Future-Facing Generative AI

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About Us

D-ID is at the forefront of revolutionizing generative AI-powered interactions and content creation. Specializing in Natural User Interface (NUI) technologies, D-ID’s platform seamlessly transforms images, text, videos, audio, and voice into highly engaging Digital People, offering a uniquely immersive experience. D-ID combines facial synthesis and deep learning expertise to deliver interactive AI experiences in multiple languages, elevating and scaling the way we connect and create in the digital world. The company’s technology provides solutions for businesses specializing in customer experience, marketing, and sales, as well as for content creators around the world. 

 

Trailblazers of Generative AI for 6 years

D-ID was established in 2017 and is backed by tier 1 VCs. More than 150 million AI videos have been produced with D-ID’s user-friendly self-service Creative Reality™ studio and integrations and more than 250,000 developers are building solutions with the D-ID API.  Recent clients include  Deutsche Telekom, PWC, Deloitte, Burda Media, AXA Insurance, and Gameloft, who have used D-ID’s platform to create extraordinary experiences with AI avatars.

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Our Platform

Accessible via a self-service studio, API, or integrations, D-ID’s platforms transform still photos into personalized streaming videos, providing a new interface for businesses to engage with customers. We enable users to generate photorealistic digital humans. as well as animations from text, dramatically reducing the cost and hassle of video production at scale. Customers include Fortune 500 companies, marketing agencies, production companies, social media platforms, leading e-learning platforms, and content creators of all sorts. Our solution is available through a self-service studio, and an API for enterprises, creators, and developers.

Natural User Interfaces

Leadership Team

Gil Perry

Co-Founder, CEO

Gil Perry

Co-Founder, CEO

Gil is the Chief Executive Officer of D-ID. He was among the first developers in Generative AI, working in the space since it emerged in 2014, developing the first algorithm in the world to protect against face recognition technology. Prior to founding D-ID, he served in various technical and business roles in leading global tech companies, including Meerkat / Houseparty, where he was a senior software engineer. 

Gil has served in an elite intelligence unit of the IDF. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, with expertise in computer vision, and Deep Learning.

Sella Blondheim

Co-Founder, COO

Sella Blondheim

Co-Founder, COO

Sella is the Chief Operating Officer of D-ID, leading the operations, product, legal, human resources and financial teams. Prior to founding D-ID, Sella held various management, business and marketing roles in leading global tech companies, including at Natural Intelligence, a global leader in online marketing and among Google’s top ten partners, where he managed eight digit budgets, improving the audiences and products, and increasing ROI. 

Sella has served in an elite intelligence unit of the IDF, where he and Gil first met. Sella holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management, with a specialization in operations management.

Eliran Kuta

Co-Founder, CTO

Eliran Kuta

Co-Founder, CTO

Eliran is the Chief Technology Officer in charge of the company’s technology roadmap. Under his leadership, the company has been granted numerous ground-breaking innovative technologies and patents. Previously worked at Houseparty (acquired by Epic Games) together with Gil Perry. Eliran quickly established the R&D department at D-ID from scratch, attracting and recruiting the top AI and deep-learning experts in Israel. 

Eliran served for 10 years in Israel’s prestigious 8200 intelligence corps unit – as a Captain, he led large teams of engineers. He holds a B.Sc in computer science, and extensive expertise in software engineering, computer vision and machine learning.


Tomer Zuker Headshot

Tomer Zuker

VP Marketing

Tomer Zuker Headshot
Tomer Zuker Headshot

Tomer Zuker

VP Marketing

Tomer Zuker is a highly experienced strategic marketing professional with over two decades of experience in global growth and go-to-market strategy. 

Prior to his current role, as the Vice President of Marketing at D-ID, Tomer served as the Chief Marketing Officer of OPSWAT, a leading provider of critical infrastructure protection (CIP) cybersecurity solutions, and the Chief Marketing Officer of Nintex Kryon, a leading startup in the field of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Process Excellence. 

Tomer also held executive leadership positions at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he oversaw Partner Marketing programs in EMEA, and served as a Business Group Lead at Microsoft and a Business Unit Lead at IBM Security.

Tomer is an experienced public speaker, he is also the co-founder of “Linkers” community, one of the most engaged groups on LinkedIn, with +20,000 members, and the co-host of the podcast Market Trip.

Yaron Bloch D-ID

Yaron Bloch

VP Product

Yaron Bloch D-ID
Yaron Bloch D-ID

Yaron Bloch

VP Product

Yaron is the VP of Product at D-ID, where he leads the product team and oversees the company’s product strategy. 

Previously, Yaron was the Co-Founder & CPO of Skillsup, and the CPO & GM at Wibbitz, which was acquired by Vimeo, and Head of Product Management at AOL On, following 5MIN’s acquisition.

Yaron won several prizes for his work, and wrote a column for a well-known business magazine on creative technologies. He holds a B.Sc in computer science from Haifa University, and an MBA degree from Ben-Gurion University.

Roy Shouchane Blum

Roy Shouchane Blum

VP Finance & Legal

Roy Shouchane Blum
Roy Shouchane Blum

Roy Shouchane Blum

VP Finance & Legal

Roy is the VP Finance & Legal of D-ID and his responsibilities include all aspects of financial management of the company.

In his role, Roy leads and provides strategic financial guidance to the management as well as strategic direction to a global team of talented finance professionals and problem solvers covering, accounting, financial planning, treasury who partner with leaders in the company to execute our growth strategy.

Roy brings to the role over 15 years of financial managerial experience. Prior to joining D-ID, Roy served as VP Finance for Uniper – an Israeli healthtech startup, Director of Finance at Bird Aerosystems and PwC.

Roy is a CPA and holds a BA degree in business administration and accounting and MA in law from the university of Bar Ilan.

Or Gorodissky

Or Gorodissky

VP R&D

Or Gorodissky
Or Gorodissky

Or Gorodissky

VP R&D

Or is a skilled Generative AI researcher and advocate, known for his expertise in delivering impactful products at scale using emerging technologies. With a strong academic background and research publications from his Msc. Computer Engineering studies at Tel Aviv University, combined with practical experience in the Israeli startup scene, including successful exits and M&As, NVIDIA (Mellanox), REFAEL (VisionMap), Or brings a unique blend of theoretical knowledge and hands-on expertise.

Joining D-ID as an AI researcher in 2018,  he now leads the entire R&D department. His team delivered the first Generative AI globally viral product and is consistently viewed as a formidable force in this highly competitive field of Generative AI.

Shiran Mlamdovsky Somech

Shiran Mlamdovsky Somech

Impact Leader

Shiran Mlamdovsky Somech
Shiran Mlamdovsky Somech

Shiran Mlamdovsky Somech

Impact Leader

Shiran Mlamdovsky Somech is a social tech entrepreneur who harnesses generative AI technology for the greater good, creating partnerships across various sectors to spur real social change. By combining her key passions for creativity, innovative technology, and humanity, she utilizes AI’s capabilities to increase engagement, foster empathy, and offer human-like experiences. Shiran is leveraging these superpowers to improve and even save lives.

She has worked on numerous projects that have garnered millions of views and prestigious awards. Her work has been honored by being presented at the UN, UN Women, NATO, the Israeli Knesset, the Brazilian Parliament, and more.

Shiran holds an LLB and LLM from Bar Ilan University’s law school and an EMBA from the esteemed Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

With a commitment to social good and a leadership role in technology, she is continuously striving for a future of impact and innovation.

Igor Hofman Headshot

Igor Hofman

VP Sales

Igor Hofman Headshot
Igor Hofman Headshot

Igor Hofman

VP Sales

Igor Hofman is a leading sales executive with over a decade of experience in Israel’s fast-paced technology sector, Igor’s unique expertise is in building global  sales organizations with focus on large ticket deals and strategic business engagements in global markets. 

Prior to D-ID, Igor served as VP sales EMEA at Katura (KLTR) and was responsible for sales and accounts, Before that, Igor led EMEA sales at the Military Division of the Israeli Space Industry (IAI). 

Igor served 7 years in the Israeli Air Force. Ranked Major, throughout the years, Igor led teams and formations in complex aerial operations as well as instructed hundreds of flight cadets. Igor holds a B.Sc. degree in Economics and management  from Tel Aviv University.

Matthew Kershaw D-ID

Matthew Kershaw

VP Commercial Strategy

Matthew Kershaw D-ID
Matthew Kershaw D-ID

Matthew Kershaw

VP Commercial Strategy

Matthew has a 20-year background in digital media and content strategy, and has developed commercial programmes and services for clients such as LG Mobile, Barclays, Shell, Audi and Samsung.

At MTV, as Head of Digital, he oversaw and launched numerous services including their first streaming on-demand video platform, mobile and social channels. 

With certificates from MIT and Codecademy in AI and data science, he helps businesses identify and exploit the gains created by AI, as well as helping take AI-based businesses into new markets. 

Matthew has a Masters degree from Wadham College, Oxford University in Philosophy & Experimental Psychology.

Yaniv Levi - D-ID

Yaniv Levi

VP Product Operations & Customer Success

Yaniv Levi - D-ID
Yaniv Levi - D-ID

Yaniv Levi

VP Product Operations & Customer Success

Yaniv is a seasoned product executive and public speaker, boasting over two decades of expertise in video and digital audio processing across B2B and B2C companies. He is proficient in managing innovative and successful products, from concept to launch. Presently, Yaniv spearheads product operations, customer success and customer communication efforts at D-ID.

Prior to his current role at D-ID, he served as Vice President of Engineering of the Consumer division in Waves Audio and also as Director of Product Management in Radvision, a leading provider of video conferencing technologies that was later acquired by Avaya. Yaniv holds a B.Sc. degree in Software Engineering from Shenkar College of Engineering.

Members of the Board

Dan Phillips

Dan Phillips

Executive Director / Global Head Venture Capital, Macquarie Group

Dan Phillips
Dan Phillips

Dan Phillips

Executive Director / Global Head Venture Capital, Macquarie Group

Dan Phillips is the Head of Macquarie Capital Venture Capital and has been investing in Tech start ups for over 25 years.

Macquarie Capital Venture Capital focuses on both Venture Capital and Growth Investments for Tech startups with a specific domain focus on Big Data, Analytics and AI. Macquarie Capital Venture Capital has offices in Sydney, Tel Aviv, London and Berlin with a track record of helping entrepreneurs take their businesses global. 

Uniquely Dan lived in China for 4 years and developed a reputation for successfully investing in Chinese Tech startups and an appreciation of the unique challenges and opportunities in emerging growth markets.

Rami Kalish

Rami Kalish

Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Pitango

Rami Kalish
Rami Kalish

Rami Kalish

Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Pitango

Rami Kalish is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Pitango. Specializing in Cyber technology and B2B software companies, Rami has been mentoring young entrepreneurs for decades and helping companies on their growth journeys to IPO’s. Rami has accumulated years of experience as a board member in many companies of which several — such as ForeScout, Radware and Retalix— became publicly traded on NASDAQ and NYSE.

Currently, Rami serves on the Board of Directors of Avantis Team, Browsi, Crbofix, Tylko, D-ID, Indoor Robotics, Perception Point, Salvador Technologies, Patient 21 and Tabit. Previously, Rami served on the Board of Directors of several portfolio companies that went public on NASDAQ, including ITXC, VocalTec, Retalix, Optibase and RADWARE, as well as on the Boards of Optonol (acquired by Alcon), Red Bend Software (acquired by Harman), RocketPlay (acquired by American Gaming System – AGS) and SkyCure (acquired by Symantec).

Prior to founding Pitango, Rami held sales and marketing positions at IBM and senior executive roles at Orbotech.

Mr. Kalish is a member of the Runway Visiting Committee at The Joan & Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute.

He holds a BSc in Industrial Engineering and Information Science from the Technion Institute of Technology.

Manish Agarwal

Manish Agarwal

General Partner at AXA Venture Partners

Manish Agarwal
Manish Agarwal

Manish Agarwal

General Partner at AXA Venture Partners

Manish joined AVP in 2015 and focuses on venture stage investments for the firm. Prior to AVP, Manish held a number of investing, operational and strategic roles primarily within financial services. Manish started his career at McKinsey & Co. where he led client teams in engagements across strategy, corporate finance and operations & technology. Manish earned his M.S. and Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University and B.Tech. at the Indian Institute of Technology. He is currently based in New York City.


Adi Sharabani

Adi Sharabani

Former GM, Symantec Endpoint Security Former CEO & Co-Founder, Skycure

Adi Sharabani
Adi Sharabani

Adi Sharabani

Former GM, Symantec Endpoint Security Former CEO & Co-Founder, Skycure

Adi Sharabani is a world-renowned security entrepreneur with decades of experience in security and research. In his roles he was the CTO of Snyk, a disruptor of the developer security market; the Symantec General Manager running its Endpoint Solutions business including its EPP/SEP, EDR, MTD, EPM and IOT product lines. Adi joined Symantec via the acquisition of Skycure, the leading Mobile Threat Defense company, which he co-founded in 2012. As CEO of Skycure, Adi’s pioneering efforts and thought leadership have helped define the Mobile Threat Defense industry. Prior to founding Skycure Adi was the leader of security for IBM software products. He came to IBM through the acquisition of Watchfire, a market leader in the field of application security, where he built and led its security and research groups.

 

Adi holds more than 25 patents in the security space, and his works, presentations and keynotes are regularly given the highest accolades at prestigious conferences such as RSA. Adi earned a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from Tel Aviv University. Committed to cyber security education, and in parallel to his work in the industry, Adi has been a teacher and education advisor, playing a key role in the vision and implementation of the cyber defense curriculum for high school students in Israel majoring in cyber security.

Advisory Board

Lior Wolf Advisory Board

Prof. Lior Wolf

Deep Learning Researcher, Former Director, Facebook AI

Lior Wolf Advisory Board
Lior Wolf Advisory Board

Prof. Lior Wolf

Deep Learning Researcher, Former Director, Facebook AI

Prof. Wolf is a research scientist in Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and a full professor at the School of Computer Science at Tel-Aviv University. Prof. Wolf’s work has received several awards including the best paper awards at ICANN’16 and at the CVPR’13 workshop on action recognition.

Prof. Wolf has extensive experience in forming, advising and heading R&D at multiple computer vision startups and his research focuses on computer vision and deep learning and includes topics such as face identification, document analysis, natural language processing, digital paleography, and video action recognition.

prof. Adi Shamir

Benny Schnaider

Co-Founder of Qumranet, PentaCom, Salto, P-Cube, Ravello Systems

prof. Adi Shamir
prof. Adi Shamir

Benny Schnaider

Co-Founder of Qumranet, PentaCom, Salto, P-Cube, Ravello Systems

Benny is a high-tech serial entrepreneur. Benny was the CEO and co-founder of five different tech companies all the way to an exit or an IPO (Qumranet, PentaCom, Salto, P-Cube, Ravello systems).

Ofer Ben-Noon

Ofer Ben-Noon

CEO & Founder of Talon Cyber Security

Ofer Ben-Noon
Ofer Ben-Noon

Ofer Ben-Noon

CEO & Founder of Talon Cyber Security

Ofer Ben-Noon is the CEO and co-founder of Talon Cyber Security. Prior to that, he was co-founder of Argus, the global leader in automotive cyber security, which was sold to Continental in 2017. Ofer served as Captain in the IDF Cyber Intelligence Unit 8200 and was a team member of two Israel Defense Prize winning projects.


Prof. Adi Shamir

Prof. Adi Shamir

Co-Inventor of the RSA Algorithm

Prof. Adi Shamir
Prof. Adi Shamir

Prof. Adi Shamir

Co-Inventor of the RSA Algorithm

Prof. Shamir is an internationally recognized cryptographer. He has a number of claims to fame including being a co-inventor of the RSA public-key cryptography algorithm for encoding and decoding messages, co-inventor of a zero-knowledge proof scheme, and a major contributor to what has become known as differential cryptanalysis as well as other significant contributions to computer science.

Debra Farber

Debra Farber

Privacy Tech Expert & Investor at AWS, BigID, Visa, IBM

Debra Farber
Debra Farber

Debra Farber

Privacy Tech Expert & Investor at AWS, BigID, Visa, IBM

Debra Is a globally-recognized Privacy, former head of privacy at Amazon, Security and Ethical Tech Advisor and Principal and Host of The Shifting Privacy Left Podcast. With 17 years of experience managing privacy and data protection issues, Debra has shifted left to work with companies seeking to unlock the value of their data with privacy by design (PbD) strategies, privacy enabling technologies (PETs), and privacy engineering methodologies.

Richard Purcell

Richard Purcell

former Chief Privacy Officer at Microsoft

Richard Purcell
Richard Purcell

Richard Purcell

former Chief Privacy Officer at Microsoft

A recognized expert in information privacy and data protection andMicrosoft’s first Chief Privacy Officer. He has extensive expertise in information privacy and data protection both domestically and internationally. He developed Privacy by 3PT: A Management Model and ACT: A Privacy Education Model.

Dr. Ann Cavoukian

Creator of Privacy by Design; Executive Director of the Global Privacy & Security by Design Centre

Dr. Ann Cavoukian

Creator of Privacy by Design; Executive Director of the Global Privacy & Security by Design Centre

Dr. Ann Cavoukian is recognized as one of the world’s leading privacy experts.. Dr. Cavoukian served an unprecedented three terms as the Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada. There she created Privacy by Design, a framework that seeks to proactively embed privacy into the design specifications of information technologies, networked infrastructure and business practices, thereby achieving the strongest protection possible. In 2010, International Privacy Regulators unanimously passed a Resolution recognizing Privacy by Design as an international standard. 

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