# Alon Chen

> Alon Chen is the New York-based CEO and co-founder of Tastewise, an AI intelligence and execution platform for the food and beverage industry. A self-taught programmer who began coding at 12, he spent roughly eight years at Google, where he helped build the Google Partners program and served as CMO for Israel and Greece, before moving through Voyager Labs and founding Tastewise with Eyal Gaon in 2017. The company grew from a family-dinner insight about rapidly changing food preferences into an enterprise platform used by global food brands, and announced a $50 million Series B in June 2025.

- **Role:** CEO and Co-Founder at Tastewise
- **Organizations:** Tastewise, Google, Voyager Labs, Or Yarok, IGLYO, Tel Aviv Municipality Advisory Board
- **Nationality:** Israeli
- **Education:** BA in Economics, Tel Aviv University, MBA, University College Dublin, Master's in Law, Bar-Ilan University
- **Known for:** Built and launched Google's partner channel program across 27 markets, onboarding 60,000 partners according to his published speaker biography., Served as Google's CMO for Israel and Greece and led Google's relationship with the World Economic Forum., Co-founded Tastewise with Eyal Gaon in 2017.

## Career timeline

- **Age 12** — Began teaching himself to program.
- **Age 15** — Started a small business building and selling computers.
- **2004-2006** — Worked as a product manager at road-safety nonprofit Or Yarok while studying economics at Tel Aviv University.
- **2007** — Joined Google in Dublin, initially working on Hebrew search quality; also helped secure Google's sponsorship of Dublin Pride.
- **2007-2015** — Advanced through Google marketing leadership, launched the Google Partners channel program across 27 markets, served as CMO for Israel and Greece, and led the company's World Economic Forum relationship.
- **2015-2017** — Served as Chief Business Officer at Voyager Labs and developed its AI marketing-tech and e-commerce business.
- **2017** — Co-founded Tastewise with Eyal Gaon.
- **2019** — Tastewise emerged publicly with an AI platform analyzing menus, recipes and social signals to identify food demand and trends.
- **2022** — Tastewise announced a $17 million Series A led by Disruptive.
- **2023** — Tastewise introduced TasteGPT and joined the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers cohort.
- **2025** — Tastewise announced a $50 million Series B led by TELUS Global Ventures, bringing company-reported total funding to $72 million.
- **2026** — Chen presented Tastewise's shift toward agentic intelligence for food and beverage leaders, including an IFT FIRST closing keynote.

## Achievements

- Built and launched Google's partner channel program across 27 markets, onboarding 60,000 partners according to his published speaker biography.
- Served as Google's CMO for Israel and Greece and led Google's relationship with the World Economic Forum.
- Co-founded Tastewise with Eyal Gaon in 2017.
- Led Tastewise through a $17 million Series A in 2022 and a $50 million Series B in 2025.
- Helped develop Tastewise from predictive food analytics into a generative and agentic AI platform used by major food and beverage companies.
- Tastewise was selected for the World Economic Forum's 2023 Technology Pioneers cohort.
- Advocated publicly for LGBTQ inclusion and helped secure Google's sponsorship of Dublin Pride during his first year at the company.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Delivered an IFT FIRST closing keynote on designing with agentic intelligence and moving food innovation from early signals to commercialization.
- **2026-06** — Opened Tastewise's Chicago Growth Summit with a presentation on agentic systems and the changing role of food-industry teams.
- **2026-05** — Hosted an executive briefing on the agentic era of food and beverage.
- **2025-12** — Appeared on TD Cowen Insights to discuss how generative AI can accelerate product development and marketing for major food companies.
- **2025-08** — Joined VentureFuel Visionaries to discuss Tastewise's Series B, build-versus-buy decisions in AI, and a client case involving air-fried vegetables.
- **2025-06** — Announced Tastewise's $50 million Series B led by TELUS Global Ventures.

## Links

- Website: https://tastewise.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alonchen
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/tastewiseai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tastewise3587
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tastewise.ai/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tastewiseAI/

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Last updated: 2026-08-10