Episodes

  • Oracle SVP Leah Yomtovian talks tech, AI, and how big companies stay innovative

    Oracle SVP Leah Yomtovian talks tech, AI, and how big companies stay innovative
    Nov 13 2024
    This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Oracle's Senior Vice President, Partner and Operations Strategy, Leah Yomtovian.

    Leah shares what drew her to tech, and how she ended up at Oracle. She will also talk about Oracle's transition from a product-oriented to a service-oriented company, and what the company's part is in the artificial intelligence boom.

    Leah and Eve will talk about how large companies view and advance innovation and how they work and interact with smaller startups.

    Leah will also touch on her experiences as a woman in tech, and share tips for women interested in the field. She will talk about Oracle's commitment to Israel - where it comes from and what it means.
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    45 mins
  • Building AI Together: Investor-founder dynamics with Qodo and TLV Partners

    Building AI Together: Investor-founder dynamics with Qodo and TLV Partners
    Nov 6 2024
    This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews generative AI coding platform Qodo's CEO and co-founder Itamar Friedman and Venture Capital firm TLV Partners, Partner Brian Sack.

    Eve, Brian, and Itamar will discuss what makes a good investor-founder relationship and what the most important parts of Brian and Itamar's relationship are.

    They will share red and green flags for investors and founders to look out for when exploring work together. Itamar will explain how Qodo uses AI to help developers write quality code and the future of AI for coding. He will also talk about the relationship between innovation and academia.

    Brain will talk about what makes early-stage startups a different kind of challenge and opportunity for investors, and what he likes about this.
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    53 mins
  • Aardvark tech track gives gap year students an opportunity to take part in the start up nation

    Aardvark tech track gives gap year students an opportunity to take part in the start up nation
    Oct 28 2024
    On this week’s episode of Inside Israeli Innovation, this week's hosts Corey Tusak and Ellie Esquenazi take a deep-dive into Aardvark Israel’s Tech Track.This gap-year program specializes in preparing students for the Israeli technology industry.

    During their 9 month-long stay in Israel, students on the Tech Track spend one semester taking computer science courses, where they learn to code in various programming languages. During their second and final semester, participants work as interns at different startup companies and tech businesses in Israel.

    They utilize their coding expertise at these internships and are able to become fully integrated into the Israeli workforce.

    Within the episode are interviews with Eitan Kiperman, Aardvark’s Tech Track coordinator, Maya Michaeli, a current student on the program, and Emily Poltrack, a former participant in the Tech Track.

    These three individuals share their thoughts on Aardvark’s program as well as provide insight into their personal experiences while on the Tech Track.

    Michaeli explains the computer science course Aardvark Israel offers through the Tech Track as well as the tours she has been on, exploring Israeli startups.

    Poltrack recaps her work as an intern at Anima Biotech, an Israeli company that specializes in AI tracking technology with the goal of photographing mRNA lifecycle images.
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    34 mins
  • What is going on with Israeli innovation this week, and how is it impacted by the war?

    What is going on with Israeli innovation this week, and how is it impacted by the war?
    Oct 16 2024
    Guest hosts Ellie Esquenazi and Corey Tusak, discuss some of the innovative stories breaking this week with a key theme of Israeli resilience and effects of the Israel-Hamas war.

    Among other exciting articles, Corey and Ellie share the story of Noga Sela Shalev, founder of Fresh Start - a food technology incubator, who was evacuated from her home in Kiryat Shmona and discuss how the war has affected her business and other startups, according to Calcalist.

    Corey and Ellie also discuss the influx of startup Israeli business migrating to Miami following the Israel-Hamas war. The city has become a booming spot for business people and entrepreneurs alike, Calcalist highlights.

    They also discuss the Israeli state-owned company, Rafael Advanced Defense System Ltd after their announcement of their latest defense capabilities.
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    16 mins
  • Meet the entrepreneurs supporting families and breaking stigma surrounding mental health

    Meet the entrepreneurs supporting families and breaking stigma surrounding mental health
    Oct 10 2024
    This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Ravid Granov, the founder of Mami, a podcast aiming to support families handling the mental illness of their loved ones.

    Ravid will explain where the idea for the podcast came from, and why she and her team are seeking to support the families of those dealing with mental health issues.

    She will talk about cycles of shame and stigma that surround mental health, how they created challenges for Mami's team, and how Mami is seeking to break these cycles.
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    39 mins
  • How is Spines using AI to revolutionize publishing?

    How is Spines using AI to revolutionize publishing?
    Sep 25 2024
    This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Yehuda Niv, Founder & CEO of Spines - an online book publishing platform.

    Spines creates another option for authors beyond traditional, untraditional, and self publishing options, and it uses AI to drastically shorten the timeline for publishing a book or audiobook. Yehuda will share how he came up with the idea for Spines, and how he took it from an idea to a business. He will share about the importance of publishing and, in a broader sense, of storytelling.

    As an entrepreneur who has founded companies by bootstrapping and by fundraising, Yehuda will also compare these two paths and share which works best for him.
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    52 mins
  • Who is Cloudinary and how are they redefining standards for images used online?

    Who is Cloudinary and how are they redefining standards for images used online?
    Sep 12 2024
    This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Tal Lev-Ami, co-founder and CTO of Cloudinary - a technology company that provides cloud-based image and video management services.

    Tal will tell us about how Cloudinary is using generative AI to help companies use images in a better way. He will also touch on the potential risk of using gen AI with images and how these risks can be minimized.

    He will tell us about how the company is defining the standards of how images should be used on the web - literally, through work with the International Organization for Standardization.

    Tal will talk about why Cloudinary bootstrapped rather than raised funds in its earlier stages and what advantages this had for the company. He will also talk about the company's values and culture and how they make Cloudinary a better company.
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    55 mins
  • Making Microsoft Excel better? Datarails is using AI to change finance analytics

    Making Microsoft Excel better? Datarails is using AI to change finance analytics
    Sep 5 2024
    This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Didi Gurfinkel, Co-Founder & CEO of Datarails - an AI-powered financial planning and analysis platform. Datarails is using AI to change how Microsoft Excel users do financial planning and analysis.

    Didi will tell us about why the Datarails founders decided to work to fix a problem arising from the use of a product rather than trying to replace it. He will also explain the importance of product-market fit and tell us about Datarails' journey to find it.

    He will talk about how he fell in love with coding and how this sent him on his path to tech, and he will touch on his education - why he dropped out of high school, and why this didn't hold him back.
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    50 mins