# Assaf Karmon

> Assaf Karmon is the Israel-born, Honolulu-based software engineer and MBA who co-founded Turno after the cleaning schedule for his own short-term rental became a recurring mess. He and business-school classmate Tim Roy converted an initially free scheduling tool into a two-sided marketplace used by hosts and cleaning professionals around the world, raising a $4.5 million Series A, becoming an official Airbnb software partner, and growing Turno into a distributed company of more than 150 people.

- **Role:** CEO and Co-founder at Turno
- **Organizations:** Turno, Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship, GoShare, Nokia, Conductor, Community Connect
- **From:** Israel
- **Nationality:** Israeli
- **Education:** B.Sc. in Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, MBA, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Shidler College of Business
- **Known for:** Co-founded and built Turno from a free scheduling tool into a global cleaner marketplace and property-operations platform., Raised a $4.5 million Series A led by RET Ventures in 2021., Named Tech Entrepreneur of the Year with Tim Roy at Hawaii's 2019 Startup Paradise awards.

## Career timeline

- **2008-2010** — Worked as a software engineer at Community Connect in New York.
- **2010-2013** — Worked as a software engineer at Conductor, where colleagues credited him with leading foundational product engineering work.
- **2013-2015** — Worked as a senior software engineer at Nokia in the Boston area.
- **2015-2017** — Served as vice president of engineering at GoShare while completing an MBA at the University of Hawaii.
- **2016** — Developed the idea that became TurnoverBnB with MBA classmate Tim Roy after an earlier micro-cleaning concept failed and Karmon encountered turnover problems as a host.
- **2017** — TurnoverBnB launched; the team placed third in the PACE Business Plan Competition and recorded its first small amount of revenue late that year.
- **2018** — Added the cleaner marketplace model to the original scheduling product.
- **2019** — Karmon and Roy were named Tech Entrepreneurs of the Year at Hawaii's Startup Paradise awards.
- **2021** — TurnoverBnB raised a $4.5 million Series A led by RET Ventures with participation from Blue Startups.
- **2022** — Karmon and Roy received Hawaii's Deal of the Year award; TurnoverBnB also won Pacific Business News' Inno Madness reader competition.
- **2023** — TurnoverBnB rebranded as Turno and became an official Airbnb software partner.
- **2025** — Turno was featured as a 2025 Vacation Rental Cleaning Solution Company of the Year; the company described a globally distributed team of more than 150 people.

## Achievements

- Co-founded and built Turno from a free scheduling tool into a global cleaner marketplace and property-operations platform.
- Raised a $4.5 million Series A led by RET Ventures in 2021.
- Named Tech Entrepreneur of the Year with Tim Roy at Hawaii's 2019 Startup Paradise awards.
- Received Hawaii's 2022 Deal of the Year award with Tim Roy.
- Led Turno into an official Airbnb software partnership in 2023.
- Co-authored a 2009 GECCO paper on genetic programming for Rush Hour puzzle solvers.
- Serves on the board of directors of the Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — PACE lists Karmon on its current board of directors as Turno's CEO and co-founder.
- **2025-03** — Turno was profiled as a 2025 Vacation Rental Cleaning Solution Company of the Year and described continued work on data-driven service and automated maintenance workflows.
- **2023-07** — Turno announced that it had become an official Airbnb software partner.
- **2023-02** — TurnoverBnB shortened its name to Turno to reflect a broader, globally used platform.

## Links

- Website: https://turno.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/assafkarmon
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/assafkar
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karmonassaf/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/assaf.karmon.54

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Last updated: 2026-09-27