Ran Oz

Ran Oz is a serial tech startups entrepreneur. He leads startups thru three IPOs (2 in NASDAQ and one in Europe) and 2 M&As to big US corporate (Microsoft and Arris).
Career
Oz finished his B.Sc in Electrical Engineering in 1990 at the Technion and gets a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University in 1992.
While in the Technion he co-founded Optibase, VCON had an IPO in Europe in late 2000 as well.
He joined the Israeli Intelligence Force in 1992, for 6 years he served as a Project Officer. During the first 4 years Oz served in San Diego, developing a real-time interpretation system for reconnaissance images. During 1996-1997 he lead the internal software team in the Israeli tech VISINT unit.

In 1998, Ran Oz was one of the co-founders of Peach Networks,
In 1999, he co-founded BigBand Networks. In 2004 $25M were fundraised for BigBand Main investors in BigBand were RedPoint and CRV. BigBand had an IPO in NASDAQ ($750M) in 2007. it was sold to Arris in 2011.
In 2012, he co-founded Wochit. Main investors were RedPoint, Marker and GreyCroft. Wochit won the Gutenberg Prize and Digiday’s Best Video Technology Innovation award.
Oz was the Finalist for the 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award.
In 2017, Oz founded EquityX.
Publications
* Network Design For A Multiplicity Of Services (2003).
* The Triple-Play Network Platform (2004).
* The Statistics of Switched Broadcast (2005).
* Advanced Monitoring Of Switched Broadcast Systems (2007).

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