Ep12: Efrat Dagan | Global Head of Talent at Next Insurance
Efrat Dagan has joined as Head of Talent at Next Insurance a few months back. Previously, she has been with Lyft Level 5, Google and Waze. Efrat has led Google Israel Talent Acquisition team for a decade and later moved to Google HQ for a Global role. She was selected as one of the most prominent human resources professionals in Israel. She is also an active speaker and blogger about the future of work and careers.
16 Aug 202021min
Ep11: Slavik Markovich | SVP Product, Demisto at Palo Alto Networks
Slavik is a serial entrepreneur with a passion to solve hard technology problems. Along with co-founding Demisto (acquired by Palo Alto Networks) and Sentrigo (acquired by McAfee), he serves as board member and advisor to several security startups. Slavik has over 20 years of experience in infrastructure, security and software development. Previously, he was vice president of R&D and chief architect at DB@net, a leading IT architecture consultancy firm. He has contributed to many open-source projects and is a regular speaker at industry conferences
16 Aug 202021min
Ep7: Noa Shafir | Co-Founder & CPO of Odo Security
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
Ep9: Katrina Yaukey | Broadway Actress and Musician
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
Ep10: Hillel Fuld | Startup Advisor and Tech Columnist
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
Ep6: Oded Hermoni | Managing Partner at J-Ventures
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
Ep8: Cliff Weitzman | Founder and CEO of Speechify
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
Ep2: Shuly Galili | Founding Partner of Upwest
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
