OurCrowd eyes Asia expansion via S'pore office

Singapore

THE pace of capital raising among Asian investors is hotting up for equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd. But Asia's representation among the portfolio companies is "almost non-existent", says OurCrowd chief executive Jon Medved.

That is set to change. Israel-based OurCrowd has opened a Singapore office that is expected to expand the platform on three fronts - the facilitation of capital raising; sourcing of portfolio companies in Asia; and helping investee companies with their Asian expansion.

"We're in the process of trying to do our first deals in Singapore," he said. Since i…