Koren Gilbai is an investor at founders-fund, the San Francisco venture capital firm. Gilbai was an init.inc intro source/contact (CRM status: Lost; intro via Philip Bogdanov).

Background

  • Role: Investor at Founders Fund, on the team page; LinkedIn lists the role as “Investor at Founders Fund” since January 2024. Some profiles describe the role as Associate / Summer Associate. ^[single-source]
  • Firm: Founders Fund — SF-based VC founded 2005, backing companies building revolutionary technologies (portfolio includes SpaceX, Stripe, Palantir, Figma, OpenAI).
  • Focus: Has been associated with Founders Fund’s coverage of Israeli investments and participated in a 2024 Founders Fund roundtable on the Japanese market with partner Sean Liu in Tokyo.
  • Prior experience: Studied Computer Science (Systems track) at Stanford University; earlier served in Israeli (IDF) cybersecurity and did security / vulnerability research at Google. ^[single-source]