Ep948: Rani Puranik | Owner, EVP & Global CFO, Worldwide Oilfield Machine

Ronen Dar is an Algorithm engineer and the Co-Founder & CTO at Run:ai, a cloud-native software platform that optimizes and orchestrates GPU compute resources for AI and Deep Learning workloads. The company recently raised a $75M Series C. Before starting Run:ai, Ronen did a Ph.D. at Tel Aviv University and a postdoc as a research scientist at Bell Labs in the US, so he can talk about his switch from academia to becoming a founder. Ronen is a recipient of the Intel award for excellence in academic studies and research (2013), the Weinstein award for outstanding publication in the field of signal processing (2013), and the Weinstein prize for academic excellence (2011).

16 Jan 202322min

Eric is the CEO of Mintt since 2018 where he brought innovation to market and now scaling internationnaly. Prior to Mintt, he co-founded SoftKinetic, inventor of 3D depth sensors and human tracking algorithms. SoftKinetic has been acquired by Sony in 2015. Before SoftKinetic, Eric co-founded 72dpi, a innovative CGI, Web & Entertainement company i the early 2000.

15 Jan 202324min

Ehud (Udi) Hausman is a patent attorney who manages the Hi-Tech department of the Reinhold Cohn Group, the largest, earliest established Intellectual Property firm in Israel. Over the years he has offered his professional expertise in the protection of inventions and building IP strategy, advising both entrepreneurs and companies in the fields of Computer Science, Physics and Electronics, including Internet, cellular technology, databases, multi-media, Big Data, Machine Learning and other software, hardware, and integrated systems and processes.

14 Jan 202321min

Bobby is the CEO of Equals, a next generation spreadsheet with live connections to any database, versioning, and collaboration. He previously ran Finance and Analytics at Intercom.

13 Jan 202322min

Joe Natoli has had many titles throughout his career: actor, game designer, educator, full-stack developer and entrepreneur. His passion for delighting people through technology led him to found LOOFT, the world’s first world’s first cooling and heating comfort service company while working at a venture builder in Leipzig, Germany. Joe brings knowledge of international startups, Silicon Valley and more, having worked with billionaire investor Tim Draper, Draper University, teaching entrepreneurship around the world from Africa to Asia. Afterwards, Joe settled in Europe to put his knowledge to work by forming ventures in the underserved market of Eastern Germany. Joe could be considered the ultimate startup guy, having built, founded or failed over a dozen startup businesses.

12 Jan 202321min

Wilko Visser is the CEO at ValueBlue, a company behind the SaaS platform BlueDolphin: an Enterprise Architecture tool for Agile Business Transformation. Prior to starting the company in 2011, Wilko spent time as a senior executive across both self-started organizations and private corporations with thousands of employees. A strong believer in the promises of digital transformation, Wilko is excited about the innovation BlueDolphin is enabling for organizations across the globe.

11 Jan 202320min

Dr Bracha Halaf is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Gravity Climate-Fund & Venture Studio. An investor with deep scientific, engineering, and regulatory background. Bracha was the Chief Scientist of Israel’s Ministry of Energy and the public representative at Israel’s Public Utility Authority. Bracha also served in the recent years as a Principal at Qure Ventures, a digital Health VC. Bracha Holds Ph.D in Biophysics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, and M.Sc. & B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University.

10 Jan 202323min

Tyler Bryden is an experienced business owner, marketer, and product leader passionate about improving human-computer interaction to unlock personal and professional growth. He currently leads Speak Ai, a technology company supported by Techstars that uses speech-to-text and natural language processing to automatically extract valuable insights from audio, video, and text. 7,000+ researchers, marketers, and data professionals use Speak Ai's intuitive platform to capture and analyze language data for better decision-making.

9 Jan 202334min