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Tomer Saban
Tomer Saban is the co-founder and CEO of WireX Systems, a network detection and response (NDR) and forensics company he started in 2010. With around 15 years in telecommunications and network security, he came out of Nice Systems' intelligence division and the Israeli 8200 Entrepreneurship Program to build a platform that turns raw network packets into readable, context-rich stories so security teams can investigate incidents in minutes rather than days. WireX's signature Contextual Capture technology aims to make advanced investigation accessible to every analyst in a security operations center, not just senior forensics experts.
Tal Daskal
Tal Daskal is the CEO and co-founder of EasySend, a Tel Aviv and New York-based no-code platform that turns paperwork like PDFs and manual forms into digital customer journeys for banks, insurers and financial institutions. He started the company in 2016 with brothers Omer and Eran Shirazi, reportedly working out of an attic, after seeing the paperwork problem first-hand inside the finance industry. A former IDF marine special forces officer, Daskal has raised roughly $77M for EasySend, including a $55.5M Series B in 2021, and now pushes the company toward AI-powered digital journeys serving enterprises like AXA, IKEA and Sompo International.
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.
Yisi Gross
Yisi Gross (Yisrael Gross) is an Israeli-rooted, New York-based technology entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded L7 Defense (now ammune.ai), an AI-driven API security company that raised Series A backing from TRUMPF Venture and Quick Heal, and today works as a Managing Partner at TYH Investments, backing early-stage high-tech startups. He built his reputation on the unglamorous frontier of API-borne attacks, arguing that autonomous, machine-learning defense - not human-tuned rules - is the only way to keep pace with modern cyberattacks.
Zohar Bronfman
Zohar Bronfman is the co-founder and CEO of Pecan AI, a predictive analytics company he launched two months after finishing not one but two PhDs at Tel Aviv University - one in computational cognitive neuroscience, another in the history and philosophy of science. He and his co-founder built Pecan's first prototype for a data-science competition they missed the deadline for, then turned it into a low-code platform that lets business teams build predictive models without hiring data scientists. Pecan has raised roughly $127 million from Insight Partners, GV, and Dell, and its work now touches revenue at Fortune 500 companies. Bronfman is a vocal skeptic of AI hype, arguing that predictive AI and generative AI are more useful married than either is alone.