Ep41: Omer Rozen | Financial Investor, contestant on Israeli Survivor

Avi Eyal is co-founder of and managing partner of Entree Capital, a firm with operations in the U.S., U.K., and Israel that manages more than $500 million in assets across 90 portfolio companies. Portfolio startups include Riskified, which raised $165 million in November 2019, and monday.com, an Israel-based work software company that reportedly reached a valuation of $3 billion in 2020, and where Eyal sits on the board. He's also an investor in Cazoo, Glovo, Stash, and Rapyd. Avi is a third time Midas top 25 lister and the Johnnie Walker Entrepreneur of the Year winner in 2010.

28 Jan 202125min

Lior is the founder & CEO of Openbase, a Y Combinator company that helps developers choose among millions of open-source projects.He previously founded Wikiwand and BookAuthority, both profitable businesses that are used by millions of people.Born and raised in Israel, Lior has been programming since the age of 10, got his first job at Scitex at the age of 16 while in high school, joined the Israel Intelligence Corps (Unit 8200) at the age of 18, and started his first business (a software development business) at the age of 25. In 2018, he moved to the United States with his wife, and they currently live in San Francisco, California.

27 Jan 202123min

Rachel Trobman is the CEO of Upside Health, leading the team on business development, strategy and clinical relationships. The company is based on Rachel's personal experience with chronic pain and has worked with more than 15,000 patients and hundreds of clinicians to expand access to chronic pain care. Rachel has nearly two decades of experience building digital products and experiences for Fortune 500 companies and media enterprises including, but not limited to, P&G, Yahoo!, NBC and the New York Times. Most recently, Rachel’s work in the digital health space has earned her recognition by the International Association for the Study of Pain, the Yale School of Medicine, eyeforPharma, and the U.S. Pain Foundation.

26 Jan 202127min

Zvi is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience turning novel ideas into successful businesses. As founder and CEO of CloudShare, he started a Sequoia Capital company that provides a public cloud service for software development and testing to over 200,000 subscribers.  Prior to CloudShare, he founded and served as CTO of Safend, an endpoint security solution that was acquired by NASDAQ: WAVX.

25 Jan 202121min

Mike Cassidy is the CEO of Apollo Fusion, Inc.  Mike Cassidy was recently a Vice President at Google.  He was the Project Leader of GoogleX’s Project Loon (balloon-powered Internet for everyone).  Prior to joining Google, Mike was the Co-Founder and CEO of four start-ups: Ruba, Xfire, Direct Hit, and Stylus Innovation.  Mike has a BS/MS in Aerospace Engineering from MIT.  He graduated from Harvard Business School.  He studied jazz piano at Berklee College of Music..

24 Jan 202122min

Arod is a Manager at Deloitte Catalyst, Deloitte Israel's startup practice, focusing on Life Sciences and Healthcare innovation. He also is the co-founder of Wize, one of Israel's largest content platforms, a board member of the 8200 Alumni Association, where he leads the digital transformation project and several other initiatives, and a board member of ISOC-IL, the Israeli Internet Association. Arod is passionate about climate change, an avid reader and a lawyer by training.

23 Jan 202126min

Tess is a Principal at GSV Ventures, an early-stage venture fund focused on education technology. Tess spent time at Pluralsight on their strategy team, was a top sales executive at Andela (start-up transforming talent across Africa), and the Head of Talent at Timehop. Tess holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA in International Relations/Economics from New York University. Tess was a Teaching Assistant at Stanford GSB for “Diverse Leadership in Education.” She serves on the Advisory Board for Girl Develop It, a non-profit providing software engineering courses for adult women.

22 Jan 202123min

Peter Fishman is the co-founder and CEO of Mozart Data (YCS20), the easiest way to spin up a modern data stack.  Previously, he was the Chief Strategy Officer at Eaze, a cannabis technology platform. He has also worked at fast-growing startups including Opendoor, Zenefits, Yammer/Microsoft, Playdom/Disney.  He also has been involved with sports analytics at the Philadelphia Eagles and has run a hot sauce company, Bacon Hot Sauce.  He holds a B.S. from Duke University and a Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley.

21 Jan 202124min