# Gilad Tal

> Gilad Tal is co-founder and CEO of DualBird, a Boston-based deep tech startup rebuilding the foundation of analytics and AI data infrastructure by running silicon acceleration as cloud-native software. A Technion-trained electrical engineer and physicist with 14 years in ASIC and software development, he previously founded and led TerrainEDA, an EDA startup acquired by Synopsys. At DualBird he and his co-founders use rewritable FPGA hardware to plug into Apache Spark and Iceberg environments, claiming up to 100x faster performance and up to 90% lower cost with no changes to existing workflows.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at DualBird
- **Organizations:** DualBird, TerrainEDA, Synopsys, Habana Labs, EZchip
- **Nationality:** Israeli
- **Education:** B.Sc. Electrical Engineering & Physics (summa cum laude), Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Co-founded DualBird and helped raise roughly $25M in combined seed and Series A funding from Lightspeed, Bessemer, Angular Ventures, and Uncork Capital, Founded TerrainEDA and led it to acquisition by Synopsys, Graduated summa cum laude in Electrical Engineering & Physics from the Technion

## Career timeline

- **2016** — Co-founded and became CEO of TerrainEDA, an electronic design automation startup
- **—** — Roles in ASIC and software development at EZchip and Habana Labs
- **—** — TerrainEDA acquired by Synopsys; continued at Synopsys
- **2021** — Co-founded DualBird as CTO alongside Amir Gilad, Ehud Eliaz, and Ohad Gamliel
- **2025** — DualBird raised $25M combined seed and Series A ($17M Series A led by Lightspeed)
- **2025** — Stepped into the CEO role at DualBird following co-founder Amir Gilad's passing

## Achievements

- Co-founded DualBird and helped raise roughly $25M in combined seed and Series A funding from Lightspeed, Bessemer, Angular Ventures, and Uncork Capital
- Founded TerrainEDA and led it to acquisition by Synopsys
- Graduated summa cum laude in Electrical Engineering & Physics from the Technion
- Built a technology claiming up to 100x performance gains and up to 90% cost reduction for data workloads
- 14 years of ASIC and software development across high-performance networking, compute, AI acceleration, and EDA

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — DualBird announced $25M in combined seed and Series A funding, with a $17M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
- **2026-01** — DualBird targeting general availability of its data processing engine in early 2026.

## Links

- Website: https://dualbird.io
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gilad-tal

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