Startup Grind Tel Aviv Hosts Gil Ben-Artzy (UpWest Labs)

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Gil Ben-Artzy, UpWest Labs

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Gil is passionate about helping Israeli entrepreneurs that build their startups in Israel and Silicon Valley, offering advice and sometimes a spot on his living room couch.

In 2005, he joined Yahoo!’s Corporate Development group, working on strategy & acquisitions, as well as managing the relationships with the Israeli ecosystem of investors, entrepreneurs and startups. In this role, he led the acquisition of Yahoo!’s first Israel-based startup (FoxyTunes) and helped open the company’s first R&D center in Haifa. Gil then transitioned to the role of VP of Operations Management, driving the business aspects for the tech infrastructure organization.

He left Yahoo! during the summer of 2011 to dedicate his time to his new venture, UpWest Labs (http://www.upwestlabs.com/), a Palo Alto-based accelerator program that has invested in close to 50 Israeli startups. To date, UpWest Labs graduates have raised more than $50M in funding with an average seed round of over $1M per company; Over 70% of the startups have raised follow-on funding, with a few of them acquired by the likes of Google, Priceline and Gartner.
Gil was previously a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in New York, where he advised Fortune 500 companies. He completed his BA in Economics & Business Administration at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his MBA at The Wharton School in the University of Pennsylvania.

Agenda

6:00 Networking and Food
7:00 Fireside Chat
8:00 Networking

Hosted By Shahar Matorin, Tel Aviv Chapter Director

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Shahar Matorin has been involved in Israeli High-Tech, Internet and Digital industry since 1999 and has led lthe business development in InteGreat established 5 years ago. With a group of professional experts, Shahar can lead entrepreneurs from an idea to Worldwide Product Marketing. Shahar chooses to advise, accompany and assist entrepreneurs and mature companies in their way to the digital world since that is what he does best.
Email: Shahar@startupgrind.com | Twitter: @StartupGrindTEL (http://twitter.com/StartupGrindTEL)

Hosted By Ram Yonish, Co-Director StartUp Grind TLV

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Results driven person with a passionate of helping others. Today serves as VP sales and marketing of a large software services company (1300 employees) and a proud member of StartUp Grind. formerly owner of SureTest LTD and a partner of a startup called ProductionMap. A dreamer but yet with two solid legs in the ground. positive thinker and a believer. Most of all a proud father of 3 kids. I’m here to help any Israeli entrepreneur with my networks globally and vice versa for any entrepreneurs/ investor looking for Israeli startup’s and technology. “Believe you can and you are halfway there” (Theodore Roosevelt)
Email: Ryonish@startupgrind.com | Twitter: @@r_yonish (http://twitter.com/@r_yonish)

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