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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.
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.
Confirmed Founders:
Eran Leib
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.
🙏 Thank You to Our Host Pearl Cohen, an international law firm with offices in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Tel Aviv, London, and Munich. Representing innovation driven companies and their investors, they serve clients worldwide, from Fortune 500 companies to leading academic institutions and promising startups. With professionals coming from a wide variety of academic and professional backgrounds, their team is your partner in the business of innovation.
Topics & Tags
AI
Tech
AI
Tech
Date & time
Apr 29 – Apr 30, 2026
America/New_York
Location
New York
America/New_York
Organised by
Bereisheet Tech (Asaf Wolff)