Abramovich Foundation has become the main seed round of funding Israeli startup iAngels
According to RBC, the fund Millhouse Capital, owned by Roman Abramovich, invested in Israeli crowdfunding project iAngels. The funds were collected on iAngels' own crowdfunding platform, for the development of which the collected investments will go.
The crowdfunding platform iAngels allows private investors to invest in promising startups at the same time as large business angels.
“Hedge fund owners, fund managers and business angels have confirmed their trust in our model. Nothing can prove this more consistently than raising funds for iAngels on the iAngels platform inviting the participation of the global investor community, ”representatives of iAngels wrote on Facebook.
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Following the seed financing round, iAngels attracted $ 2.25 million from business angels and the Millhouse Capital fund, which became the main investor in the round. The total amount of investments attracted to the company, since its inception, amounted to $ 2.6 million.
iAngels has become the 15th company that has successfully attracted funding on its own platform.
IAngels founding partner Shelly Hod Moyal said: “We are confident that elite business angels will help finance a promising business. We have structured our business model in such a way as to take the risk equal to the risk of investors investing in Israeli startups using the iAngels platform. ”
IAngels was founded in 2014, but has already conducted successful fundraising campaigns for such promising start-ups as TravelersBox , Hello Doctor, Webyclip , Nanorep , Drippler and Biscience . During these campaigns, several hundred thousand dollars were raised.
For the Abramovich Foundation, this was not the first investment in Israeli companies. In the summer of 2014, the fund invested in AcousticEye Inc, a manufacturer and developer of an innovative method for non-destructive testing and diagnosis of heat exchanger tubes at factories and plants. At about the same time, the foundation invested $ 10 million in a startup StoreDot, which produces electronic devices based on bio-organic materials.
The crowdfunding platform iAngels allows private investors to invest in promising startups at the same time as large business angels.
“Hedge fund owners, fund managers and business angels have confirmed their trust in our model. Nothing can prove this more consistently than raising funds for iAngels on the iAngels platform inviting the participation of the global investor community, ”representatives of iAngels wrote on Facebook.
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Following the seed financing round, iAngels attracted $ 2.25 million from business angels and the Millhouse Capital fund, which became the main investor in the round. The total amount of investments attracted to the company, since its inception, amounted to $ 2.6 million.
iAngels has become the 15th company that has successfully attracted funding on its own platform.
IAngels founding partner Shelly Hod Moyal said: “We are confident that elite business angels will help finance a promising business. We have structured our business model in such a way as to take the risk equal to the risk of investors investing in Israeli startups using the iAngels platform. ”
IAngels was founded in 2014, but has already conducted successful fundraising campaigns for such promising start-ups as TravelersBox , Hello Doctor, Webyclip , Nanorep , Drippler and Biscience . During these campaigns, several hundred thousand dollars were raised.
For the Abramovich Foundation, this was not the first investment in Israeli companies. In the summer of 2014, the fund invested in AcousticEye Inc, a manufacturer and developer of an innovative method for non-destructive testing and diagnosis of heat exchanger tubes at factories and plants. At about the same time, the foundation invested $ 10 million in a startup StoreDot, which produces electronic devices based on bio-organic materials.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/287048/
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