On Tuesday night, after 3 months in Syracuse NY, GENIUS NY pitch competition took place. Civdrone won $500,000 and are very proud of this achievement, CEO Tom Yeshurun stated. "These last few months were very valuable, eye-opening and shaped our value proposition. We conducted more than 40 face to face meetings with professionals in the field, and [...]
Dr. Yitzhak Kohavi received his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the joint program of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and the University of Haifa (2005). He is a Certified Public Accountant (1994) with vast experience in public companies.
Omer Ben-Porat is a 4th-year PhD student in the Industrial Engineering and Management faculty of the Technion, working with Professor Moshe Tennenholtz. Omer’s research interests lie in the overgrowing intersection of Game Theory and Machine Learning. In his PhD, Omer focuses on market-oriented Machine Learning.
Dr. Yossi Dashti holds a B.Sc. in Computer Information Systems (U. of San Francisco), an MBA in Information Technology (U. of California, Irvine), and a Ph.D. (Ben Gurion U.). His work and research focus on value creation of innovation entrepreneurship, success factors of high-tech startups, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As), exit strategy, and the role of business networks.
