Eran Shir

Eran Shir is a serial entrepreneur and investor, currently trying to change the world for the better at Nexar. Previously, he was Entrepreneur In Residence at Aleph, a VC out of Tel Aviv where he was focusing on fields like Internet of Things, big-data, cryptocurrencies, marketplaces and networks, and the way they disrupt important markets like healthcare, transportation, education, manufacturing, and finance. Before Aleph, he ran the global Creative Innovation Center for Yahoo!, where he was responsible for Yahoo!'s ad creative technologies strategy and portfolio, as well as the development of its next-generation ad creative personalization platform. He joined Yahoo! in Oct. 2010 when Yahoo! acquired Dapper, dynamic ads and semantic web startup he co-founded in 2007. In his past, Eran 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. He is passionate about building great products, teams, and companies that aim to change people's lives for the better.