Ep48: Dovi Frances | Financial Investor, contestant on Israeli Survivor
Dovi is an entrepreneur and Founding Partner of Group 11. He has invested over $150M in many of Silicon Valley’s most prominent and disruptive technology companies, including: SoFi, Addepar, Tipalti, TripActions, HomeLight, SunBit, Next Insurance and others. Previously, Dovi was VP at Deutsche Bank AG Private Bank and founded SG, a global financial advisory firm. He is also well known for his appearance as a “Shark” in the Israeli Shark Tank show.
23 Aug 202023min
Ep50: Pamela Becker | VP Marketing at prooV | Author | Speaker
Pamela has been a marketing executive for some of Israel’s leading tech companies including prooV, ironSource, SafeCharge and Payoneer. After she was widowed with three small children in 2008, Pamela co-founded and remains the active chairperson of the Israeli charity Jeremy's Circle, which supports kids coping with cancer treatment or cancer loss in their immediate families. She is the author of the novel Memoirs of a False Messiah.
23 Aug 202022min
Ep49: Dan Seider | Founder of Misu
Inspired by deep depression and advice from his mental health professionals, Dan taught himself to code and built one of the highest rated manual mood trackers. To help himself and others keep up the habit of mood tracking and advance the state of the art mental health technology, Dan is working on Misu — an automated mood tracker that tracks happiness and anxiety their micro facial expressions passively throughout the day.
23 Aug 202021min
Ep46: Laura Smoliar | Founding Partner at Berkeley Catalyst Fund
Laura has spent nearly two decades in Silicon Valley’s technology sector, with vast experience in building strategic partnerships and raising funds from Asia, harnessing the best assets of large corporations and small companies. Recently she has developed a hybrid investment model (containing non-profit and for-profit components), working closely with the University of California, Berkeley, to create the Berkeley Catalyst Fund.
23 Aug 202021min
Ep43: Etai Beck | Co-Founder and CEO of Folloze
Etai Beck is CEO and Co-founder of Folloze, provider of the leading Personalized Marketing Platform for B2B companies. A frequent industry speaker about the strategies and tools B2B marketers need to be successful today, Beck has uniquely sat at the intersection of product and field throughout his career. Previously, Beck served as Head of Strategy at Juniper Networks’ Campus and Branch (annual revenues of $800M).
22 Aug 202017min
Ep44: Alnisa Allgood | Founder of Collaboration for Good
Alnisa Allgood is the founder/director of Collaboration for Good— a dual focus nonprofit working to both 'change the face' of entrepreneurship and grow the capacity of the social sector. We use entrepreneurship, technology, and capacity building to make a social impact. Additionally, as a tech generalist, Alnisa founded Nonprofit Tech in 1998 as a national technology consultancy for nonprofits and public sector organizations.
22 Aug 202023min
Ep45: Amir Zwickel | Co-Founder of SHOWFIELDS
Amir is the Co-Founder and Chief Real Estate Officer of SHOWFIELDS, the “most interesting store in the world”. He is a serial entrepreneur with specialization in Real Estate Development, having founded five of the most successful hospitality businesses in Israel. He is a lawyer, has a Masters in Political Science and a Masters in Real Estate Development from Columbia University in New York.
22 Aug 202020min
Ep42: Logan Ury | Director of Relationship Science of Hinge
Logan Ury is a behavioral scientist who focuses on dating. She wrote a forthcoming book with Simon & Schuster on how to use insights from behavioral science to make better decisions in romantic relationships. She studied psychology at Harvard University and ran the Irrational Lab, Google’s behavioral science team. She was a 2018 TED Resident.
22 Aug 202020min
