Bereisheet Tech: Pitch. Connect. Elevate.
This is a high-energy evening built around one thing: learning how to pitch—and how investors actually think.
We’re bringing together founders and investors from different stages and verticals to create real cross-pollination, so feedback comes from people you wouldn’t normally get in your day-to-day. The goal is fresh perspectives, not echo chambers.
Selected founders will each have a few minutes to pitch their company, followed by direct, unfiltered feedback from an investor panel.
This isn’t just about showcasing companies. It’s about understanding what makes a compelling pitch, how decisions are made on the other side of the table, and what separates signal from noise.
Whether you’re building, investing, or just want to sharpen your thinking, this is a chance to learn by seeing it live.
Moderator:
Guy Milhalter is a seasoned technology transactions attorney with over 15 years of experience advising clients on complex commercial and licensing deals across a wide range of industries. He counsels clients on cross-border transactions, U.S. market entry, corporate finance matters, and the drafting and negotiation of technology agreements, including SaaS, software licensing, master services, and service level agreements. Guy has led negotiations with Fortune 500 companies, supported M&A transactions and HSR filings, advised on CFIUS matters, and worked closely with clients’ internal teams to align legal processes with sales and operational goals. Guy represents early-stage technology start-ups, publicly traded companies, and multinationals in their technology transactions in a variety of industries, such as data analytics, insurtech, fintech, digital health, healthcare IT, ed tech and ad tech.
Confirmed Investors:
Tobias Citron - Primary Ventures
Tobias joined Primary after helping build Radicle Labs, a private markets research firm spun out of Prehype. He earned his MBA from Wharton and holds an AB in Public Policy from Princeton. Tobias is drawn to founders tackling complex technical problems with elegance and precision, bringing a research-driven mindset to every partnership. Born and raised on the Upper West Side, he's always happy to debate the best pizza places and commiserate about New York sports teams.
Yael Barsheshet - Deep33
Yael Barsheshet is a Partner at Deep33, leading the AI Infrastructure vertical at the $150M fund. Yael is backing founders building the layers that make AI scalable, reliable, and cost-effective in production. Previously, she was a Principal at Hetz Ventures (>$500M AUM), where she led seed investments including Upriver, Aligned, and Majestic Lab. Before VC, she was Director of Product at Zebra Medical Vision (acquired by NNOX). Earlier, she spent 11 years in elite Israeli intelligence units including Unit 8200, finishing as a Cyber Operations Commander (Major), and is a graduate of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program.
Yev Gelfand - Alumni Ventures
Yev Gelfand is a Venture Capital investor at Alumni Ventures, ranked the most active VC firm in the U.S. Previously responsible for Portfolio Monitoring across all 1,600 Alumni Ventures investments, Yev is now dedicated to the Yale funds (his alma mater) and leads the Israel practice.
Prior to joining Alumni Ventures, Yev spent 15 years as a serial innovator at BlackRock. He was part of the original team that seeded PennyMac Mortgage (exited successfully via IPO). He was also a founding member of the advisory group that counseled the Federal Reserve, U.S. Treasury, and over a dozen foreign governments on fiscal and monetary policy. Yev separately founded and led the Risk Advisory practice, which he grew to over $1 trillion in Assets Under Advisory. Internationally, Yev drove the expansion of BlackRock in India — growing the employee base to 1,500 in two years — and the Middle East (Israel and the GCC).
Prior to BlackRock, Yev conceived, prototyped, and patented a new design for the internal combustion engine. Yev received his BA in Economics from Yale University in 2006.
Itay Inbar - Greenfield Partners
Itay Inbar is a Partner at Greenfield Partners, where he leads the fund's New York-based investment team and drives its U.S. expansion. Since joining in 2021, Itay has led several key investments, including Torq, Eleos Health, Goodship, DustPhotonics, Panorays, and others. Before joining Greenfield, Itay was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs as part of the Israel coverage team, where he worked with management teams across sectors on IPOs, M&A, and other private and public capital raises. Itay is a Major (Res.) in the Intelligence Corps of the Israeli Defense Forces, where he was awarded numerous excellence awards for leading innovative research projects.
Gal Noyman-Veksler is a Partner at LionBird, an early stage venture capital firm backing 40+ companies at the intersection of healthcare, AI, and technology across the Israeli - U.S. corridor since 2013. Previously, she built the healthcare division at a boutique AI company and was co-founder and CEO of a startup focused on predicting opioid addiction through continuous brain monitoring. Gal holds a Ph.D. in Neuropsychology and Clinical Psychology, with award-winning research in chronic pain. She is a 40 Under 40 honoree and co-founded the Wartime CEO initiative, which has supported over 300 startups across industries following October 7th. She is a Kauffman Fellow and is passionate about supporting female founders.
Confirmed Founders:
Eran Leib is the Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer of Backline AI, a cybersecurity company pioneering Autonomous Vulnerability Remediation. He is a serial entrepreneur with two prior successful exits: Whitebox Security (acquired by SailPoint) and Apolicy (acquired by Sysdig). Eran is focused on applying autonomous AI agents to solve real operational security challenges, moving from scanning to fixing vulnerabilites at scale.
Backline is helping shape a new frontier in exposure management: preemptive, continuous and dynamic. At the intersection of Dynamic Attack Surface Reduction (DASR) and Agentic Remediation, our platform brings together adaptive protection and active intelligence. We continuously minimize the attack surface, by using autonomous agents that don't just detect or suggest but analyze, prioritize, plan and securely fix vulnerabilities.
Ophir Kagan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kala, and one of the rare founders who didn't just study the problem - she lived it. She is an exited founder and serial entrepreneur, paramedic, clinical researcher and product leader, Ophir brings a background spanning healthcare, pharma, and early-stage tech, shaped profoundly by her own experience navigating serious illness as a patient. That firsthand lens drives everything about how she builds: with relentless focus on the real human being on the other side of the screen, and an unwillingness to settle for solutions that look good on paper but fail people when it matters most.
Kala is a behavioral intelligence platform tackling one of healthcare's most costly and overlooked problems: patient non-adherence. Rather than relying on generic reminders, Kala identifies each patient's unique behavioral persona and dynamically adapts their app experience to match what actually drives them to stay on treatment. The platform predicts and prevents abandonment before it happens, works across any therapy, and delivers pharma companies and insurers something they've never had before - actionable behavioral intelligence that connects directly to clinical and financial outcomes.
Gadi Shenhar, CEO and Co-Founder at Droxi, previously the 3rd employee at Aidoc, and an electrical engineer from the Technion.
Droxi is an AI-powered platform that helps healthcare providers capture, automate, and act on patient interactions to drive better outcomes and reduce burnout. Droxi raised $25M in less than 2 years and already supports a wide range of healthcare organizations across the U.S. https://droxi.com/
Yochai Pagi is the CEO and founder of Psistar (formerly Maverick AI), an early-stage deep-tech AI company developing physics-informed intelligence for critical infrastructure and defense. A Magshimim graduate, former Major in the Israel Air Force, and an MSc in Computer Science, Yochai founded Psistar to tackle a problem he encountered firsthand: critical systems need AI grounded in physics and engineering logic - not probabilistic guesswork.
Psistar (formerly Maverick AI) is an early-stage deep-tech AI company developing the next generation of intelligence for critical infrastructure. We're building two core technologies: a zero-shot foundation model that forecasts the behavior of dynamic systems it has never seen, and a knowledge graph engine that reasons over technical documentation with structured logic - no LLM dependency, no hallucination. Our vision is a world where any operator can understand, predict, and act on complex physical systems with mathematical certainty. Still in active research, we're working with Israel Electric Corporation, Siemens Energy, DDR&D, Data centers and more. For human AI collaboration where is really matters.
Chen Rosen is a co-founder of AIR EV and the creator of the unique aerodynamic concept behind the AIR ONE eVTOL aircraft. He has led the development of novel aircraft configurations with a strong focus on simplicity, safety, and practical operability, guiding ideas from early concept through advanced design stages.
AIR EV is a dual-use aerospace company developing a fully electric, vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) platform built around a modular architecture that serves both unmanned cargo missions—across civilian and defense applications—and a two-seat piloted aircraft. The company’s novel configuration emphasizes simplicity, reliability, and ease of use, enabling scalable operations and reduced system complexity compared to traditional eVTOL designs. AIR is paving the way to expand the personal aircraft market dramatically by lowering barriers to entry, making flight more intuitive, affordable, and practical for a much broader population.
Keren Fanan is the co-founder and CEO of Myop, a platform that lets product teams vibe-code and ship frontend inside production software, without engineering dependency. Before Myop, Keren served as VP of Product & Monetization at Moon Active and as GM & CRO at Gett. She brings over 15 years of experience scaling startups, launching strategic partnerships, and driving profitability. Keren is a passionate advocate for women’s inclusion in tech and has served as a board member at Women in Tech Israel (WIT) for the past five years.
Myop lets non-technical builders vibe-code frontend experiences directly inside production apps — with a pluggable architecture that keeps everything safe, PR-free, and fully isolated from the core codebase. Myop's containerized approach lets product, design, and marketing teams work independently using any AI coding tool or Myop's own agent, breaking AI output into modular, safe pieces that can ship to real users at scale. Teams using Myop cut their full delivery cycle (not just coding) by 4.6x, with builders making UI & UX changes, running A/B tests, and launching in-app campaigns on their own timeline, engineering-free. Myop bridges the gap between fast-changing AI coding and the complexity of live, scaled software.
Ronel Veksler, MD, PhD, is Co-Founder & CEO of Promise Bio, building the first AI-powered epiproteomic platform for precision medicine in immunology.
Before co-founding Promise Bio, Ronel developed mission-critical algorithms for complex defense systems, trained as a physician-scientist, practiced medicine, and led product at a precision oncology startup.
Promise Bio is building the first AI-powered epiproteomics platform for precision immunology—replacing trial-and-error treatment in immune-mediated diseases, where each wrong decision can cost up to $18K per patient annually and drive billions in avoidable harm.
By profiling over 60 post-translational modifications, combined with the world’s largest data lake of its kind, Promise Bio uncovers disease biology invisible to other methods to guide treatment selection and power data-driven drug R&D.
Rooted in breakthrough science from the Weizmann Institute, the company is redefining how therapies are developed and matched to patients.
Matan Edvy is a serial entrepreneur with a background in complex systems and aviation technology, where he previously founded companies in the unmanned aircraft sector. A distiller and winemaker by heritage, Matan founded Verstill to dismantle the capital and time-intensive barriers of the $500B+ spirits market. By applying deep-tech principles to traditional production, he transitioned Verstill from a technological hypothesis to a patented, fast growing platform.
Verstill is a fast growing spirits technology company transforming how brands bring spirits to market by shifting the industry from passive sourcing to active creation. Verstill's proprietary platform allows brands to capture additional revenue and higher margins through bespoke product differentiation and rapid time-to-market.
Beyond new product development, the Verstill platform offers powerful loss mitigation and upcycling capabilities, turning inventory inefficiencies into premium, revenue-generating assets. By decoupling quality from age, Verstill empowers global brands to innovate with agility, providing a scalable, data-driven alternative to the constraints of traditional legacy production.
For two decades, the world knew me as "The Mentalizer", an expert in human behavior who could predict thoughts on the world’s most prestigious stages. But while others saw magic, I saw patterns. I realized that if you could decode the psychology of a single mind, you could engineer the commerce of a billion.
I didn't move to New York to perform; I moved to build the invisible infrastructure for the $1.2T social commerce economy. I became obsessed with a fundamental flaw: brands were matching with influencers based on "vibes" and "vanity metrics" while ignoring the only variable that creates a unicorn - SKU-level transaction data.
So, I built Logie.
Logie AI: The Stealth Infrastructure of Social Commerce While the rest of the industry guesses at "creator vibes," Logie AI built the insurmountable data moat. We are the autonomous operating system that replaced manual influencer marketing with programmatic execution. We don't match brands with influencers based on followers or likes; we match SKUs with transaction data.
Our core engine—trained on a proprietary dataset of over $2.5 Billion in verified, SKU-level GMV from Amazon and TikTok Shop—predicts product-market fit before a campaign even begins. Logie automates the entire lifecycle: predictive matching, physical sample logistics, content verification, and closed-loop sales attribution.
For Retail/CPG brands and Amazon FBA sellers, we are the difference between waiting weeks for coverage and dominating the product carousel in days. We didn't just automate an agency process; we engineered the infrastructure required to scale social commerce mathematically.
Don't wait to discover the asset that's already automating your competition. Meet the team behind the $2.5B moat.🙏 Thank You to Our Host Pearl Cohen
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