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OurCrowd makes the first 8 investments from its Israel Resilience Fund
Israeli investment platform OurCrowd today announced that it now has $13 million in capital commitments for its $50 million Israel Resilience Fund, a fund the organization launched shortly after the…
OurCrowd teams up with Airwallex to let its investors back startups in their local currency
Over the course of the last few years, venture investment platform OurCrowd has become Israel’s most active venture investor, with over 400 portfolio companies across 42 funds. The platform allows…
NeuReality lands $35M to bring AI accelerator chips to market
The growing demand for AI, particularly generative AI (i.e., AI that generates images, text and more), is supercharging the AI inferencing chip market. Inferencing chips accelerate the AI inferencing process,…
Global investment platform OurCrowd, which has now become Israel’s most active venture firm, today announced that it is expanding its operations in Abu Dhabi by launching a new office and…
OurCrowd, the global crowdfunding venture firm, today announced its newest fund. As the organization announced at today’s Clinton Global Initiative event in New York, it is partnering with the WHO…
Mermade Seafoods swims in cell agriculture waters to make cultivated scallops
Mermade Seafoods’ circular approach uses biowaste to feed algae, which is then used as the growth media to feed the cells. The company calls this interpretation of aquaponics “cytoponics.”
YuLife picks up $120M at an $800M valuation for gamified, wellness-focused life insurance
YuLife originally made a name for itself in its home market of the U.K. for its new approach to the provisioning of life insurance: Yes, sell a policy that provides…
Maolac pours new funding into superfood mimicking breast milk health benefits
The company identifies and extracts functional proteins from bovine colostrum and uses them to make milk protein mixtures that could be used for different immune-boosting applications.
Tabnine, a startup creating an “AI-powered assistant” for software developers, today closed a $15.5 million funding round co-led by Qualcomm Ventures, OurCrowd and Samsung NEXT Ventures with participation from existing…
Indoor navigation was something we heard about a lot after the launch of the iPhone and during that first wave of location-based apps. But the technology has quietly evolved over…
Future Family takes in new capital as need for fertility treatments increases
Less than a year after a Series A extension, Future Family, a startup aiming to make fertility services, like IVF and egg freezing, easier, is back with $25 million in…
Plantish fishes for restaurant partners to try plant-based salmon filets
Plantish aims to get its salmon product into the first five restaurants by December 2023.
Scopio aims to turn hematology into remote work with $50M C round
Today, if a hematologist wanted to dive into the exact organization and structure of your blood cells, they’d probably need a microscope in a lab. Scopio, an Israel-based startup that…
Sayata developed a fully automated way for brokers to provide several insurance quotes from leading providers based on a few pieces of information about the business.
Spectrum Labs raises $32M for AI-based content moderation that monitors billions of conversations daily for toxicity
Two years into the pandemic, online conversations are for many of us still the primary interactions that we are having every day, and we are collectively having billions of them.…
Shield bags $15M Series A to address surging demand for its AI-powered communication compliance platform
Over the past two years, since the pandemic hit, there has been a sharp rise in financial crime compliance costs, nearing $50 billion in 2021, up 58% compared to 2019,…
Flytrex raises $40M to build its drone-based delivery service across suburbs in the US
Flytrex, the Israeli startup working with Walmart, Chili’s, and others in North Carolina in pilots for a drone-based delivery service targeting suburban consumers, has picked up $40 million in funding…
Female founders are making a buzzing, venture-backed comeback
We’ll have a clearer view of 2021 when all the data trickles in after the conclusion of Q4, but it’s clear that female-founded startups are having a better year than…
HoneyBook doubles valuation with new round as it helps independent workers get paid
Not only did HoneyBook double its annual recurring revenue since the beginning of 2021, the company also more than doubled its new subscribers in the last 12 months.
Israeli venture platform OurCrowd today announced that SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 has made a $25 million convertible equity investment into the firm. As part of this deal, OurCrowd is also…
Cyabra gets $5.6M Series A to launch news disinformation detection analysis tools
Misinformation and disinformation content has continued to increase across social media channels, and its effects have impacted every type of organization, from the public to private organizations. A Tel Aviv,…
MagniLearn uses AI to help students learn new languages, raises $2.8M
There’s nothing easy about learning a language, and so it’s also maybe no surprise that there are plenty of startups that want to make life easier for students. But while…
AI chipmaker Hailo raises $136M as it doubles down new opportunities for AI modules in edge devices
Amid a global semiconductor shortage, an upstart in the world of AI chips is announcing a big round of funding to meet a boom in demand for its technology. Hailo,…
Tailor Brands raises $50M, aims to be one-stop shop for small businesses to launch
Tailor Brands, a startup that automates parts of the branding and marketing process for small businesses, announced Thursday it has raised $50 million in Series C funding.
Sweetch raises $20M for a personalized engagement system designed to boost health outcomes
You’ve just sat down to dinner and your wearable device reminds you to get up and get in your steps for the day. Maybe the app has a point, but…
Golden Ventures raises $100M fourth fund and $20M opportunities fund
Canadian early-stage venture firm Golden Ventures has raised its fourth fund, a $100 million pool of capital that it will use to invest in between 20 to 25 companies, as…
Approaching institutions to raise capital for your venture capital or private equity fund is relatively transparent, but what if you’re targeting family offices and high-net-worth individuals?
Materials Zone raises $6M for its materials discovery platform
Materials Zone, a Tel Aviv-based startup that uses AI to speed up materials research, today announced that it has raised a $6 million seed funding round led by Insight Partners,…
Memic, a startup developing a robotic-assisted surgical platform that recently received marketing authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, today announced that it has closed a $96 million Series…
Waterfund commits $50M to OurCrowd’s water and agtech portfolio
Waterfund, an investment and trading firm that specializes in acquiring and managing water-related infrastructure assets, today announced a deal with Israel-based crowdfunding platform OurCrowd that will see the Waterfund team…
