Liron Friend leads the Developer Relations at Nvidia Israel. As part of her role Liron works with AI developers in many industries concentrating on healthcare, higher education, and general deep learning – helping to educate and implement solutions to accelerate AI development.
Liron also leads Nvidia’s Inception program for Startups, working closely with AI startups and helping them with their development and production solutions. In her previous role Liron lead the Amdocs Cloud Center of Excellence managing the transformation to hybrid architectures.
Bio
Mor is an Israeli tech insider with over 15 years experience assisting global corporations define new corporate strategies, M&A activities and technological pivots, working on the corporate level of blue chip companies such as SAP, IBM and Amdocs.
While pursuing her Bachelor’s degree at the Technion, Israel’s elite Technology University, Mor was chosen to be part of an exclusive international delegation in collaboration with the American Technion Society. At the Dean Delegation, Mor helped raise over $70M into fellowship support for PhDs to retain top technology talent in Israel.
Mor’s analytical and leadership skills were formed in the elite “8200” intelligence unit of the Israeli Defense Forces, one of Israel’s prime sources of Technology innovation. Writing code at the age of 16 and a native English speaker, she was chosen from thousands of applicants to work as an analyst on top secret technologies and critical intelligence.
Mor puts this same insight, discipline and influence on your side through iAngels, knowing where to look for new technologies, vetting them for market potential and structuring deal terms and a management team that is poised to deliver the best possible returns. She holds an MBA from Columbia University(New York) and is a Mathematics and Computer Science Graduate from the Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology (Haifa).
Company
iAngels is a hybrid VC and angel investment firm, enabling a global investor audience the opportunity to invest in early stage start-ups in Israel
BriefCam is thee industry’s leading provider of Video Synopsis® and Deep Learning solutions for rapid video review and search, face recognition, real-time alerting and quantitative video insights.
Itai brings over 20 years of experience and a diverse background of building products, managing engineering teams and leading companies. He leads the BriefCam product, engineering, R&D and customer success teams, driving cutting-edge artificial intelligence and video analytics innovation.
Prior to BriefCam, Itai was CEO of Ericsson Media solutions Israel, where he transitioned from being VP Products to the CEO role, following Ericsson’s acquisition of Fabrix in 2014. Itai also served as Head of Products and Business Development at Cellebrite.
Eyal has over 20 years of experience in computer science and software development, leading research and development teams across multiple companies.
Prior to Feedvisor, Eyal managed the research and analytics group at VeriSign, and before that served as CTO at Zoomix Data Mastering (acquired by Microsoft).
Eyal holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Nick provides the link between the startups at Founders Factory and the corporate partners (L’Oréal, Aviva, easyJet, Holtzbrinck, The Guardian, M&S and CSC).
Nick’s time is spent supporting startups best identify partners, position their proposition and set them up for success when working with customers.
Nick is also a mentor in the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur program and before the Factory he worked on bringing AI to market at IBM Watson.
Bio
Inbal is a Venture Partner at Entrée Capital. She is an experienced entrepreneur and a global product strategy leader with over 16 years of experience in spearheading new business launches at Hewlett Packard, RDC, Better Place, Tufin, and Endor AI. She is a world-renowned expert at partnering with Fortune-500 enterprises across industries, unlocking value and growing B2B businesses by leveraging cutting edge technology. Inbal holds an honors MBA from Columbia University and Ben Gurion University, and a BA from Ben Gurion University.
Company
Entrée Capital provides multi-stage funding for innovative start-ups and companies all over the world. Entrée Capital was founded by successful entrepreneurs with a track record of having successfully invested and exited over twenty businesses on five continents in the past decade. They have offices in London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco.
Ira is the chief data scientist at Anodot, working on learning algorithms for analyzing time series signals at large scale – from anomaly detection, clustering and forecasting.
Prior to Anodot, Ira was Chief Data Scientist at HP Software, defining and developing machine learning & big data initiatives. Before that Ira was a senior researcher at HP Labs, leading R&D in machine learning and data mining for analyzing large scale event streams.
He is the author of numerous patents and publications and holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
Jonathan Saacks is Managing Partner of F2 Capital. Previously, Jonny was Managing Partner at Genesis Partners and brings extensive early stage investment experience from his previous roles at operational companies and venture capital funds.
Earlier in his career, Jonny headed international sales and business development for UK-based Waterlogic and was the first employee at Barak International Telecom Corp., where he oversaw product management, marketing and international partnerships and helped the organization grow to 400 employees.
Jonny also served for ten years in the Intelligence Corps of the Israeli Defense Forces where he commanded large operational teams. Jonny is a Lieutenant Colonel in the IDF and holds an MBA from Oxford University and a BA in Economics and Management from Tel Aviv University.
