Jon Medved

Overview

Jonathan Medved is a serial entrepreneur and according to the Washington Post One of Israel s leading high tech venture capitalists . NY Times Supplement Israel at 60 named Medved as one of the Top 10 most influential Americans who have impacted Israel and he was also named as one of the 50 most influential Jews by Jerusalem Post. Medved currently is the founder and CEO of OurCrowd the leading Global Equity Crowdfunding platform for accredited investors and angels. OurCrowd is One of the largest crowdfunding organizations on the planet according to Forbes having raised over $300M for over 100 portfolio companies since its launch in February 2013. According to Bloomberg Business week OurCrowd is hands down the most successful equity crowdfunding platform in the world. Medved has been both an entrepreneur and investor He has been part of the founding teams at several successful Israeli startups and as a venture and angel investor over the past two decades he invested in almost 200 startup companies helping to bring 20 of them to values in excess of $100M. Between 2006 2012 Medved was the co founder and CEO of Vringo a leader in mobile social applications which went public in June 2010. Before founding Vringo Medved was the founder and General Partner of Israel Seed Partners one of Israel's leading venture capital funds. Israel Seed had $262M under management in four funds and has been an investor in 60 leading Israeli companies. Exits include Shopping.com (acquired by Ebay) Compugen (Nasdaq CGEN) Answers.com (Nasdaq ANSW acquired by Summit) Cyota (acquired by RSA/CA) Finjan (Nasdaq FNJN ) Mobile Access (acquired by Corning) Tradeum (acquired by VerticalNet) Native Networks (acquired by Alcatel) Broadlight (acquired by Broadcom) Xacct (acquired by Amdocs) Business Layers (acquired by CA) Xtellus (acquired by Oclaro) and Digital Fuel (acquired by VMWare). Prior to Israel Seed Medved was a founder and Executive Vice President of Marketing and Sales at MERET Optical Communications Inc. MERET was acquired by the Amoco Corporation. Medved then came to Israel where he was part of the founding management team at Accent Software which was later acquired by L&H/Microsoft. Jon lives in Jerusalem with his wife Jane and his four children and six grandchildren where he collects rare single malts and loud Hawaiian shirts.