Yoni Assia is an Israeli entrepreneur, and Founder and CEO of the social investment network, eToro. Career Assia founded RetailFX, which would later be renamed eToro, with his brother Ronen and friend David Ring in 2006. In 2010, Assia led eToro to release eToro OpenBook social investment platform, along with its "Copy-Trading" feature. The platform enabled investors to view, follow and copy the network's top traders automatically. Under Assia's leadership, between 2007 and 2013 the company raised $31.5 million in four rounds of funding, raising a further $27 million from Russian and Chinese investors in 2014. Assia attained a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Management from the Open University and an M.Sc. degree in Computer Sciences from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. Assia started the Colored Coins protocol in 2013. In May 2017 Assia joined the Bancor Protocol Advisory Board.
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