Press release

Jerusalem – November 1, 2016 – OurCrowd, a global leader in equity crowdfunding announced today that it has launched Israel’s first exclusively focused digital health fund: OurCrowd Qure. The fund will focus on Seed and Series A rounds investing in innovative digital health startups. This is OurCrowd’s first sector fund dedicated to the rapidly developing digital health market valued globally at $70 billion US in 2015 and projected to be over $230 billion US by 2020. Read more here....

Jerusalem, Israel, October 27, 2016 – OurCrowd, the world’s leading equity crowdfunding platform, has announced that Alec Ellison, former Vice Chairman of Jefferies, LLC, and Chairman of the Technology Investment Banking group, has joined the OurCrowd Advisory Board. Prior to Jefferies, Ellison was President of Broadview International (which Jefferies acquired).  He began his banking career at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Ellison holds a B.A. from Yale and an M.B.A. from Harvard, where he was a Baker Scholar. Read more here....

Jerusalem, September 21, 2016 – OurCrowd, the global equity crowdfunding leader announced today the closing of $72 million in Series C funding. Participants in this latest round include financial institutions, family offices, and private investors from five continents. Read more here....

Singapore / New York / Jerusalem, 17 August 2016 – United Overseas Bank (UOB) is deepening its commitment to helping startups grow into sustainable businesses by training its commercial bankers to provide clients with the most up-to-date information on alternative funding channels beyond traditional financing. More than 100 of its bankers have been trained so far. Read more...

Jerusalem, June 29, 2016 – OurCrowd, a leading global crowdfunding VC, announces the Israeli launch of Radicle, an accelerator fund dedicated to growing early stage agricultural technology startups into proven industry leaders.  The fund is launched in partnership with Finistere Ventures, Cloud Break Advisors, and an alliance of top agricultural industry leaders, including Bayer and DuPont.  Radicle aims to reduce the time to develop, market, and commercialize new agriculture technologies. Read more here....