Ep29: Tal Ben Shahar | Founder of Happiness Studies Academy, prev lecturer at Harvard University

Ben is the Founder and Managing Partner of Amiti Ventures, a US-Israel venture firm founded in 2010.  Amiti has seeded or been an early-stage investor of Innoviz, Cycognito, NextSilicon, Valens, Vayyar, Demostack, Dataloop, and many more. Previously at AudioCodes (NASDAQ: AUDC), Ben had responsibilities that included M&A, product strategy, product marketing, business development and North American operations. He also acted as a GM of acquired companies among other responsibilities. Ben has an MBA from Georgetown University.

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Avi Shua is the co-Founder and CEO of Orca Security. Avi has more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity. Prior to co-founding Orca Security, Avi was the chief technologist at Check Point Software Technologies and held key positions within Unit 8200, the Israeli NSA. While at Check Point, he built and scaled cybersecurity solutions that continue to protect tens of thousands of organizations to this day. Avi believes that cybersecurity products should always support the organization and not the other way around.

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Ran is the CEO & Co-founder at BreezoMeter. His burning ambition is to improve the health and quality of life for billions of people across the globe by providing accurate and actionable air quality data. As co-founder and CEO at BreezoMeter, he is proud to be able to work towards bringing  dream to fruition each day.

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Matan Bar is the co-founder and CEO of Melio – an accounts payable/receivable solution designed for small US businesses. Before founding Melio, Matan led PayPal’s Consumer Peer to Peer Payments Group globally, responsible for over $50B in payment volume annually. Matan joined PayPal through an acquisition of his first payments company (The Gifts Project) that he co-founded back in 2009 and got acquired by eBay Inc in 2012.

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Inbal has an intensive scientific background with a Ph.D. in bioinformatics at Tel-Aviv University and Post-doc in bioinformatics from Stanford University. She is the Founder of two companies: one in biospecimen procurement and the other in personalized supplement recommendation.

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Luis F Voloch is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder at Immunai, where he is helping bring transformational change to immunology, cancer, science, and beyond. Immunai has a team of over 60 experts in machine learning, software, immunology, and genomics technologies and is focused on mapping and reprogramming the immune system, which has allowed his team to build the largest database for immunological data in the world. Previously, Voloch was the Head of Data Science and Machine Learning at Israel Tech Challenge and worked on a variety of Genomics and AI efforts industry (including Palantir) and at MIT.

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Yuval Cohen is the Founder and Managing Partner at StageOne Ventures, leading investments across multiple investment sectors. Yuval has a track record of two decades in leading the operations of early-stage VCs. Before founding StageOne, he co-founded and managed two corporate VCs as part of IDB (Israel’s largest conglomerate) estimated at $150 Million in the investment portfolio, and was personally involved in early-stage IT investing totaling over $1 billion in exit value. Yuval currently represents StageOne on several company boards including– Otonomo, Silverfort, Minerva Labs, Model9, CommonGround and EyeZon.

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Liron is a 3x entrepreneur and investor with several unicorn exits in Tel Aviv's thriving tech scene. His latest startup, AfterDownload, was acquired by Ironsource after 3 years. He later launched and managed Barclays Bank Accelerator with Techstars in Israel.  Liron enjoys fostering Israel's brightest entrepreneurs in their quest for vision and leadership, together with a group of HNWI, family offices, investment banks, and Venture Capital.  Investments include Ironsource, Fiverr, Armis, Similarweb, and many more.

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