I seek base reality. I'm likely to fail so in the meantime I hope to contribute value to the world by building meaningful companies and helping others do the same. I’m the managing partner of the TechAviv Founder Partners fund and run the TechAviv Founders Club. I founded BillGuard (Acquired by Prosper) to help people get control of their finances, saving our customers millions of dollars in wrongful charges and over-spending.  I founded Pando Networks (Acquired by Microsoft) to optimize the Internet and Fan Networks to empower artists. 

I've also had a few "real jobs". I've served as a founding board director at CloudLock (Acquired by Cisco) and Pond5, and as an innovation advisor to the White House. Men and women in the arena inspire me and I consider it a privilege to help them. I created the TechAviv Founders Club to help Israeli founders succeed by harnessing the collective energy, knowledge, and networks of the global Israeli startup community. I mentor young founders, invest in the very best, lecture on entrepreneurship at Stanford and Columbia business schools, and occasionally podcast.

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founder & ceo

BillGuard (Acquired by Prosper) was a personal finance analytics company best known for pioneering the use of crowdsourcing to help consumers find 10's of millions of dollars in wrongful charges and over-spending on their payment cards. Backed by some of the world's top investors including BVP, Vinod Khosla, Eric Schmidt and Peter Thiel, BillGuard developed one of the fastest growing and highest rated personal finance apps in history before being acquired by Prosper Marketplace in Oct 2015.

Founder & CPO/CMO

Pando Networks (Acquired by Microsoft) was the world's leading personal and commercial P2P content delivery company with over 100 million users and several Fortune 500 customers before being acquired by Microsoft. Today every Xbox ships with "Pando Inside" optimizing the delivery of games, video and other rich media. After starting the company out of my apartment in 2004 I designed, managed and marketed our products to exponential growth and profitability before leaving in 2009 to start BillGuard.

founder & president

DeskSite merged with my company, Fan Networks in 2001 and I stayed on for a year as President. DeskSite is a next-generation digital media company that changed the way fans connect with their favorite artists, sports teams and entertainment brands. By building a network of app-based video entertainment portals, called DeskSites, the company offers both viewers and marketers certain advantages over cloud-based video entertainment portals.

founder & managing partner

TechAviv Established in 2007, the TechAviv Founders Club is a private global network of over 3,000 Israeli startup founders and investors that are committed to helping each other and our next generation succeed. We meet on and offline to harness our collective energy, knowledge, and networks. In 2020 we added a founders fund, backed and powered by some of the world’s most successful company builders. Together, we help elite Israeli founders build large-scale, enduring, IPO-caliber companies.

founding board director

CloudLock’s (Acquired by Cisco) mission is to transform cloud cybersecurity into a people and business enabler. CloudLock’s cloud security fabric is a cloud native CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker) which allows enterprises to embrace the cloud as their primary business platform, with better security and compliance than on-premise. The largest customers in the world trust CloudLock to protect over 10 Million users, 1 Billion sensitive data objects, and 100,000 applications they use every day. 

founding board director

Pond5 is transforming the role of video in the creative process by connecting producers, creative directors, and editors to more than 60,000 filmmakers and creators in over 150 countries. The company strives to improve creative production through its innovative artist technology, easy-to-use platform, and ever-growing library of more than 6 million royalty-free video clips, plus millions of, music tracks, sound effects, photos and other leading-edge media.