Moran Bar

Nothing moves faster than AI nowadays. But while we were busy perfecting our prompts, the technology quietly transitioned from answering questions to executing them. For the last two years, the conversation has been dominated by AI chatbots—reactive tools used to summarize meetings and polish slide decks. We treated them like digital interns, and in that world, the biggest risk was a hallucination or a leaked prompt. But the “Chatbot Phase” was just the warm-up.

This is the story of how one major pivot helped CrowdX land the exit Today CrowdX Co-Founders Gil Friedlander, Amit Lubovsky and Ori Goshen announced Cellwize’s purchase of their startup. While the sum of the deal was undisclosed, CrowdX has raised over $4 million from prominent funds and investors like Janvest, Pix Vine Capital, The Time incubator, TASC, the angel Don Perrin, who was also an angel investor in Zipcar, Maxfield Capital and AltaIR VC to date.

For the first time, Zohar Gilon discusses his portfolio – which includes 40 exits – at length. In this personal interview with the Israeli angel investor, he shares what he would need to know if you pitched your company to him – an opportunity that would probably only happen once Zohar Gilon has one of the more interesting career stories in the world of Israeli startups and investments.