Uri Levine
Uri Levine (http://urilevine.com/) is a passionate serial entrepreneur and disruptor. He co-founded Waze, the world's largest community-based driving traffic and navigation app, with more than 500M drivers around the globe, which was acquired by Google on June 2013 for more than $1.1 billion.
Levine is an entrepreneur, heading “The Founders Kitchen”, a company-builder fund, serving as Co-Founder and Chairman of FeeX, FairFly, Refundit, & Fibo. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Moovit, Seetree, LiveCare, HERE Technology & Dynamo.
Levine’s vision in building startups is specifically intended to disrupt inefficient markets and improve under-functioning services, with a focus on solving “BIG problems” and saving consumers time and money, while empowering them and changing the world for the better.
Uri has been in the high-tech business for the last 30 years, half of them in the startup scene, and has seen everything ranging from failure, middle success, and big success.
He is also a world-class speaker on entrepreneurship, disruption, evolution vs. revolutions of markets, mobility and startups. Motivated to encourage the next generation of thinkers and innovators, he also leads an academic workshop entitled “How to Build a Startup”, aimed at undergraduate and graduate-level business students.
Levine is a BA graduate in Tel-Aviv University. Before attending University, he served in the Israeli army at special intelligence unit 8200.
In his public activity he serves in the board of trustees at the Tel-Aviv University. He also mentors young entrepreneurs at the Zell Entrepreneurship program at IDC Herzliya.