial intelligence for customer self-service, sold itself to LogMeIn Tuesday for $45 million with the potential addition of another $5 million based on performance. The firm’s technology has supported about 500 customers,...
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OurCrowd and Land Rover Think They've Found The Future Of Mobility
Friday, July 28, 2017 - 11:14am | 1367A startup investing fund in Israel announced that it raised $40 million to fund investment in driverless car technology. Maniv Mobility raised the money from startup crowdfunding investment platform OurCrowd, Tata Motors Limited (NYSE: TTM) subsidiary Land Rover’s investing arm, and auto...
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Is Southeast Asia Poised To Become The Next Locus For Startups?
Friday, June 30, 2017 - 12:34pm | 730For some investors, the term “emerging markets” might conjure up the thought of nations like China, Taiwan, and Singapore. The thought that comes to mind is that these countries have a plethora of great value stocks that are poised to thrive as their respective industrial and consumer...
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Will Venture Capital Drive The Future Of Mobility?
Friday, June 30, 2017 - 12:33pm | 684The autonomous vehicle market is set to more than quadruple from $10 billion to over $43 billion globally over the next five years, according to research from Statista. This estimate should not come as a surprise to those paying attention to how innovators in the transportation field have been...
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The State Of Startup Funding On Each Of The 7 Continents
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 2:27pm | 888The startup world is flush with cash right now. In fact, there’s so much private funding floating around that companies are avoiding going public in favor of chasing fruitful private markets. Companies like Uber are pursuing that strategy (CEO woes notwithstanding), having raised nearly $9...
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Global Startup Crowdfunding Platform OurCrowd Expands To India, Australia
Thursday, June 8, 2017 - 2:02pm | 407OurCrowd, an equity crowdfunding platform that allows investors to invest in private companies, announced that it was expanding into some of the world’s largest markets this week. The company formally announced the launch of strategic partnerships with Reliance Private Client, a major wealth...