# Ohad Rozen

> Ohad Rozen is the co-founder and CEO of Tymely, a New York and Israel based startup building an AI agent that resolves complex e-commerce customer service tickets end-to-end. A former NLP research scientist at Amazon and Yahoo with a PhD from Bar-Ilan University, Rozen previously ran the guided-onboarding startup Toonimo. Tymely has raised roughly $15.25M across seed and Series B rounds, backed by Hetz Ventures, DESCOvery (D.E. Shaw's venture studio), and 97212 Ventures.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Tymely
- **Organizations:** Tymely, Toonimo (former CEO), Amazon (former NLP research scientist), Yahoo (former NLP research scientist), Bar-Ilan University (PhD)
- **Nationality:** Israeli
- **Education:** PhD, Natural Language Processing / Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University
- **Known for:** Co-founded and scaled two venture-backed startups (Toonimo, Tymely)., Raised approximately $15.25M in total funding for Tymely across seed and Series B., PhD in NLP with published research on adversarial datasets, textual inference and product-question answering.

## Career timeline

- **pre-2018** — Co-founded Toonimo, cloud-based guided-onboarding platform; served as CEO and raised roughly $7M.
- **2018-2021** — PhD candidate in NLP and Deep Learning at Bar-Ilan University.
- **2018-2021** — NLP research scientist stints at Yahoo and Amazon.
- **2021** — Co-founded Tymely with Roy Penn (CTO), formerly VP Engineering at Amenity Analytics.
- **2022-09** — Tymely announced $7M seed round from Hetz Ventures and DESCOvery (D.E. Shaw).
- **2024-06** — Won Innovation Village Retail Expo startup competition.
- **2024-08** — Won a 2024 summer startup competition (Fotoshoe Magazine coverage).
- **2024-09** — Series B funding of $8.25M closed; total funding reaches ~$15.25M.

## Achievements

- Co-founded and scaled two venture-backed startups (Toonimo, Tymely).
- Raised approximately $15.25M in total funding for Tymely across seed and Series B.
- PhD in NLP with published research on adversarial datasets, textual inference and product-question answering.
- 111 Google Scholar citations, h-index 5.
- Winner, Innovation Village Retail Expo 2024 startup competition.

## Latest updates

- **2024-09** — Tymely closed Series B at $8.25M, bringing total funding to about $15.25M.
- **2024-08** — Won a summer 2024 startup competition, covered by Fotoshoe Magazine.
- **2024-06** — Winning startup at Innovation Village Retail Expo.

## Links

- Website: https://tymely.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ohad-rozen-544b204/

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Last updated: 2026-07-09