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Alon Cohen Built Houzz by Treating Friction as a Blueprint
A frustrating ranch-house remodel gave the engineer a problem worth coding. Fifteen years later, he is leading Houzz into its software-and-AI chapter with the same operating idea: make the complicated feel simple.
Romi Gubes
Romi Gubes is the co-founder and CEO of Sensi.AI, an Austin-based company that turns ambient audio into around-the-clock care intelligence for seniors aging at home. A former Fortune 500 software engineer, she started the company in 2019 after a personal experience with vulnerability in care redirected her career toward protecting people who can't advocate for themselves. Under her leadership Sensi has raised more than $98 million, grown revenue 400% in a year, and expanded into what she describes as an AI operating system for senior care.
Hani Goldstein
Hani Goldstein is the co-founder and CEO of Snappy, the corporate gifting platform she started in 2015 with Dvir Cohen. Under her leadership Snappy has delivered more than six million gifts and become a gifting partner to a large share of the Fortune 100, including Microsoft, Zoom, Comcast and Uber. She has raised roughly $130 million across four rounds through a Series D in 2024, and guided the company through a swag-and-merchandise expansion with its 2025 acquisition of Covver. Goldstein operates by a simple mantra, 'do good,' and built Snappy around the idea that small moments of recognition can change how people feel about their work and each other.
Neatsun Ziv
Neatsun Ziv is the co-founder and CEO of OX Security, an application security posture management company he started in 2021 with fellow Check Point veteran Lior Arzi after the SolarWinds breach. OX raised a $60M Series B in May 2025, bringing total funding to about $101.5M, and pitches a platform that culls the roughly 5% of code and pipeline risks that developers actually need to fix. Before OX, Ziv ran Threat Prevention & Intelligence at Check Point, where his team helped coordinate responses to NotPetya, SolarWinds and other campaigns with Interpol and national CERTs.
Raz Golan
Raz Golan is the CEO and co-founder of Shopic, a Tel Aviv-based retail technology company that makes a clip-on device that snaps onto standard grocery carts and turns them into AI-powered smart carts. A veteran of Israel's Unit 8200 and a former Check Point security researcher, Golan started Shopic in 2015 with Eran Kravitz and Dan Bendler after concluding that big supermarkets did not need a new cart - they needed a small computer that could ride along on the one they already owned.
Tom Pachys
Tom Pachys is the co-founder and CEO of EX.CO, a Disney-backed video technology and monetization platform used by publishers including Hearst, CBSi, Time, Nasdaq, and VICE. He started building websites at 12, served in an elite Israeli intelligence-technology unit, was an early leader at SundaySky, and co-founded the machine-learning startup Whimado before co-founding Playbuzz in 2012, which he rebranded into EX.CO in 2019. He now leads roughly 160 people worldwide, betting that AI and supply-path optimization can rescue the economics of online video for the open web.
Uri Haramati
Uri Haramati is the co-founder and CEO of Torii, a New York-based SaaS management platform that helps IT teams discover, track, and automate the sprawl of software applications inside modern companies. A serial entrepreneur, he previously co-founded Life on Air, the studio behind the viral live-streaming apps Meerkat and Houseparty, and earlier launched the event-discovery app Skedook. He raised a $50M Series B for Torii led by Tiger Global in 2022, bringing total funding to $65M, and describes his lifelong ambition as building 'one software to manage all software.'
Noam Ben-Zvi
Noam Ben-Zvi is the co-founder and CEO of Placer.ai, the location intelligence platform that turns anonymized phone movement into hard numbers for retailers, landlords, and city planners. He sold his first company, BlueTail, to Salesforce in 2012, then started Placer in 2016. By 2024 the company crossed $100M ARR and raised at a $1.5B valuation.