High Tech On The Low

The tech space abounds with interesting job titles, one such title, and a highly sought-after position is that of the product manager. As those who are in charge of the product trajectory, product managers have the utmost control over a company's development as they decide on key features. Yet, how do you manage a product which is software directed to product managers? Elad Simon, CEO of Craft.io...

As technology evolves, the barrier to access grows and for businesses, this poses a challenge in terms of budgeting for talent and resources. Assaf Egozi, co-founder and CEO of Noogata , is building a no-code artificial intelligence platform that helps businesses assess major pains and applies AI-based models for a solution. As data becomes even more critical to business processes, Assaf sees his...

A special episode from the Momentum Accelerator Startup Competition live podcast studio with my guest co-host, Eran Bracha from the podcast Lo Rak Studentim (Not Just Students). Eran and I talk with some students from the prestigious Reichman University in Herzliya, Israel, a center for technological innovation and known for producing leaders of the future, internationally and in Israel. The two s...

Beyond weird pictures of monkeys and such, NFTs are pushing the frontier of what it means to own digital property, experience community, and join the Web 3.0 ecosystem. Ben Kovalis , founder and CMO of EpoLabs by Art AI, jumped on the NFT bandwagon when he and his co-founder decided to embark on the path of creating an artificial intelligence art generation system based on words people input into...

A special episode from the Momentum Accelerator Startup Competition live podcast studio with my guest co-host, Eran Bracha from the podcast Lo Rak Studentim (Not Just Students). Eran and I talk with some very special people in the Israeli tech ecosystem that are helping to position student entrepreneurs better and redefine their tech journeys. In today's episode, you will hear from 1) Adv. Dan Fis...

Startup investments come in many different forms and are critical resources entrepreneurs can leverage to push their ventures forward. Yet, not all investors are created equal and not all investments are necessarily right for each founder. Renana Ashkenazi, General Partner at Grove Ventures , a leading VC started by Israeli high-tech legend Dov Moran, lays down her criteria for what she believes t...

There's truth in the saying that sometimes coming from outside of a situation gives you added perspective. At other times, familiarity with a specific industry or market actually gives you the ability to come from inside and disrupt. Yariv Omer, co-founder of Reigo Investments , took this approach with his partners when trying to solve longstanding real estate financing challenges. With a high-pow...

Often it is the path we create for ourselves that leads us unexpectedly to some of our biggest accomplishments. Before founding Mon4t, Dr. Ziv Yekutieli, spent many years connecting between neurology and technology, dabbling in music, ex-vivo neural networks, brain signals from epileptic patients, and a PC-based model of the brain. By listening to the challenges neurologists face on a daily basis,...

The holy grail of startup growth is reaching the US market. Yet, so many startups go about it the wrong way, without knowing the market, and end up failing. Ken August , an experienced commercial lawyer and founder of the August Law Group , specializes in helping international startups and other companies to be properly prepared to enter the American market. His piece of advice: do your homework!...

With the world migrating ever more towards a digital reality, SaaS and other cyber companies are being met with increased regulatory oversight. For better or for worse, this is the reality and companies that are audited and shown to be failing in compliance measures will be met with serious obstacles. Meiran Galis, founder and CEO of Scytale , learned from his time at EY Israel just how real this...

Adtech veteran and current President of Martin, Lewis Rothkopf , has long been at the forefront of developing innovative solutions to revolutionize the digital media and marketing space. Yet, in his new venture, he has been pushed to flip his conventional thinking and look to improve advertising through incrementality. As we discuss, Lewis' career has positioned him at the forefront of changi...

Creativity is known for spurring innovation - so how does that translate when you move from comedy television to tech? Eran Fine , TV show creator and director, a serial entrepreneur and currently CEO/Founder of Nanolock Security , says his humor and knack for production gave him the tools to be able to actually view issues from a unique perspective and solve them with disruptive technology. Today...

Early-stage founders and teams are often super concentrated on developing their solutions and products, and rightfully so. Yet, Keren Halperin, VP of People at Swimm.io , warns against focusing solely on progress without the right base. Having developed company culture and worked in human resources with companies at the forefront of high tech, her experience shows her that the people you hire at t...

You may know Amazon as the world's biggest marketplace, but you may not know that it also has another side to its technological prowess, Amazon Web Services. With cloud computing services growing as a trend, enterprises and startups alike are using AWS as a platform to manage their data, workloads, and other assets. Efrat Nir Berger, senior partner solutions architect at AWS, explains how AWS can...

As Ran Korber, CEO and Founder of BreezoMeter , was trying to find a place to settle and raise his family, he wanted to make sure he was doing so in an area that had minimal air pollution. However, he soon found that there was no solution that catered to his need of localized air and climate data. An experienced environmental engineer, Ran set out to build a system that could provide targeted info...

Defining your company's position in relation to your competition is key to create a unique offering that speaks to your client base. As Fiverr's Head of Global Brand, Liron Smadja makes it clear that for every entrepreneur to succeed, you need a solid branding strategy behind your work. Having moved from studying law to animation to tech, Liron draws on a range of experiences that inform his proce...

When Meirav Harel began her career as a developer during the Dot. Com era, she never once imagined her career would take her down the path of becoming one of the leading international fintech authorities. After gaining professional investment skills and leading the development of the award-winning LeumiTrade trading platform for Israeli Bank Leumi, she dove deep into the blockchain and crypto fina...

When developing a technology that flips traditional methods on its head, it starts with a process. See, Know, Guide (SKG) developed by Gal Rotman, one of the co-founders of Sency. Ai , and his team, was the secret sauce to Sency's groundbreaking technology for sports and wellness lovers around the world to receive digital instruction and feedback to improve their game. Now, as one of the most popu...

When entrepreneurs mention 'stealth mode', or the time before their startup goes live to the world, the response is either for people to run away or join in. Ian Sanders is currently working on a groundbreaking startup that has the ability to, WHOA!, not so fast, we still have some time before he launches publicly. Stealth mode carries with it a lot of serious and thoughtful considerations, not th...

It turns out that financial modeling and banking require similar skillsets to what you need as a product manager. At least, that's what Benjamin Franck, Senior Product Manager at Yoobic , found out. Combing through large amounts of data, inferring possible solutions, and developing new ways to express these takeaways, his role as a product manager makes him a key player in the development of Yoobi...

In an era when your network can often make your net worth, how can people work to extract greater value from their connections? Ofir Yogev , Chief Business Officer for Meetengo , came to the conclusion that this value comes from a person-to-person business model, which can be the best foundation for building trust and retention. By helping to facilitate these connections using a novel networking a...

In tech, the industry can often be divided between technical experts in charge of the actual solution development and business professionals who help with the actual go-to-market strategy of the product. As chief engineering officer for Skai (formerly Kenshoo), Nir Feldman has to balance both hats, understanding what clients need for a better product and translating that into actual technical feat...

We all know excel; you may love it, you may hate it, but it's the tool every entrepreneur needs. Manage marketing? Excel. Fix your budget? Excel. Dr. Isaac Gottlieb has taught Excel over the last 15 years to over 30,000 MBA, executive MBA, MS, Ph. D. and undergraduate students at Columbia, NYU, Temple, and other universities. He has conducted numerous corporate seminars in the United States and ab...

New markets are every entrepreneurs' dream. Breaking into a new country, city, or industry, is key for growth, but how you do it is even more important. Kapil Kane, Director of Innovation for Intel China , understands the Chinese and East Asian markets in-depth and sees entering a new market as a special balance. Being able to identify the key players on the ground and how you can fit your solutio...

Most entrepreneurs and startup founders have a dream to be "acquired". That buzzword can often be the driving force behind much of an entrepreneur's decisions, the hopeful exit. I sat down with Jeremy Lipshitz , Director leading the Post-Merger Integration (M&A) team at PWC in Israel and who has had extensive experience in the space, to discuss what many founders may not know regarding the acq...