Eran ShirFounder

Israel - ND

I am a serial entrepreneur and investor, currently trying to change the world for the better at Nexar. Previously, I've been Entrepreneur In Residence at Aleph, a VC out of Tel Aviv where I've been focusing on fields like Internet of Things, big-data, crypto currencies, marketplaces and networks, and the way they disrupt important markets like healthcare, transportation, education, manufacturing, and finance. Before Aleph I ran the global Creative Innovation Center for Yahoo!, where I was responsible for Yahoo!'s ad creative technologies strategy and portfolio, as well as the development of its next generation ad creative personalization platform. I joined Yahoo! in Oct. 2010 when Yahoo! acquired Dapper, a dynamic ads and semantic web startup I co-founded in 2007.

In my past, I was a physicist, focusing primarily on complex systems and complex networks, and an Internet researcher, founder of the DIMES Internet research project, and Cogniview, a machine learning startup.

I am passionate about building great products, teams, and companies which aim to change people's life for the better.

Expertise and interests: Internet of Things, crypto-currencies, machine learning and big data, semantic web, complex networks, Web & mobile services, personalization and search engines, digital marketing.