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Alon Maor and the shortest route to movie night
A conversation after squash became Qwilt, a company built to bring streaming video closer to its audience. Alon Maor’s career traces the patient work behind an apparently effortless press of the play button.
Kira Radinsky and the art of getting past the puzzle
A childhood game taught Kira Radinsky to look for another way through. The computer scientist carried that habit into news prediction, a startup acquired by eBay, and a career spent turning research into working software.
Shlomi Ben Haim and the refrigerator pitch
JFrog’s co-founder built a business around the software most people never see. His story runs from an unlikely investor pitch to a public company, with a stubborn belief that the people you hire early decide what happens next.
Ido Susan and the price of standing still
A $475 million company sale gave Ido Susan a chance to stop. He built DriveNets instead, carrying a question from mobile networks into the AI era: how much expensive machinery is waiting to do its job?
Ofir Schlam and the Tiny Clue That Changed a Field
He learned agriculture at walking speed and computing at machine speed. Taranis grew from the productive friction between the two.
Avia Chen Turned the Refund Nobody Wanted Into the Company Merchants Needed
A beauty brand taught Avia Chen an ugly lesson about online payments. He and his brother built Chargeflow from the paperwork, lost revenue and stubborn curiosity that followed.
Ido Gaver
Ido Gaver is the CEO and co-founder of Sweep, a New York-based software company building an agentic workspace that lets AI agents observe, document, and govern the metadata inside enterprise CRM systems like Salesforce and HubSpot. A serial entrepreneur, he previously co-founded flok, a small-business loyalty and CRM startup acquired by Wix in 2017, after which he ran B2B and partnerships for Wix. Since founding Sweep in 2021, he has raised over $45M, including a $22.5M Series B led by Insight Partners with Bessemer, and signed customers such as LG Electronics, Brex, NBC Sports, and Wix.
Itzik Malka
Itzik Malka is the co-founder and CEO of 4M Analytics, an Austin- and Israel-based company building what he calls the Google Maps of the underground. Drawing on a decade in an elite Israeli combat-engineering unit clearing buried explosives, he now leads a 130-person team that fuses AI, satellite imagery and public utility records to map the hidden network of pipes, cables and conduits beneath America before crews dig. 4M has raised roughly $119 million to date, including a Series C, and counts firms like AECOM and Stantec and multiple state DOTs among its customers.
Yair Goldfinger
Yair Goldfinger is an Israeli engineer and serial entrepreneur who, at 26, co-founded ICQ, the first Internet-wide instant messaging service, sold to AOL in 1998. He went on to co-found the online advertising company Dotomi (acquired by ValueClick) and is now Co-Founder and CEO of AppCard, a New York based loyalty and personalization platform that gives independent grocers the marketing firepower once reserved for national chains. A World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a notoriously press-shy angel investor, he builds companies around a single idea: relevance beats noise.
Amiram Shachar
Amiram Shachar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Upwind Security, a cloud-native security unicorn valued at $1.5 billion after its $250M Series B in January 2026. A serial entrepreneur with deep IDF Mamram roots, he previously founded Spot.io - sold to NetApp for $450M - before returning to build a runtime-first CNAPP platform that cuts security alert noise by 98%. He leads a team of ~350 people from San Francisco and Tel Aviv.
Rotem Iram
Rotem Iram is the co-founder and CEO of At-Bay, the world's first InsurSec provider - a company that merges cyber insurance with active security technology to help businesses reduce and manage digital risk. A veteran of Israel's elite Intelligence Unit 8200, Harvard MBA holder, and former McKinsey consultant, Iram built At-Bay from a 2014 email hunch into a $1.35 billion unicorn by 2021, pioneering the idea that insurers - not just enterprises - should be the ones forcing better cybersecurity standards across the market.