Ofer Baharav Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, California, Us

* Villa is a popular virtual world creation and collaboration platform in VR, increasingly driven by #GenAI* Over 500,000 active users* Users have the power to create and shape multiplayer interactions in virtual worlds that are multiples more productive than IRL or videoconferencing combined - with immersion, presence, superpowers, thrilling locations, and perks like never before* Optimized to also work well in compute constrained stand alone VR devices like Meta Quest, bringing photorealism to life in VR* Leveraging AI and GenAI, a minute in a VR meeting is 10x more powerful than IRL meetings or Zoom* Using Villa requires zero code or design skills: In a few minutes spawn your metaverse or scan and upload your office. Conduct social or business meetings. Imagination is your single limitation.* 3D Mapping enables business travel worldwide Virtual Reality for indoor spaces* Experiences that leverage photogrammetry, LiDAR, volumetric video, text to speech, text to 3D and a ton of GPT* Automation and optimization in VR of scans, 3D meshes, and display in virtual reality

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Work with founding teams on product strategy, go to market, and product/market fit. Focus on emerging markets and ML/AI integration

São Paulo, Sp, Br

* Brought in and turned around this enterprise SaaS call center voice and analytics platform which was six months away from shutting down when operations were in the red* Managed for high impact * Fixed and scaled existing platform, re-architecting the product on a shoestring budget* From vision to execution, defined and built a new platform that scaled using the best in WebRTC, Ruby on Rails, and Java, to form a unique click-to-call communications product geared for e-commerce sales and customer support calls. Integrated external APIs such as Zendesk and Salesforce. Rigorous piloting and continuous deployment to thousands of users while iterating features and UX/UI based on analytics* Daily standups, weekly sprints and frequent shipping* Agile* Cut back features and costs by 50% by optimizing the product and deprecating services* Reduced customer support tickets by 80% as a consequence of technical improvements and upgrades to the old platform * Reassigned underutilized technical support to help with technical sales, increasing sales by 20%* Hired CFO and delivered KPIs via online company dashboard to track daily progress* Developed enterprise partnerships including Latin America’s largest insurance group, and key telecom operators* Presented at industry events attracting media coverage and demand for a new product* Positioned product as alternative to highly taxed traditional telephony solutions* Raised capital at a crucial time in the company’s development* Exited to a strategic acquirer

San Francisco, Ca, Us

* Created and launched video communications application for professionals within 9 months* Designed and innovated with a new communications product for reconstructing video conversations from asynchronous sources* Strategy, wireframing, prototyping, prioritized features, usability tests* Designed complex CoreOS architecture, hired expert iOS engineers to build in AVFoundation, AVKit, and Core Audio* Negotiated distribution partnerships for alumni network communications at universities * Led operations, BD, marketing, and PR, reaching thousands of users* Built in WebRTC with quality and scale* Originally launched marketplace for buying and selling professional services using live video over Facebook and LinkedIn’s social graphs (like a mobile GLG), product was called VideoVivo. Pivoted to Peer and professional networking after extensive testing and user feedback.* Raised seed round, hired engineers, UX and UI designers, negotiated key partnerships, including with Google * Spoke at conferences and won international competitions

* As Executive In Residence at a prominent Silicon Valley accelerator, was interim CEO to several enterprise SaaS startups* Contract and advisory work for SaaS startups in strategy, operations, raising capital, through to funding and exist events

"Mint for business", XBRL, corporate financial analysis software

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Worked with founders, helped accelerate startups

* Established and managed West Coast office for Brimacomb & Associates, a $30M VC fund and Venture Advisory* Advisory to client CEOs in operations, strategy, and fund raising* Operations: Interim GM for product and operations, built strategy, negotiated complex contracts on behalf of clients

New York, Ny, Us

Lead a small team account executives to sell VentureSource SaaS analytics and services to venture capital general partners, limited partners, investment bankers, corporate development departments, and securities law firms, exceeding quota by 200%

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* Forged all principal business development partnerships, and led company to recognized player in its sector * Managed three business development managers in this high growth startup of 150 employees* Instrumental in raising $42M in three rounds of funding

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Global Business & Entrepreneurship

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Information Technology

Data Science; Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence (Ml/Ai)