Episode 12: Jon Medved, high-tech entrepreneur - a podcast by Our Friend From Israel

High-tech entrepreneur Jon Medved is one of Israel's leading high-tech venture capitalists. He's the founder and CEO of OurCrowd, a company that has invested in more than 100 Israeli startups. What makes OurCrowd unique is that it's made up of 25,000 members from around the world, who all pool their resources together to fund these startups. They have 10 offices around the globe, from Tel Aviv to Toronto, and from San Diego to Singapore. Forbes called OurCrowd one of the largest crowd-funding organizations on the planet. To date, they've raised nearly a billion dollars.

"We are risk takers here," Medved told us. "We're also delusional; have been since Abraham. I think that combination of risk, acceptance, and delusion makes for great entrepreneurial excitement." On this week's episode, we sit down with Jon Medved in his Jerusalem office to discuss his career, his favorite startups and why Israel is such a fertile place for launching a high-tech company.

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