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For 30+ years, Eugene Buff has been the behind-the-scenes “bridge” between breakthrough science and the companies that actually bring it to market—from university tech transfer offices drowning in inventions to global corporates hunting for the next edge. He’s a MD/PhD geneticist, a former Harvard Medical School researcher whose papers still get cited… and the rare operator who walked away from NI...

If you’re building in AI and you think “human cognition” is just more training data, this episode will challenge you. Assaf Horowitz is the Co-Founder & CEO of BrainVivo, a computational neuroscientist working at the edge of sci-fi and enterprise reality: scanning real brains and building “brain twins” — digital models that can predict how a specific expert or audience will feel, value, and de...

In this episode, Daniel Green (Co-Founder & CTO) shares how Faye became one of the fastest-growing, most loved travel protection brands in the U.S.—by obsessing over one idea: solve it now. Daniel breaks down the bigger lesson behind that moment: customers don’t want more alerts, dashboards, or “status updates.” They want outcomes. And Faye’s entire product philosophy—from app-first support to...

They said it couldn’t be done. So he built a robot and sent it up the side of a skyscraper. No water. No chemicals. Just quiet, climbing machines—methodically wiping down glass and collecting inspection data that building owners have never had access to before. That’s what Ido Genosar and his team at Verobotics are doing. And yes, it looks like science fiction. But it’s already working on real bui...

Daniel Cohen has spent 25 years investing across Israel’s tech ecosystem—Gemini, Viola, and now as Co-Founder & GP at Sticker Ventures, where he’s betting hard on one thing: the next wave of global consumer winners will come out of Israel. In this episode, Daniel breaks down why Israeli founders have a unique edge in distribution, growth hacking, and performance-driven execution—and where they...

Eyal Harel, CEO of BlueGreen Water Technologies, has spent 12 years going where most companies won’t: toxic, collapsing water bodies that communities rely on—and where “solutions” usually mean waiting for the next disaster. Eyal has seen how bad it gets up close: sewage flowing into lakes, drinking water pulled from the other side, and ecosystems turning into dead zones you can’t swim in, fish fro...

Jerry Neumann is a Columbia University professor, author, and retired investor who was named one of the “100 Best Early-Stage Investors” and one of the “Most Important VCs in New York” by Business Insider. He co-wrote Founder vs Investor , runs the iconic blog Reaction Wheel, and has spent decades dissecting how startups really win—not in theory, but in the messy, unpredictable reality of markets,...

Gilad Uziely isn’t just the CEO of Sequence—he’s one of the few founders who has lived through every chapter of the entrepreneurial cycle: raising millions, scaling fast, watching the unit economics turn against him, shutting off onboarding, facing 160 rejections, restructuring a cap table with 83 signatures… and then coming back with a product customers paid for before it even existed. Today, Seq...

André Levy is the Chairman of Protégé International Group and Lodestar Licensing, and one of the rare operators who has lived every chapter of modern commerce: expelled from Egypt, rebuilt in the UK, forged his career across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, opened markets by hand, survived corporate politics, and then created global brands— ROUTE 66® and The Wild Geese —rooted in story, truth, mem...

Before Alexander Shilman was writing checks into frontier biotech, neurotech, AI infrastructure, and semiconductors, he was something rare in venture: a behavioral scientist trusted by governments, corporates, early-stage teams—and even prime ministers—to decode how humans actually behave under pressure, uncertainty, and change. That vantage point became a superpower. Alex spent a decade inside ro...

How many times can you rebuild your life? Andreas Foeldenyi has done it—again and again. From losing everything after 9/11 to teaching in obscure classrooms just to pay the bills, to becoming Co-CEO of one of Switzerland’s largest private education groups, Academia Group—his story is a masterclass in grit, reinvention, and the art of turning collapse into momentum. Andreas’s career has spanned con...

Before GO-OUT powered payments and operations for sports teams and music festivals across 14+ countries, it started with a 15-year-old kid in Jerusalem who hacked NBA 2K to play with his hometown team. That same mix of curiosity, grit, and obsession drove Yotam Cohen, now Founder & CEO of GO-OUT, to bootstrap a global company that unites ticketing, payments, and data for organizations that wer...

At Walmart, he turned a paper-napkin idea into a fintech product used by 18 million people. At StubHub/eBay, he helped scale global marketplaces. Now, as VP Product (Growth & Incubation) at GoFundMe, Hai Habot is reshaping the giving economy—proving generosity can be productized, operationalized, and scaled. Hai and Haggai Klorman Eraqi unpack how to build like a startup inside very large comp...

A roof that gets colder under sunlight. A paint that cools a building without electricity. A startup that turned a laser-lab theory into a factory product sold to Amazon , Volkswagen , and AB InBev . That’s not sci-fi—it’s SolCold , and it’s the kind of “impossible” physics that only becomes real when someone refuses to quit. When Yaron Shenhav was a master’s student in electronic engineering, he...

Walk into a chicken hatchery that hums like a data center. Engineers aren’t checking feed—they’re tuning frequencies that tilt hatch rates toward hens and save billions in waste. A few kilometers away, a stadium tech lets people with hearing loss sit anywhere and hear perfectly through their own phones. In a care home, adaptive music calms dementia patients enough to reduce medication . That’s not...

Before ARYA, Offer Yehudai had already built and sold two adtech companies ($86M, then $650M). With co-founder Tomer Magid, he launched a premium couples-wellness concierge—part human, part AI—that tens of thousands of U.S. couples now pay for monthly. They charged from day one and, using a no-code MVP (Typeform/Airtable/SMS), hit $1M ARR before writing a line of code. That traction grew into doub...

When Dan Comyns ran product & growth at Nexar, he helped turn “try-before-you-buy” from a risky idea into a repeatable system—and learned a simple truth: conversations beat campaigns. A scrappy experiment calling shoppers who’d abandoned checkout crushed every benchmark. That insight became Sellence : an AI sales OS that lets B2C brands talk 1:1 with every interested buyer (SMS/WhatsApp), foll...

When most founders talk “hard ops,” they don’t mean motorbikes, canoes, and villages without roads. Abigail Urey , Co-Owner of LIB Solar , does. Over the last six years, her team has become Liberia’s largest solar provider—operating in all 15 counties and serving 30K+ households and small businesses —by blending rigorous finance with on-the-ground ingenuity. Abigail walks us through the real work:...

Before Zoog was an app, it was a bet: kids light up when Grandma’s the hero . Yoav Oren had the track record to try—opened China for Similarweb, closed landmark enterprise deals, produced Netflix’s Krav Maga episode, then got tiny Zoog onto Snap’s Camera Kit next to Disney. DreamWorks and Paramount followed. $1M+ ARR. 20,000+ five-star reviews. Two-minute, AR-powered stories that put family in the...

Bill Gallagher has spent years inside the rooms where companies either stall—or break through. As the founder of ScalingCoach.com , he’s coached CEOs and leadership teams to replace chaos with a repeatable rhythm, set priorities that stick, and build companies that scale without the founder carrying everything on their back. In this episode, Bill sits down with Haggai to tell the story behind that...

Eyal Karban has operated at a scale most investors never see: 2,000+ residential deals across Las Vegas and Phoenix and roughly $1B in transactions —with a playbook built on discipline, data, and transparency . This episode is the story of how that playbook was forged. Eyal walked into the wreckage of 2008, learned auctions from the ground up, and then built the systems that make speed possible: a...

If you’re a parent, you’ve probably heard of Nanit —the category leader that turned baby sleep into a measurable, improvable science. Co-founded and led by Assaf Glazer , Nanit became a unicorn and scaled to nine-figure annual sales , backed by Cornell, Technion, and dozens of peer-reviewed studies. Along the way, Assaf raised from top investors (including Upfront/Mark Suster), shipped brutally ha...

Esther Mendlowitz had done it all—built companies, led teams, poured everything into her work. And yet…It always felt like a mess. Smart, passionate people pulling in different directions. Meetings that solved nothing. Operations that broke every time the company grew. Eventually, she had to ask herself: “Is this just what entrepreneurship is supposed to feel like?” The answer came when she discov...