OurCrowd

Founded in 2013, Israel’s OurCrowd combines equity crowdfunding with its collaborative recruiting platform. Helmed by serial entrepreneur Jon Medved, OurCrowd provides new individual investors with the access normally allotted just to venture capitalists and institutional investors. With OurCrowd, new investors are able to view vetted startups that are ripe for investment, and then make financial decisions through the website’s online investment tools. It also has put together a portfolio of large, multinational companies to which it provides its OurNetwork platform. The service encourages big companies including Google, Honda, and Capital One to collaborate with and invest in small startups, bringing together a wide range of investors, VCs, institutions, and entrepreneurs.