Uri Levine (Semblanza)

Uri Levine is one of the most prolific businessmen of now-a-days and is an active angel investor in technology-based companies. Thanks to his extensive and proven experience, Uri is able to give talks that are very appealing to young businesspeople  and businesses, providing them with the recipe for success.

His greatest business successes come in the form of applications aimed at overcoming the inefficiency that affects us daily and making people’s lives easier. Waze, his mapping and navigation app, enables users to avoid traffic jams, and his project FeeX targets the problem of hidden charges in financial services.

During his thirty years in business, Uri Levine has focused on the high-tech industry, and has spent half of that time launching start-ups. He is therefore no stranger to failure, moderate and resounding success, the latter being the case with the creation and development of the Waze application, acquired by Google for over a billion dollars.

Nowadays, he combines his business activities with investing in start-ups. He takes part in innovative projects such as Moovit, Engie and Fairfly.A true entrepreneur who studied Economics at the University of Tel Aviv, he has worked in all possible areas of business, including product development, marketing, business development, running start-ups and providing coaching, above all to CEOs.