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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.
Simon Adar
Simon Adar is the co-founder and CEO of Code Ocean, a New York-based platform that packages research code, data, and compute environments into reproducible 'compute capsules' so scientists can rerun each other's work without wrestling with dependencies. A hyperspectral imaging PhD from Tel Aviv University turned Cornell Tech Runway postdoc, he started the company after concluding that too much of his own research time went into trying, and failing, to rerun other people's code.
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.
Yoni Shtein
Yoni Shtein is the CEO and co-founder of Laguna Health, a New York and Tel Aviv company building conversational AI copilots for payer care teams. Born in Chisinau and raised across continents, he moved from an elite Israeli Air Force unit to writing code at Microsoft, then to running more than half a billion dollars of investments before turning entrepreneur. Laguna landed on TIME's Best Inventions of 2024. Shtein pairs an investor's skepticism with a runner's stamina and an immigrant's comfort with the unfamiliar.
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.
Nimrod Kozlovski
Dr. Nimrod Kozlovski is the founder and CEO of Cytactic, a Tel Aviv-based cyber crisis readiness and management platform that raised a $16M seed round in 2024 led by Evolution Equity Partners. A cyber-law scholar turned operator, he holds a J.S.D. from Yale Law School with a post-doc in computer science, founded the cybersecurity program at Tel Aviv University's business school, was a partner at JVP Cyber Labs, led the tech and regulation practice at Herzog Fox & Neeman, and served as a captain in an IDF electronic warfare unit. He co-founded earlier startups PLYmedia and Altal Security and has authored books on internet law and cybercrime.
Shiri Gil
Shiri Gil works in the Office of the CEO at Vega, the New York and Israel-based cybersecurity company building a federated Security Analytics Mesh that raised a $120M Series B in February 2026. A former Israeli military intelligence team leader turned operator, she pairs a Columbia cognitive science degree with hands-on marketing-technology and operations experience from Deloitte and earlier roles. She sits at the operational center of one of the fastest-funded security startups of the moment.
Yoav Einav
Yoav Einav is the CEO and co-founder of Guidde, the AI-powered video documentation platform that turns complex enterprise workflows into step-by-step video guides in minutes. A product leader with over 13 years in B2B software — spanning stints at Qwilt, Iguazio, and GigaSpaces — Einav co-founded Guidde in 2020 with Dan Sahar, leveraging their shared background in video infrastructure to solve a problem every scaling company hits: how do you transfer what your best people know? In February 2026, Guidde closed a $50M Series B led by PSG Equity, bringing total funding to $80.6M, and is now used by 4,500+ enterprises — from Nasdaq to Bayer — across 50,000 applications.