Dror Har’s next idea already has a team

In August 2016, Dror Har had a growth story to tell. Visiting technology publisher Peli Hanamer with his colleague Dr. Liran Edelist, he described an analytics business that had expanded from 20 employees at the beginning of 2010 to more than 100. Actiview, the company he led, had also bought specialist businesses along the way. Now it had joined Yael Group. Har had experienced the peculiar arithmetic of an acquisition from both directions.

That earlier chapter matters when looking at the business he founded five years later. Globaldev Group would grow by bringing established engineering companies into a larger organization. The teams arrived with their own experience, customers, managers, and habits. A founding date can make a company look young. The people inside it may have been doing the work for years.

Har’s career offers a way into that distinction. It follows an executive from analytics and financial systems into a group of software businesses, then into partnerships built around AI and investor services. The recurring question is practical: how do you put useful expertise within reach of someone who needs it?

A working education in decisions

His earlier roles included BI and CRM practice leadership at IBM, followed by chief executive positions at G-STAT and Clal Consumer Credit. Those names place him around business intelligence, customer relationships, and finance well before Globaldev. By 2013 he was leading Actiview, whose leadership also included IBM Global Services alumni Shahar Alvas and Benny Shariki. The company was recruiting as demand grew for analytics and data management.

One Actiview assignment carried the problem into government. The company implemented the Numerator budgeting system for Israel’s Ministry of Finance using Jedox technology. Its purpose was concrete: a proposed expenditure had to be matched with an expected revenue source. A deficit alert required planners to identify the funding. Here was software asked to make a difficult conversation happen before a commitment became somebody else’s headache.

In December 2017, Actiview announced plans to recruit 50 people during the following year, on top of a workforce of 130. Har described growing demand from marketing and finance departments, including finance teams moving from extensive spreadsheet work toward integrated planning. His subjects included business processes, real-time decisions, and early enterprise use of machine learning. The vocabulary has since become more fashionable; the underlying work was already on his desk.

When Yael acquired Actiview in July 2016, the entire team, including management, was to continue. Actiview had around 100 employees, and its work ranged from data warehouses and reporting to financial planning and marketing automation. The transaction preserved a functioning business inside a broader organization. Years later, the independent-unit arrangements announced for Steelkiwi and WorkNest would make that earlier episode particularly relevant to Har’s career.

By April 2019, Har was heading Yael Group’s new finance and analytics solutions division, bringing Actiview, Tulip, and related activities together. It was another exercise in organizing specialists around a set of customer problems. Before he founded a group, he had considerable experience of how one was put together.

The first team came with eleven years

Globaldev Group took shape in 2021. Its June announcement introduced X1 as its first portfolio company and Har as founder and CEO. X1 was incorporated in Berlin and had a development hub in Kharkiv. It had been supplying software teams to technology companies in Europe and the United States for more than eleven years.

The founding announcement also described two routes to expansion: growing existing operations and bringing other businesses into the group. That combination gave Globaldev room to develop capabilities internally while adding teams that had already built them. It is a more demanding undertaking than collecting company names: each addition introduces work already in progress and customers already expecting it to continue.

The new group therefore began with an established operating business. Valeriy Bykanov, X1’s founder and CEO, brought a team and customer relationships into the combination. Har emphasized the ability to help clients expand their engineering capacity. Bykanov described a chance to grow the team and reach more clients. The ambitions met at a recognizable place: more work for people who already knew how to do it.

“X1 Group is the perfect partner we have been looking for”

Dror Har · June 2021

Skywell followed that December. Based in Kyiv, it added e-commerce and web development experience, particularly in retail. Kharkiv and Kyiv became distinct parts of the same group. The combination also gives a useful answer to an otherwise vague word such as growth: this time it meant another team, another city, and another area of experience.

The promises inside the deal

In October 2022, Steelkiwi joined with more than 100 professionals and a full-cycle web and mobile development business. The arrangement called for it to operate as an independent business unit. Har singled out the partners behind it, Anton Baterikov and Slava Ponomarov. Their company had its own eleven-year history. Adding it meant making room for experience accumulated before Globaldev existed.

The timing also mattered. Har reaffirmed his belief in Ukraine’s IT community as Russia’s invasion continued. Globaldev’s later purchases kept that commitment visible. WorkNest joined in September 2023, adding software development and data annotation, with an independent business-unit arrangement of its own. Its arrival also extended the group’s presence in Kyiv and Warsaw.

By April 2025, the IDAP acquisition announcement described Globaldev’s third investment in Ukraine since February 2022. IDAP strengthened mobile development alongside the group’s web, data, and AI work. Its CEO, Alex Chernikov, spoke about handing the business he had built into the group’s care. An acquisition announcement usually has a great deal to say about opportunity. That handover gives the word a human scale.

These transactions have an organizational question tucked inside them. When experienced teams join, the combined business must give customers a reason to value the arrangement. A longer list of companies supplies plenty of material for a presentation. The practical value depends on what those people can build together.

Hanoi makes global literal

The map widened in August 2024, when Preezma joined and established a development hub in Yerevan. Har welcomed the opportunity to connect Armenian developers with customers worldwide. Preezma’s CEO, Hamayak Harutyunov, was bringing an existing business into what became Globaldev Armenia. Another local history entered the larger company.

In September 2025, Globaldev announced the acquisition of Investidea and the establishment of Globaldev Vietnam in Hanoi. Phillip Bui had founded Investidea in 2018. Its customer base stretched across Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam. For Har, the deal combined access to regional customers with a development base in Vietnam. Geography had a commercial purpose on both sides of the relationship.

Har visited Vietnam the following month. The photographs show him speaking into a microphone and standing with the local team. The group photograph is crowded, cheerful, and considerably more informative than a pin on a map. There are actual people occupying the new location.

A conversation, then the paperwork

By July 2026, another kind of connection had become part of the story. Globaldev announced that it had joined the Claude Partner Network. The initiative began with a conversation Har had at an industry conference about Anthropic’s partner ecosystem.

Then the work acquired another owner. Ihor Kravchenko, Globaldev’s AI Strategy Specialist and BA Department Lead, researched the program, examined its requirements, and prepared a roadmap. The application covered the company’s clients, specialties, and use of Claude. Globaldev entered at the Registered tier.

It is a useful small episode because the responsibilities remain visible. Har encountered the opportunity; a colleague worked through the details. The sequence gives some texture to a founder’s job in a company full of specialists. Sometimes leadership involves identifying a possibility and making sure somebody with the right knowledge can carry it forward.

An invoice meets its critic

Two months earlier, Globaldev had joined TechMiners, scaleon, MVP Factory, theAI.studio, and Radial to launch Modular Alpha. The six founding firms proposed a network of specialists for venture capital and private equity investors, covering work from due diligence through ownership to exit.

Clients could engage a particular specialty or combine several. The proposition included advice without cross-selling mandates between the partners and a focus on agreed outcomes. Har’s public statement was pointed about consulting incentives. He wanted engagements judged by what they achieved.

“Every engagement in this network is accountable to outcomes”

Dror Har · Modular Alpha launch, May 2026

That is the network’s stated promise, with delivery still the thing clients must assess. It also connects neatly with the earlier career. The executive who once discussed planning systems for finance departments was now asking how specialist work should be bought and evaluated. The subject had changed; the concern with a useful business result remained recognizable.

The next chapter has colleagues

There is a quieter assessment of Har in a public recommendation from Edwin Matlapeng, who praised his calm under pressure and its effect on the team. It is a colleague’s view, and a revealing counterpoint to the movement in his business history: purchases, new locations, new partners, another set of people learning to work together.

Har’s public story has plenty of company names. The more interesting continuity is the experience already present in each business before it joins the next one. Actiview had acquired specialists before Yael acquired Actiview. Globaldev began with X1’s established team and continued to add businesses with their own founders and customers.

For an executive who has built a career around combinations, the next beginning keeps arriving with a past. There are people attached to it. They know things. Making those things useful together is a job substantial enough to occupy the next chapter.