Gil Elbaz, a renowned technology entrepreneur, and investor, has made significant contributions to the fields of search technology, data analytics, and artificial intelligence. He studied Engineering & Applied Science, Economics at the prestigious Caltech university. Gil began his career as a programmer and DBA at IBM and has since held positions at Silicon Graphics, MicroUnity, Sybase, and Google.

In 2003, Gil co-founded Applied Semantics, which Google later acquired for $102 million. He then founded Factual Inc in 2007, where he served as CEO until its acquisition by Foursquare. As a Co-Executive Chairman at Foursquare, he continues to lead the company's innovation in location-based technology.

Gil Elbaz is also known for his contribution to the development of Common Crawl, a non-profit organization that aims to democratize access to internet information by providing open access to web data. He also served as a board member at X PRIZE Foundation and mobile board member at IAB.

Gil is also actively involved in supporting the entrepreneurial community by founding TenOneTen Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in LA-based startups. Additionally, Gil served as a trustee at the California Institute of Technology, where he studied.

With over 25 years of experience in the technology industry, Gil Elbaz's expertise ranges from database architecture to natural language processing, big data, and machine learning. His entrepreneurial vision and leadership have transformed the landscape of the technology industry.