OurCrowd's Portfolio RESERVE: Making investing easier by putting the investment process on autopilot
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OurCrowd’s Portfolio RESERVE Making early stage investing easier by putting the process on autopilot
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Join Zack Miller and Danna Mann -- executives at OurCrowd, the leading crowdfunding platform for Israeli startups -- for an introduction to OurCrowd's new product, Portfolio RESERVE. Interested investors can use Portfolio RESERVE to make a one-time investment with minimal paperwork to guarantee you never miss an opportunity. Join us to learn about the Portfolio RESERVE: You decide how much you'd like to invest in OurCrowd companies Get automated allocation to future investment opportunities One time funding, limited paperwork You retain ability to opt-out of any deal You'll also have an opportunity to ask questions about our process and startup investing in general.
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OurCrowd’s Portfolio RESERVE
Making early stage investing easier by putting the process on autopilot
Your hostsDanna Hochstein Mann,
Business Strategies Zack Miller, Investor Community
About meDanna Hochstein Mann,
Business Strategies
• Partner, Head of Investor Relations • Previously Investor Relations and Business
Development at Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP)
• Estee Lauder Companies — Global Marketing
• EMBA, Kellogg Recanati • PresenTense Board of Directors, Chair
Introducing Portfolio RESERVE
an easy, automated way to invest in startups
First, a bit about startup investing
Investing in startups is
hard• 60% of companies survive
until age 3 • picking which companies
thrive and which don’t is really hard…even for professionals
Retu
rn
Risk
Though returns can be higher, startups are risky investments
The importance of portfoliosthe right way to hedge investor risk
The data: good and bad
• While the majority of investments in early-stage companies may not return money…
• …angel portfolios of 10-15 investments return 2.5x over 5 years (Kauffman Institute)
OurCrowd makes it very easy for investors to build angel portfolios
Successful startup investing requires diversification, portfolios
With 2-3 deals per month across sectors and growth phases, OurCrowd was designed for easy portfolio building
Seed round Idea phase
Series C-D rounds POC, revenues
Series A-B rounds R&D, early sales
Diversification across early-stage phases
Diversification across sectors
Introducing Portfolio RESERVE
What is Portfolio RESERVE
• like a mutual fund of startups…
• …but with the ability to opt out
• 1 time paperwork, 1 time funding
• guarantees participation even in very competitive deals
How does Portfolio RESERVE work?
Step 1Select how much you’d like to invest in total and how you’d like that allocated
across deals
Step 2Total investment amount
wired upfront, kept in escrow until its invested
Step 3Automatic enrolment in new deals, 7-day opt-out period, opportunity to increase your investment amount per deal
Why we developed Portfolio RESERVE
–Jon Medved, OurCrowd founder/CEO
“OurCrowd is unbundling venture services”
But some investors…
want help in selecting investments
and want access to oversubscribed deals
OurCrowda better way to invest in Israeli startups
Funding the next generation of successful
startupsSince February 2013,
invested in over 30 startups !
OurCrowd and our community of investors have invested over $30 million in
these firms
Case study #1:a computer vision platform
to test blood faster, cheaper, and more accurately
Case study #2:Software that makes event organizers more money by increasing engagement of
attendees
