Wes is an inventor with 20 granted US patents on cellphones. He holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from CalTech, and did a postdoc at Los Alamos under George Zweig, the co-discoverer of quarks. Wes co-founded Metaswarm for antispam, and Linket with 13 patents on branding. He attended Burning Man from 1992 - 1999.
Lynn is the Founder and CEO of Pivt, the company social app designed to reduce turnover and improve the well-being of relocated, remote, and transient employees. Pivt was born out of Lynn's own frustration after relocating to London (a few weeks after graduating from F & M) to work for Bloomberg and not knowing where to start to make her new city feel like home. Prior, Lynn worked at Bloomberg LP in London and then as a Senior Associate at Autonomy Ventures, where she procured startup deal-f...
Assaf Gil is one of Israel's veteran and most successful television producers. In the course of his 30 years in the TV industry, Gil has consistently produced Israel's highest-rated shows on commercial television as well as created various television formats for the local and international television markets.
Tal leads the F2 Venture Capital investment team, managing all aspects of the fund's deal flow with a focus on deal sourcing, due diligence, and value creation. Prior to F2, Tal operated as the General Manager at The Junction and was recognized as one of the 30Under30 by Forbes Magazine. Tal is on the board of Combat Ventures, a non-profit organization assisting IDF veterans' integration into the Israeli startup ecosystem. Previously, Tal served as a Captain in the Israeli Special Forces. Tal ho...
Rachel is a food and pharma expert, with proven success in bringing new products and breaking-through innovations to fruition in leading companies in highly competitive industries as V.P. Marketing at Teva pharmaceuticals, Business Manager at Nestle and Marketing Manager at Strauss group. She is a Grand EFFI Winner, holds B.A. in Psychology & Communication from Tel-Aviv University, and MBA (with honor) from ESG in France.
Oren Dobronsky is an entrepreneur by heart turned into an accomplished angel investor. Oren lives with his wife and two kids in the Silicon Valley and is mostly known as the founder of Oren's Hummus, a local, very famous Israeli restaurant chain. In 2020 Oren and his family moved to Israel for a gap year and were shocked to discover the level of poverty in rural Israel, especially after COVID’s impact on families with young children. Oren is determined to help these families through ClearGiving....
Avi Eyal is co-founder of and managing partner of Entree Capital, a firm with operations in the U.S., U.K., and Israel that manages more than $500 million in assets across 90 portfolio companies. Portfolio startups include Riskified, which raised $165 million in November 2019, and monday.com, an Israel-based work software company that reportedly reached a valuation of $3 billion in 2020, and where Eyal sits on the board. He's also an investor in Cazoo, Glovo, Stash, and Rapyd. Avi is a third tim...
Lior is the founder & CEO of Openbase, a Y Combinator company that helps developers choose among millions of open-source projects. He previously founded Wikiwand and BookAuthority, both profitable businesses that are used by millions of people. Born and raised in Israel, Lior has been programming since the age of 10, got his first job at Scitex at the age of 16 while in high school, joined the Israel Intelligence Corps (Unit 8200) at the age of 18, and started his first business (a software ...
Rachel Trobman is the CEO of Upside Health, leading the team on business development, strategy and clinical relationships. The company is based on Rachel's personal experience with chronic pain and has worked with more than 15,000 patients and hundreds of clinicians to expand access to chronic pain care. Rachel has nearly two decades of experience building digital products and experiences for Fortune 500 companies and media enterprises including, but not limited to, P&G, Yahoo!, NBC and the ...
Zvi is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience turning novel ideas into successful businesses. As founder and CEO of CloudShare, he started a Sequoia Capital company that provides a public cloud service for software development and testing to over 200,000 subscribers. Prior to CloudShare, he founded and served as CTO of Safend, an endpoint security solution that was acquired by NASDAQ: WAVX.
Mike Cassidy is the CEO of Apollo Fusion, Inc. Mike Cassidy was recently a Vice President at Google. He was the Project Leader of GoogleX’s Project Loon (balloon-powered Internet for everyone). Prior to joining Google, Mike was the Co-Founder and CEO of four start-ups: Ruba, Xfire, Direct Hit, and Stylus Innovation. Mike has a BS/MS in Aerospace Engineering from MIT. He graduated from Harvard Business School. He studied jazz piano at Berklee College of Music..
Arod is a Manager at Deloitte Catalyst, Deloitte Israel's startup practice, focusing on Life Sciences and Healthcare innovation. He also is the co-founder of Wize, one of Israel's largest content platforms, a board member of the 8200 Alumni Association, where he leads the digital transformation project and several other initiatives, and a board member of ISOC-IL, the Israeli Internet Association. Arod is passionate about climate change, an avid reader and a lawyer by training.
Tess is a Principal at GSV Ventures, an early-stage venture fund focused on education technology. Tess spent time at Pluralsight on their strategy team, was a top sales executive at Andela (start-up transforming talent across Africa), and the Head of Talent at Timehop. Tess holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA in International Relations/Economics from New York University. Tess was a Teaching Assistant at Stanford GSB for “Diverse Leadership in Education.” She serves on the Advisory Board for Girl...
Peter Fishman is the co-founder and CEO of Mozart Data (YCS20), the easiest way to spin up a modern data stack. Previously, he was the Chief Strategy Officer at Eaze, a cannabis technology platform. He has also worked at fast-growing startups including Opendoor, Zenefits, Yammer/Microsoft, Playdom/Disney. He also has been involved with sports analytics at the Philadelphia Eagles and has run a hot sauce company, Bacon Hot Sauce. He holds a B.S. from Duke University and a Ph.D. in economics from U...
Spandana is the Founder & CEO of ZoEasy, an award-winning social enterprise in the MENA Region that focuses on educating and matching migrant blue-collar job seekers to the right employment opportunities using ethical and transparent hiring. She is also the Vice Curator of Global Shapers Dubai, World Economic Forum, where she helps lead the Hub in relation to the WEF's key pillars and has also contributed to many of the hub's education and employment initiatives. Spandana is a Forbes 30 Unde...
Nuri Golan is a serial entrepreneur and Angel investor. Nuri was the CEO and Co-Founder of the GPS technology startup EXO Technologies which he sold to Lear Corporation, a Fortune 150 company. At Lear, Nuri became the Managing Director of Lear Innovation Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Lear. Currently, Nuri is the CEO of Sosivio, a next-gen observability platform for Cloud Native environments. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Nuri served 6 years in the Israeli Navy Seals as a combat off...
Orlie began her path in the industry through her time in the Air Force, where she was recruited to operate a private aviation fleet, then moved on to complete her BA in Business Management at IDC. She became the first female entrepreneur in the community she leads today by founding Blitz Motors, a two-wheeled electric vehicle company. Orlie is the current acting Executive Director at EcoMotion and is the founder of Women in Mobility, a community that aims to grow the number of women in the field...
Ivan is the Chief Development Officer at STV, largest venture capital fund in the Middle East and North Africa region with more than $500M in assets under management. At STV, Ivan is leading portfolio support and value creation, helping STV portfolio companies address key challenges to scale, such as talent, marketing & growth, business development and strategy. Before joining STV, Ivan was Regional Lead for new markets at Google MENA and Principal at Booz & Company, consultants. Ivan ho...
After founding the first Formula SAE team in Israel (2011), I spent 6 months in Italy working at Dallara - the world's best race car manufacturer. Returning to Israel (2012), I decided to establish a company that will focus on making Motorsport more accessible and affordable, using new technologies and solutions yet to be implemented in the industry. We started by addressing the needs of the driver and developed the G1- a race car that combines extreme performance with affordability, but our tru...
Jennifer Richard is a Principal at Bonfire Ventures. Prior to Bonfire, Jen sourced and executed seed-stage investments at Vitalize VC and Cross Culture Ventures. Before beginning her career in venture, Jen was a founding member of three venture-backed startups and saw two of them through successful acquisitions. She has been responsible for building e-commerce platforms from the ground up and has scaled online commerce to reach over 30 countries worldwide. She has a BA from Emory University and ...
Francis leads a team of 300 people and has raised $6M in capital to build Invisible, a disruptive work-automation company that provides custom operations support to scaling businesses. Previously, Francis raised $2.6M from top investors to build Everest, a social network based on “what you do” not “who you know.” He worked briefly in consulting and at Google after studying history at Cornell. People who’ve worked with Francis say his strategy comes from “clear, deep thinking,” that he excels at ...
Carine Carmy is Co-Founder and CEO at Origin, a physical therapy designed for women and mothers. With over 40M women experiencing incredibly common but overlooked health issues from pelvic pain to postpartum recovery, Origin is clinically proven to have life-changing results, helping women build strength and avoid countless unnecessary surgeries. Prior to Origin, Carine has spent her career as a go-to-market leader in healthcare and technology, including at Amino, Shapeways, MarketspaceNext, and...
George's career spans over 28 years, as a journalist turned PR (agency and in-house) in the public and private sectors. His primary work is within the United Kingdom, Greece, Cyprus and UAE (Dubai & Abu Dhabi). During the last two years, he has developed a passion for the international tech startup ecosystem, working with entrepreneurs and investors in the UAE and Greece to help them achieve their communications objectives. George is an expert in message development, PR content creation, med...
Yael Gilboa Kaufmann is Co-founder & COO of Learn In, the first comprehensive upskilling-as-a-service platform helping companies solve for every barrier that stands between them and the future of work. She is an investor turned operator and lifelong learner who believes that learning neither begins nor ends with a degree. Yael began her career as an investor in private equity and was an impact investor and fintech entrepreneur prior to co-founding Learn In. Yael earned her MBA from Harvard...
Sleem Hasan is an experienced owner with a demonstrated history of working in venture capital and the Japanese capital markets. He is skilled in investor relations, securities, asset management, investment advisory, and working with technology entrepreneurs. His strong entrepreneur professionalism is with a Part III Mathematical Tripos from Cambridge University and an M.A.(Hons) degree in Mathematics from Oxford University. He’s also the CEO and Founder of Privity, which is an independent Dubai-...
Michal is the VP of Product at Hero Health, aiming to help people manage their health better, and live their lives to the fullest. She is passionate about solving hard problems that make a difference in people’s lives, and in a career of over 15 years, led UX and product across Google, Verily Life Sciences, Zoox, modu and more. She authored the book "Designing Multi-Device Experiences" (O'Reilly Media) and several other publications, mentored dozens of startups, and spoke at local and global con...
Oren is the Founder and CEO of Testim.io. He has over 20 years of experience in tech, focusing on products for developers at IBM, Wix, Cadence, Applitools, and now Testim.io. In addition to being a busy entrepreneur, Oren is a community activist, the co-organizer of several meetups and conferences, mentored at the Google Launchpad Accelerator, and taught at Technion University.
Oron Afek is the co-founder and CEO of Vim (www.getvim.com) - improving the performance of healthcare networks in the US. Prior to starting Vim, Oron started a telecommunication startup and a gaming company, operating out of Tel Aviv, Israel. Oron received his law and business degrees from IDC Herzliya.
As the Chief Commercial Officer of Gett (previously Get-Taxi), Keren is leading several revenue streams within the company, including Gett's international b2b division. Prior to this role, Keren established two startups within the company ("startups within a startup") and grew them from nearly a concept into fully profitable business units. Keren began her career in R&D and spent several years as a Product Manager and Technical Project Manager, liaising between technology departments and lea...
Noam's first UX role was in the military industries, where he was the UX lead for several of Israel's missile-defense systems. He attended a liberal arts college in Israel, studying Psychology and Media, before moving to the US to get his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since then, Noam has worked at Airbnb, Intercom, and these days Wealthfront in UX research roles. He's currently the Director of User Research at Wealthfront, a Fintech company. In additio...
