Ep1025: Ziv Peremen | CEO and Co-Founder, X-trodes

Noa started her journey as a network researcher in Israel's elite intelligence Unti 8200. Following that, Noa graduated with honors from her double degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, in parallel for conducting multiple research projects in Algorithmic Game Theory. During that time, she also worked as a Software Engineer at Google. After graduation, Noa co-founded Odo Security, a Cyber Security startup specializing in Zero-Trust Network Access. Totay, after raising a $ 5M Seed round, Odo consists of 20 employees and is working with leading organizations around the world.

15 Aug 202020min

Katrina Yaukey is an actor musician who has appeared on Broadway, Film and TV and toured internationally.  She runs an accordion repair business in NYC and loves to talk about Volkswagens, pugs and plants.

15 Aug 202023min

Hillel Fuld has been named the 7th top tech blogger worldwide, Israel’s top marketer, and on Forbes, was dubbed “The Man Transforming Startup Nation to Scale up Nation.”   He is a global speaker, tech blogger, startup marketer, and leading online influencer. Today, Hillel collaborates with companies such as Google, Oracle, and Microsoft to help early and later stage entrepreneurs take their local technology to a global scale.

15 Aug 202025min

J-Ventures is a community empowered VC fund based in Silicon Valley and backed by over 150 leading investors. Previously a Partner at Rhodium, and was a VP at Capital Point group (early stage traded investment firm). Founded a startup that was acquired by YellowPages group. He formed and led the largest Israeli Tech and VC organization (now called IATI) and was a founding member of ICON and INTRO. Before becoming a VC, Oded was an editor and journalist covering tech and economy at Haaretz/TheMarker/ Red Herring.

15 Aug 202024min

Cliff is an American Israeli entrepreneur, Founder of Speechify Text To Speech software - the 10th highest grossing productivity app on Apple's App Store, used to read more than a billion words every month. Cliff is one of the youngest people named to Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30 list. He is a Dyslexia advocate, listens to 100 books a year, & has the first chapter of harry potter memorized. Cliff is one of the CEOs discussed in the book The Great CEO Within.

15 Aug 202019min

Shuly is the co-founding Partner at UpWest, a Silicon Valley seed fund investing in startups at the Israel-US technology junction. UpWest portfolio crossed $1B in VC funding and includes companies such as SentinelOne, HoneyBook, Stampli, CyCognito, Airobotics and more.

15 Aug 202021min

Prior to joining the Israeli Parliament, Shay was a high-tech entrepreneur, CEO of start-up companies, member in boards of directors, mentor for entrepreneurs and a social activist. He wrote a popular weekly column at Globes for 11 years, authored two books, and founded Israel’s largest digital community for entrepreneurs (“Start-Up Stadium”) with about 45 thousand members. Previously, Shay was a Managing General Partner with Canaan Partners Israel and was a board member with promising start-up companies, some of which reached significant ‘exit’ events.

15 Aug 202023min

Yasmin Lukatz, MBA Stanford, Startup Investor and Philanthropist, is the Founder and Executive Director of ICON - Israel Collaboration network, helping Israeli entrepreneurs penetrate the US market by bridging Silicon Valley and Israel. ICON's members are VC Partners, Executives at Fortune 500 companies and Founders of rising-star startups. Yasmin only asks, is to pay it forward, and also pay it back by rallying the ICON community to support and mentor children in Israel's periphery.  Yasmin is also a respected startup investor, starring in the new season of the Israeli TV version of Shark Tank.

15 Aug 202019min