AI and the Urgency of Real-Time Cybersecurity: A Conversation with Dr. Dorit Dor, Check Point

Tal leads the F2 Venture Capital investment team, managing all aspects of the fund's deal flow with a focus on deal sourcing, due diligence, and value creation. Prior to F2, Tal operated as the General Manager at The Junction and was recognized as one of the 30Under30 by Forbes Magazine. Tal is on the board of Combat Ventures, a non-profit organization assisting IDF veterans' integration into the Israeli startup ecosystem. Previously, Tal served as a Captain in the Israeli Special Forces. Tal holds a BA degree from the IDC and The University of Southern California.

31 Jan 202122min

Rachel is a food and pharma expert,  with proven success in bringing new products and breaking-through innovations to fruition in leading companies in highly competitive industries as V.P. Marketing at Teva pharmaceuticals, Business Manager at Nestle and Marketing Manager at Strauss group. She is a Grand EFFI Winner, holds B.A. in Psychology & Communication from Tel-Aviv University, and MBA (with honor) from ESG in France.

30 Jan 202121min

Oren Dobronsky is an entrepreneur by heart turned into an accomplished angel investor.  Oren lives with his wife and two kids in the Silicon Valley and is mostly known as the founder of Oren's Hummus, a local, very famous Israeli restaurant chain.In 2020 Oren and his family moved to Israel for a gap year and were shocked to discover the level of poverty in rural Israel, especially after COVID’s impact on families with young children. Oren is determined to help these families through ClearGiving.com , a non-profit org he had co-founded with a group of other techies.

29 Jan 202125min

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