Uri Levine

Uri Levine is a passionate entrepreneur and disruptor, a 2x 'unicorn' builder (Duocorn), and author of Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution – A Handbook for Entrepreneurs.

He is co-founder of Waze in 2007, the world's largest community-based driving traffic and navigation app, which Google acquired for $1.1 billion in 2013, and then Moovit, 'the Waze of public transportation, which Intel acquired for $1 Billion in 2020.  

Uri has been in the high-tech business for the last 40 years, more than half of them in the startup scene, 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 "building unicorns”. 

Levine is a BA graduate from Tel-Aviv University. Before attending University, he served in the Israeli special intelligence unit 8200 as a software developer. In his public activity, he serves on the board of trustees at Tel-Aviv University.   

Academic Experience

• Professor of Practice, IE University, Spain, 2025 – Present

• Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship, IE University, Spain, 2023 – Present 

Academic Background

• BA in Economics, Tel Aviv University, Israel

• Computer Science Training at IDF, Israel

Corporate Experience

• Author of the Book Fall in Love with the Problem, not the solution (Enamorate del Problema, no de la solucion), published in 2023,  2021 – Present

• Co-Founder and Chairman at Pontera, 2012 – Present

• Co-Founder, Chairman at Oversee, 2014 – Present 

• Co-Founder & Chairman at Refundit, 2018 – 2023

• Director at SeeTree, 2018 – Present

• Co-founder and chairman at Fibo, 2019 – 2024

• Director at Dynamo, 2018 – Present

• Director at Kahun, 2019 – Present

• Chairman at Zoomcar, 2021 – 2023

• Advisor at Pumba, 2021 – Present

• Chairman at Atlantrees, 2022 – Present

• Chairman at Pluro, 2024 – Present

• Advisor at Leadzai, 2024 – Present

• Director at Mywhisky, 2023 – Present

• General Partner at The Founders Kitchen VC firm, 2019 – Present

• Director at HERE Technologies,  2016 – 2020

• Director at INFOSYS, 2020 – 2023

• Director at Moovit, 2012 – 2020

• Director at Engie, 2014 – 2020

• Director at Zeek, 2014 – 2019   and Director at GCNHub, 2019 – Present 

• Director at Livecare (now Clinii), 2019 – 2022 

• Advisor to WeSki, 2016 – Present

• Other older Directorship positions in companies: Dreamzon, Pixtr, Roomer, Spamoff, order.chat  

• Co-Founder CEO, then President and Director at Waze. (my last executive position), 2007 – 2013

• Self-employed, strategic advisors to startups (about half a dozen of startups in Israel), 2004 – 2007

• VP Product and Marketing at Openwave (USA), 2002 – 2004

• VP Business development at CelltreX (my first startup), 2000 – 2000

• Various positions at Comverse Technology, starting as a Software developer, moving to product, marketing and finishing my term there as VP of marketing for Comverse Mobile Internet division. Both Israel and US, 1989 – 2000 

• IDF, software engineer position and an officer, both Israel and US, 1984 – 1989