Athena is the CEO & founder of HiredScore, an Artificial Intelligence HR tech company powering the Fortune 500. HiredScore leverages the power of data and machine learning to drive deep recruitment process efficiencies, enhance talent mobility, and help organizations move to a fully optimized TA function.
Prior to founding HiredScore, Athena was an investor in NYC, most recently at Altaris Capital, where she managed and sourced investments in highly regulated data environments. Prior to that, she was an investment banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, focused on public technology & media companies.
Athena serves on the board of Community Education Alliance of West Philadelphia, a network of Charter Schools with +800 disadvantaged students, focused on preparing youth for the workforce and a successful life. She founded Belmont Sprouts, which builds urban gardens and healthy eating experiences. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers and Thousand Network. Athena received a B.S. from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
Dr. Shmulik Marcovitch, Talpiot Alumni, is VP of Algo-Routing at Via, a ridesharing company that has developed and deployed the world’s first operating system for on-demand dynamic public transit.
Via is backed by the world’s top investors and has raised over $414 million to date
Shmulik leads Via’s research and development of advanced algorithms in areas of graph-theory, optimization, big data and machine learning. Among others these include dynamically calculating routes in real-time, choosing optimal pickup and dropoff virtual bus-stops, rebalancing empty vehicles based on anticipated demand, and perception based routing of shared rides.
Paris Region Entreprises is the Paris Region agency in charge of attracting foreign investors. It assists foreign companies in their settlements into the Paris Region through a customized full range of services, confidential and completely free of charge.
Every company that contacts us will be put in contact with a lead investment advisor who will become their main port of call. They will in turn request information from a network of leading experts from within central and local government, as well as the private sector.
Position duties: Advisor to the Minister of Transport and to the Director General on transport and road safety related issues. Responsible for building annual and multi annual strategic plans. Manager of National Research for Transport. Responsible for initiation and implementation of surveys and studies. MOT Representative at various forums in Israel and abroad.
An entrepreneur with 15 years of experience in global HR and Employment Relocation Management, Eynat Guez is one of the leading experts in HR and Relocation Management in the industry.
After founding Relocation Source in 2008 (a DSP and Global Mobility Solutions provider offering comprehensive solutions for Relocation, Recruitment, Employment and Payroll), Eynat had also founded Expert Source in 2014 (an Asian PEO organization helping US corporates expand their business into Asia).
Prior to founding Relocation Source, Eynat had served as a COO at a global holdings group with extensive operations in developing countries. Since Eynat’s latest start-up, she has played a leading role in helping global business players enter and expand their business into the Israeli market.
Nadav is a a technology expert and researcher in both industry and academia. He brings years of experience in building, managing, and nurturing technology driven teams and startups, in the Information Technology, Agtech, and Life Science industries.
Nadav’s keen interest and proficiency in Healthcare, Bioinformatics, and Artificial Intelligence applications allowed for a rich academic background, spanning a wide range of multifaceted research fields. His unique abilities, combining technological expertise, deep science competence, and strong business skills, are exceptionally rare, even more so in the Venture Capital realm, constituting a significant asset to our portfolio companies.
Nadav holds both a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of California-Davis (with honors and distinction), and a BSc in Bioinformatics from Tel Aviv University (magna cum laude). He shares his knowledge as a lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Tel Aviv University, and the Technion
Dr. Hagit Perry is the Head of the Big Data specialization in the MBA program at the IDC Herzliya School of Business.
She owns and manages a consulting firm in the field. She also holds a PhD. from UC Berkley. Her academic and consulting projects focus on increasing revenues and reducing costs using data-science and big-data.
Product-Management and Data-Science expertise with over 15 yrs experience in the US and Israel. Leading product-management and strategy based on data-science and business intelligence at varied firms, ramping up the data-driven analytics and prediction, which where the key success factors for scaling and profit optimization. Took a part of 5 startups, 2 of them got acquired. Vast experience in many industries, including retail and e-commerce, cyber, digital advertising, and telecom. Currently focusing on recommeder systems, bots, and pricing optimization in my research, consulting, and courses.
Adam is a serial entrepreneur turned VC who covers the Israeli market for 500 Starups – a leading global venture capital seed fund and startup accelerator that manages $200M in assets and invests in 1300+ technology startups.
500 Startups is the most active and diverse seed fund in the world on a mission to disrupt the VC world.
Arnon manages the technical and business relations between Qualcomm and the Israeli tech ecosystem
working mainly with startup companies on strategic collaboration projects.
