Yoram Nelken

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Mr. Yoram Nelken is a Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer at Exceed. Mr. Nelken co-founded and served as Board Member & Chief Technology Officer at Demetria. Mr. Nelken serves as General Partner at Cognitiv Ventures. He serves as Executive, Venture, and Strategy at XponentialWorks. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer at InMe. He is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with over 18 years of leadership experience driving startup companies from concept to success. With his deep experience in the trenches building multiple businesses from the ground up and through their exits, he has emerged as a highly sought-after Chief Executive Officer coach, mentor, advisor, and investor. Originally from Jerusalem, he founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at Banter, a pioneering natural language processing company. He successfully established the company as a leader in the call-center space, serving some of the largest US banks (including Wells Fargo and Bank of America), until its acquisition by IBM. After selling Banter in 2004, he joined the Mayfield Fund in Silicon Valley as entrepreneur-in-residence, where he provided deal flow and due diligence support as well as portfolio mentoring. In 2005, he founded TimeBridge, a pre-cloud calendar management assistant, an early example of successful viral promotion within a corporate setting. With a corporate user base of millions of users, TimeBridge was acquired by MerchantCircle. He also co-founded Local Sciences, a local data-as-a-service provider, successfully engineering its pivot to become a broad data collection and analysis technology. Local Sciences quickly became the largest accurate local database for service businesses in the Health & Beauty and Automotive verticals, providing data to YP, Groupon, and other industry leaders. He returned to Israel and joined OurCrowd after living in the Bay Area for 14 years.