# Idan Bar-Dov

> Idan Bar-Dov is the co-founder and CEO of Heka Global, a New York and Tel Aviv company that turns the public web into real-time, audit-ready digital identities for banks, insurers, and pension funds. A fintech lawyer turned operator, he started Heka during the pandemic to reconnect people with lost financial assets and grew it into a fraud-fighting web-intelligence engine used by institutions like Barclays and Pictet. In July 2025 Heka closed a $14M Series A led by Windare Ventures, with Bar-Dov arguing that the credit bureaus built for a paper era cannot see a world where both consumers and risk now live online.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Heka Global
- **Organizations:** Heka Global, Pearl Cohen, ARNON, Reichman University (IDC Herzliya)
- **Nationality:** Israeli
- **Education:** Bachelor of Laws (LLB), Reichman University (IDC Herzliya), MBA (Technology), Cornell University
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Heka Global, scaling it from a consumer asset-recovery idea into a global web-intelligence platform for financial institutions, Closed a $14M Series A in July 2025 led by Windare Ventures with participation from Barclays and Cornar Banca, Won deployments with major institutions including Barclays, Pictet Group, Clal Insurance, and ZEDRA

## Career timeline

- **Pre-2020** — Worked as a fintech and high-tech lawyer at international firms including Pearl Cohen and ARNON, advising fintech companies
- **Pre-2020** — Founded the Gladstone-Nir Legal Clinic for Start-Ups at IDC Herzliya
- **2020-2021** — Co-founded Heka Global during the pandemic, initially to reconnect consumers with lost or dormant financial assets
- **2025-03** — Heka goes live on the NayaOne fintech and data marketplace
- **2025-07** — Heka closes a $14M Series A led by Windare Ventures, with Barclays and Cornar Banca participating
- **2026-01** — Heka appointed Technical Partner to Winmark's PensionChair Network in the UK

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Heka Global, scaling it from a consumer asset-recovery idea into a global web-intelligence platform for financial institutions
- Closed a $14M Series A in July 2025 led by Windare Ventures with participation from Barclays and Cornar Banca
- Won deployments with major institutions including Barclays, Pictet Group, Clal Insurance, and ZEDRA
- In one deployment with a global payment processor, Heka caught 65% of account-takeover losses without disrupting legitimate activity
- Founded the Gladstone-Nir Legal Clinic for Start-Ups at IDC Herzliya

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Heka named Technical Partner to Winmark's PensionChair Network, providing member tracing and identity verification to UK pension schemes
- **2025-07** — Heka closed a $14M Series A led by Windare Ventures to accelerate US expansion and deepen its UK and Europe presence
- **2025-03** — Heka went live on the NayaOne fintech and data marketplace, letting banks and insurers trial its engine in a sandbox

## Links

- Website: https://hekaglobal.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/idan-bar-dov

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Last updated: 2026-06-12