Huge Crowd: OurCrowd Investor Summit Draws 6K

| February 16, 2017 | OurCrowd, a leading equity crowdfunding platform, made history today by hosting the biggest investment event in Israel, the 2017 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit. Some 6,000 guests from 82 countries, including startups, venture capitalists and strategic investors, attended the event at the Jerusalem International Convention Center. Also in attendance were over 200 multinational corporations including Honda, Innogy, GE, Shell, Intuit, Microsoft, and Samsung Ventures. The theme of the summit was “The Future is Here” and it included over 60 booths demonstrating a variety of frontier technologies already changing the world, including industrial drones, companion care robots, miniature spectrometers to “google” everything, tracking devices with centimeter accuracy, phone based glucose monitors, and much more. “This is by far the largest equity crowdfunding conference in the world, and Israel’s largest investor event ever,” Jon Medved, OurCrowd founder and CEO said in a statement. “We have twice the number of attendees that we had last year, giving proof to the tremendous vitality and dynamism in the global equity crowdfunding market.”