Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israel focused equity crowdfunding website”. Today it says “online global venture investing platform that empowers institutions and individual accredited investors to inve”.
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The opening as it read in October 6, 2023
OurCrowd is an online global venture investing platform that empowers institutions and individual accredited investors to invest and engage in emerging technology companies at an early stage while still privately held. Based in Jerusalem , the company launched in February 2013, and has since opened overseas branches in the United States , the United Kingdom , Canada , Australia , Spain , Singapore , Brazil , and the UAE . As of November 2022, OurCrowd has over 200,000 registered members and has received over $2 billion in commitments. OurCrowd uses equity crowdfunding as its model. In equity crowdfunding, investments into a company's shares are pooled together from the crowd. OurCrowd allows each investor to choose the individual companies in which to invest. Investing in OurCrowd is available only to accredited investors, allowing them to choose in which portfolio companies and funds to co-invest in with a minimum of $10,000 in companies or $50,000 in funds. Our Crowd requires its Israeli portfolio companies to donate a portion of their equity to charity as part of the closing of any funding round. Pitchbook has rated OurCrowd "Israel's most active VC fund" for the tenth consecutive year. OurCrowd invests its capital in all the companies and venture funds offered on its platform, and extends the opportunity to invest to its accredited membership on the same terms. As of November 2022, OurCrowd has had over 60 exits, including stock market listings like Beyond Meat, Lemonade, Innoviz and Hub Security. In addition to the exits, there were high-profile acquisitions including CyberX by Microsoft. "The 10 most active Israeli VCs" . 6 May 2022 . "Microsoft confirms acquisition of CyberX to boost security in its Azure IoT business" . tech crunch . 22 June 2022 .
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The opening as it stood in 2015
OurCrowd is an Israel focused equity crowdfunding website. Minimum investments is $10,000 per deal for accredited international investors.
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OurCrowd is an investment platform built for accredited investors and institutions to invest in startups and venture funds .Based in Jerusalem , the company launched in February 2013, with overseas branches in the United States , Canada , Australia , Singapore , and Hong Kong .Unlike crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo which crowdfund donations to projects typically in return for some type of reward or gift, OurCrowd uses equity crowdfunding as its model.In equity crowdfunding, investments into a company's shares are pooled together from the crowd.Although recent regulatory changes make crowdfunding available to all investors, at this point, OurCrowd is only available to accredited investors.OurCrowd requires its Israeli portfolio companies to donate a portion of their equity to charity as part of the closing of any funding round.Pitchbook has rated OurCrowd "Israel's most active VC fund." OurCrowd invests its capital in all the companies and venture funds offered on its platform, and extends the opportunity to invest to its accredited membership on the same terms.
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Investment platform based in Jerusalem OurCrowd is an online global venture investing platform that empowers institutions and individual accredited investors to invest and engage in emerging technology companies at an early stage while still privately held. Based in Jerusalem , the company launched in February 2013, and has since opened overseas branches in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Spain, Singapore, Brazil, and the UAE. As of November 2022, OurCrowd has over 200,000 registered members and has received over US$ 2 billion in commitments. OurCrowd uses equity crowdfunding as its model. In equity crowdfunding, investments into a company's shares are pooled together from the crowd. OurCrowd allows each investor to choose the individual companies in which to invest. Investing in OurCrowd is available only to accredited investors, allowing them to choose in which portfolio companies and funds to co-invest in with a minimum of $10,000 in companies or $50,000 in funds. Our Crowd requires its Israeli portfolio companies to donate a portion of their equity to charity as part of the closing of any funding round. Pitchbook has rated OurCrowd "Israel's most active VC fund" for the tenth consecutive year. OurCrowd invests its capital in all the companies and venture funds offered on its platform, and extends the opportunity to invest to its accredited membership on the same terms. As of November 2022, OurCrowd has had over 60 exits, including stock market listings like Beyond Meat, Lemonade, Innoviz and Hub Security. In addition to the exits, there were high-profile acquisitions including CyberX by Microsoft. "The 10 most active Israeli VCs" . 6 May 2022 . "Microsoft confirms acquisition of CyberX to boost security in its Azure IoT business" . tech crunch . 22 June 2022 .
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israel focused equity crowdfunding website
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online global venture investing platform that empowers institutions and individual accredited investors to inve
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