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Outgoing OurCrowd CEO and founder Jon Medved (right) with the venture investment firm's acting CEO Cali Chill. (Courtesy)
October 22, 2025, 12:17 pm
OurCrowd’s Medved bullish about defense tech as he steps down as CEO, becomes chairman
Veteran investor and founder of the venture investment platform hands over the reins after 12 years for medical reasons, sees foreign investors continuing to bet on local tech
By Sharon Wrobel
Samsung Electronics headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, file (AFP)
June 27, 2024, 5:01 pm
Backed by S. Korean government, OurCrowd forms joint $80m fund for startup investment
The bilateral Israel-Korea venture fund will invest in 25-30 startups in both countries focused on semiconductors, robotics, automotive, digital health, and quantum computing
By Sharon Wrobel
OurCrowd founder Jon Medved, left, signs an agreement to expand the company in the UAE with support from the Abu Dhabi Investment Office, November 2022. Acting director-general of ADIO, Abdulla Abdul Aziz AlShamsi, also signed the agreement. (Courtesy / OurCrowd)
November 16, 2022, 10:14 am
Two Israeli companies join $545m innovation program in Abu Dhabi
OurCrowd to open VC office, AI tech hub in UAE; fintech company Liquidity Group, a fund manager, will set up R&D center as part of a government incentive scheme for global outfits
By Ricky Ben-David
WHO Foundation CEO Anil Soni with OurCrowd founder and CEO Jon Medved, September 2022. (Aurelio Di Muzio)
September 19, 2022, 11:46 pm
OurCrowd, WHO Foundation roll out $200m global health equity fund
Fund to invest in global healthcare initiatives, with emphasis on ‘breakthrough tech,’ equitable access to care
By Ricky Ben-David
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July 11, 2022, 11:33 am
Israelis expect Saudi breakthrough as Biden visit rolls back Sand Curtain
Improving Israel’s relations with the Arab Middle East is a rare and precious point of bipartisan agreement in US politics
By Jon Medved
Illustrative image of a team on the peak of mountain; high valuations, reaching goals (FotoMaximum; iStock by Getty Images)
May 26, 2021, 2:58 pm
Israeli tech surges with investors jumping in as COVID spurs digitalization
Israel created unicorns at the astounding rate of one a week in Q1 this year; experts say corrections may come, but tech is on a long-term upward trend
By Shoshanna Solomon
Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic, poses for a photo outside the New York Stock Exchange as fireworks are exploded before his company's IPO, performed via a reverse merger with a SPAC, on Monday, Oct. 28, 2019. (AP/Richard Drew)
February 22, 2021, 4:32 pm
Israeli startups join craze as SPACs pack stock market with quickie IPOs
Special purpose acquisition companies are outpacing the traditional way to go public in the US, and Israeli regulators are in talks to bring them here as well
By Shoshanna Solomon
Waving flag of Israel and Japan (alexis84; iStock by Getty Imaging)
November 19, 2020, 2:06 pm
Japan’s ORIX to invest $60 million in OurCrowd funds, startups
Investment will give Japanese financial services firm access to Israeli tech; firms will work together to increase startup opportunities in Asia
By Shoshanna Solomon
OurCrowd's Jon Medved speaks at the OurCrowd Global Summit, February 16, 2017 in Jerusalem, (Yosef Adest)
June 2, 2020, 3:09 pm
Israel’s OurCrowd to set up $100 million fund to invest in pandemic-busting tech
The Pandemic Innovation Fund to focus on vaccines and testing; digital health; remote working and distance learning apps, among other technology
By Shoshanna Solomon
US Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt speaks at a conference in New York City, June 16, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)
February 26, 2020, 3:12 pm
Ex-Trump Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt joins Israeli venture capital firm
OurCrowd says architect of US peace plan, who resigned from the administration in October, will be in charge of ‘building ties with the Middle East region’
By Ilan Ben Zion
A billboard for the GoForIsrael conference at a train station in China. (Courtesy GoForIsrael)
May 26, 2019, 3:02 pm
Israeli firms fly out to woo China investors despite myriad of potential hazards
A trade war with the US and a host of other worries are not stopping some 100 companies from heading east, where they will be welcomed by a massive market hungry for innovation
By Joshua Davidovich and Shoshanna Solomon
Illustrative image of pets with a vet (humonia; iStock by Getty Images)
March 7, 2019, 8:57 am
OurCrowd to set up Israel pet health tech hub with Australian partner
Innovation lab will aim at growing field of digital health technologies for pets, a global market worth billions
By Shoshanna Solomon
A cannabis plant at the Knesset in 2009 for a meeting on medical marijuana in the parliament's Labor, Welfare and Health Committee. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
January 23, 2019, 1:05 pm
OurCrowd, 7thirty set up $30 million fund to invest in cannabis tech
Based in Boulder, Colorado, fund will invest in startups dealing with cannabis technologies in Israel, US and Canada
By Shoshanna Solomon
OurCrowd's Jon Medved speaks at the OurCrowd Global Summit, February 16, 2017 in Jerusalem, (Yosef Adest)
February 1, 2018, 11:51 am
OurCrowd sets up $50 million fund to invest in sports tech
Jerusalem-based equity crowdfunding VC also launches seed-stage incubator for firms developing tech for AI, deep learning, autonomous cars and and smart cities
By Urvashi Verma
Participants at OurCrowd's 2016 Summit (Courtesy)
December 12, 2017, 12:02 pm
OurCrowd to hold international conference in Jerusalem in February
Over 10,000 people expected to register from 80 countries and 250 multinationals
By Shoshanna Solomon
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