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It’s 3 a.m., an entrepreneur is staring at the ceiling, wondering if they’ve just made the best—or worst—decision of their life. Welcome to the Aggaeus Podcast, hosted by Haggai Klorman-Eraqi. Here we share the messy experiments, the surprising wins, and the failures that cut deep but leave lessons worth carrying. You’ll get strategies, models, and insights from people in the arena—building, stumbling, and pushing forward.

  1. 6 HR AGO

    Mor Assia: How iAngels Turned “Shabbat Deal Flow” Into 27 Exits & $550M Deployed

    Before Mor Assia ever wrote a term sheet, she already had a fascination with tech companies. As a kid, she’d flip to the tiny “Israelis on Nasdaq” section of the newspaper and track the numbers. At home, dinner conversations were about who founded what, who raised, who exited, and who’s building next. Fast-forward: Mor becomes a Technion-trained engineer, serves in 8200, codes, climbs corporate strategy at IBM/Amdocs… and still, something nags at her. She keeps hearing the same frustration from smart global investors: “We only see Israeli deals after they cross the Atlantic—when the insiders already took the best entry.” It felt like a broken bridge. A market inefficiency. A network problem. So Mor and her partners built iAngels to fix it—starting with a brutal cold start: no platform, no capital flywheel, founders asking “how much can you really commit?”, and a model that didn’t yet exist in Israel. They took risk, stitched supply and demand together, and built what Mor calls “a network of networks”— a global base of ultra-high-net-worth operators and builders. Today, iAngels is an early-stage VC with: • 120+ investments • $550M+ deployed • 27 profitable exits • experience from seed to IPO and public boards In this episode, Mor breaks down what most people don’t see: • Why Israel’s “startup dinner table” culture is an unfair advantage • How iAngels evolved from co-investment into a true early-stage VC platform • What founders misunderstand about dilution vs. partnership • Why “over-engineering” kills startups (especially now) • How AI is rewriting the rules of competition—and what she expects from founders next Check out the full episode notes, transcripts, and all links on Substack: 👉https://aggaeus.com/ SPONSORS - EXCLUSIVE FOR AGGAEUS PODCAST LISTENERS: KARDZ.BIZ BUY 2, GET 3 ON KARDZ.BIZ — UP TO $479 VALUE. AGGAEUSB2G3PREMIUM - for PREMIUM cards AGGAEUSB2G3PRO+ - for PRO+ cards When face-to-face impressions matter, pull out Kardz.Biz, the “business card too good to give away”. Use this link: https://kardz.biz/?ref=yqrmczty BETTER WEIGHT FOR LIFE SAVE 10% ON BETTER WEIGHT FOR LIFE’S GLP-1 PROGRAMS WITH CODE AGGAEUS10 (LIMITED TIME). Better Weight For Life is a transformational weight loss program led by a U.S. board-certified physician—designed to keep it simple: personalized GLP-1 treatment, expert support, and discreet delivery. They offer options including Ozempic®, Wegovy®, Zepbound®, Mounjaro®, plus compounded semaglutide and compounded tirzepatide (eligibility depends on your medical evaluation). Claim the offer here: https://www.betterweightforlife.com/partners/aggaeus CONNECT WITH MOR ASSIA LinkedIn iAngels LinkedIn The best wat to reach Mor is via email, and you can find her email at the end of the episode :) CONNECT WITH HAGGAI LinkedIn FOLLOW AGGAEUS Instagram TikTok YouTube SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Apple Podcasts INQUIRIES 💼 Sponsorships / Business: talktous@aggaeus.com 🎙 Podcast: DM via Instagram DISCLAIMER Some links may earn affiliate commissions. Offers, terms, and availability may change without notice. Aggaeus content is for informational and educational purposes only and should not be considered legal, business, investment, or tax advice. You should conduct your own research and consult qualified professionals before making any decisions. We may feature companies, products, or entities in which Aggaeus, its affiliates, or the author have invested or may invest, or with which they have had, have, or may have a financial, professional, or other relationship.

    1h 14m

  2. 26 FEB

    Dor Skuler: ElliQ’s “AI Grandma Companion” — 80 No’s, NYT Front Page, Real Impact

    After ELLI•Q™ landed above-the-fold on the New York Times front page, Dor Skuler—CEO & Co-Founder of Intuition Robotics—joins Haggai Klorman Eraqi to unpack how you build trust, etiquette, and real companionship with a machine. Dor shares the decade-long journey that started long before Amazon even shipped Alexa, survived 80+ investor “no’s,” and finally created ELLI•Q™, a proactive AI robot designed to reduce loneliness, improve wellness behaviors, and connect families—without turning people into “the product.” If you’re interested in AI, robotics, health, or any mission-driven market, this episode is a masterclass and a must-listen. Check out the full episode notes, transcripts, and all links on Substack: 👉https://aggaeus.com/ CONNECT WITH DOR SKULER LinkedIn Website CONNECT WITH HAGGAI LinkedIn FOLLOW AGGAEUS Instagram TikTok YouTube SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Apple Podcasts SPONSORS EXCLUSIVE FOR AGGAEUS PODCAST LISTENERS: BUY 2, GET 3 ON KARDZ.BIZ — UP TO $479 VALUE. AGGAEUSB2G3PREMIUM - for PREMIUM cards AGGAEUSB2G3PRO+ - for PRO+ cards  When face-to-face impressions matter, pull out Kardz.Biz, the “business card too good to give away”.  Use this link: https://kardz.biz/?ref=yqrmczty INQUIRIES 💼 Sponsorships / Business: talktous@aggaeus.com 🎙 Podcast: DM via Instagram Disclaimer Some links may earn affiliate commissions. Offers, terms, and availability may change without notice. Aggaeus content is for informational and educational purposes only and should not be considered legal, business, investment, or tax advice. You should conduct your own research and consult qualified professionals before making any decisions. We may feature companies, products, or entities in which Aggaeus, its affiliates, or the author have invested or may invest, or with which they have had, have, or may have a financial, professional, or other relationship.

    1h 3m

  3. 19 FEB

    Roi Bar-Kat (Intel Capital Israel): How to Pitch, Build Defensibility & Win in the AI Era

    Roi Bar-Kat leads Intel Capital’s investing in Israel—and he’s helped back companies across AI, deep tech, cybersecurity, and more. In this conversation with Haggai Klorman Eraqi, Roi breaks down what consistently separates the startups that earn conviction (and outcomes) from the ones that don’t: founder quality, storytelling, and defensibility in an AI-accelerated world. We go from Roi’s “non-traditional” path into venture to Intel Capital’s unusually strong model for combining financial discipline with long-term strategic value. Along the way, Roi shares a practical pitching framework, two lists every founder should write, why deep tech is getting even more compelling, and what AI could mean for the next wave of companies. In this episode you’ll learn: • Why Intel Capital shifted toward investing in “the best companies first”—and how that creates strategic value • What makes a founder investable • How AI is reshaping SaaS risk and boosting deep tech opportunity • Why single-founder companies are harder to bet on • What “physical AI” looks like and why it’s defensible Check out the full episode notes, transcripts, and all links on Substack: 👉https://aggaeus.com/ CONNECT WITH ROI BAR-KAT LinkedIn Website CONNECT WITH HAGGAI LinkedIn FOLLOW AGGAEUS Instagram TikTok YouTube SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Apple Podcasts SPONSORS Kardz.Biz — “A business card too good to give away.” INQUIRIES 💼 Sponsorships / Business: talktous@aggaeus.com 🎙 Podcast: DM via Instagram Some links may earn affiliate commissions. Offers, terms, and availability may change without notice. Aggaeus content is for informational and educational purposes only and should not be considered legal, business, investment, or tax advice. You should conduct your own research and consult qualified professionals before making any decisions. We may feature companies, products, or entities in which Aggaeus, its affiliates, or the episode participants have invested or may invest, or with which they have had, have, or may have a financial, professional, or other relationship.

    1h 8m

  4. 6 FEB

    From SafeDK Exit to ClarityQ: Orly Shoavi on PMF, Co-Founders & Trustworthy Data AI

    Orly Shoavi has done what most founders only talk about: built through the “two years in the desert,” found a breakout wedge, and exited—then came back for round two with ClarityQ. In this episode, Orly (Co-Founder & CEO, ClarityQ) sits down with Haggai Klorman Eraqi to unpack the real founder journey: choosing a co-founder like a marriage, surviving the emotional whiplash of acquisition talks, and the moment SafeDK unlocked growth by shifting from “everyone loves it” to “everyone pays.” Then we fast-forward to ClarityQ—the pain Orly felt firsthand at scale: teams drowning in data but blocked by bottlenecked analysts. She explains why GenAI made this problem solvable now, how ClarityQ builds trust (transparency, SQL visibility, human-in-the-loop), and what it means to move from prompt engineering to context engineering. What you’ll learn: How Orly vetted a co-founder—and why alignment beats “perfectly different skill sets”The SafeDK wedge: monitoring SDKs → ad intelligence → explosive demand (and why it started as “just a feature”)The acquisition roller coaster: term sheet, sudden freeze, brutal uncertainty… then a better all-cash offerWhy “waiting on analysts” slows decisions—and how ClarityQ helps teams move fasterHow to trust AI analytics: plans, steps, SQL, guardrails, and analyst verification workflowsOrly’s advice to her younger self: start earlier Check out the full episode notes, transcripts, and all links on Substack: 👉https://aggaeus.com/ CONNECT WITH ORLY SHOAVI LinkedIn Website CONNECT WITH HAGGAI LinkedIn FOLLOW AGGAEUS Instagram TikTok YouTube SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Apple Podcasts SPONSORS Kardz.Biz — “A business card too good to give away.” INQUIRIES 💼 Sponsorships / Business: talktous@aggaeus.com 🎙 Podcast: DM via Instagram Some links may earn affiliate commissions. Offers, terms, and availability may change without notice. Aggaeus content is for informational and educational purposes only and should not be considered legal, business, investment, or tax advice. You should conduct your own research and consult qualified professionals before making any decisions. We may feature companies, products, or entities in which Aggaeus, its affiliates, or the author have invested or may invest, or with which they have had, have, or may have a financial, professional, or other relationship.

    1h 5m

  5. 30 JAN

    Turn Raw Tech Into Revenue: Eugene Buff’s 30-Year Playbook for Open Innovation

    For 30+ years, Eugene Buff has been the behind-the-scenes “bridge” between breakthrough science and the companies that actually bring it to market—from university tech transfer offices drowning in inventions to global corporates hunting for the next edge. He’s a MD/PhD geneticist, a former Harvard Medical School researcher whose papers still get cited… and the rare operator who walked away from NIH funding to pursue commercialization full-time. In this conversation with Haggai Klorman Eraqi, Eugene tells the story of how he realized the Nobel line was “too long,” and reinvented himself as an innovation strategist who helps organizations answer the hard question: Is this worth building—or should we kill it fast? You’ll hear: Why you’re not commercializing inventions—you’re solving problemsThe surprising reason Eugene’s default approach is to try to kill the project What “open innovation” really meansHow strategic partnerships, licensing, sponsored research, and venture differWhen getting a patent is the wrong move If you’re building “deep tech,” spinning out IP, or trying to land a corporate partner without getting crushed by bureaucracy—this episode is for you. Check out the full episode notes, transcripts, and all links on Substack: 👉 https://aggaeus.com/ CONNECT WITH EUGENE BUFF LinkedIn CONNECT WITH HAGGAI LinkedIn FOLLOW AGGAEUS Instagram TikTok YouTube SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Apple Podcasts SPONSORS Kardz.Biz — “A business card too good to give away.” INQUIRIES 💼 Sponsorships / Business: talktous@aggaeus.com 🎙 Podcast: DM via Instagram Some links may earn affiliate commissions. Offers, terms, and availability may change without notice. Aggaeus content is for informational and educational purposes only and should not be considered legal, business, investment, or tax advice. You should conduct your own research and consult qualified professionals before making any decisions. We may feature companies, products, or entities in which Aggaeus, its affiliates, or the author have invested or may invest, or with which they have had, have, or may have a financial, professional, or other relationship. #OpenInnovation #DeepTech #TechTransfer #StartupStrategy #Innovation

    56 min

  6. 23 JAN

    The Brain Twin 🧠: Turning Human Intuition into an AI Layer (with Assaf Horowitz, BrainVivo)

    If you’re building in AI and you think “human cognition” is just more training data, this episode will challenge you. Assaf Horowitz is the Co-Founder & CEO of BrainVivo, a computational neuroscientist working at the edge of sci-fi and enterprise reality: scanning real brains and building “brain twins” — digital models that can predict how a specific expert or audience will feel, value, and decide inside a defined domain. Not a generic model. Not a persona. A measurable cognitive fingerprint. Assaf watched his grandmother—Tova Horowitz, a Holocaust survivor and the smartest person in his world—fade away from Alzheimer’s. The pain wasn’t only losing her. It was watching a lifetime of judgment, perception, and problem-solving disappear with no way to preserve it. That question becomes the company: what if we could capture parts of a mind’s “operating system” — and make it usable? Then it gets wild (and concrete). BrainVivo takes a 45–60 minute MRI session, maps your brain’s wiring (connectome) and activity (fMRI), feeds you controlled stimuli (images, sound, even smell/taste), and trains a “translator” between the world’s inputs and your brain’s internal response. The output is a brain twin that can be tested on new stimuli and used to predict intuition-level reactions. Assaf shares two case studies that make this real: • Cloning expertise: a Michelin-star chef who literally “hears” tomatoes (synesthesia). BrainVivo built a culinary brain twin and hit ~85% accuracy on the gist of his judgments across dozens of dishes—opening the door to scaling founder-level taste and consistency across locations. • Predicting markets & behavior: a project with one of the world’s largest investment banks using digitized audience brains reacting to hourly news headlines, producing a high correlation with the market’s fear index (VIX). • An experiment that beat a gaming company’s internal selection by choosing creatives that dominated click performance. This is a founder conversation about the next AI frontier: not just smarter models, but more human ones. In this episode • What a “brain twin” is—and what it can (and can’t) capture today • Why language is a crude interface for thought, and where LLMs flatten human depth • How MRI + stimuli + an encoding/translation model becomes a usable cognitive agent • Why Assaf believes “NeuroAI” is the next step after LLMs • The ethics: data ownership, anonymization, and why your mind shouldn’t be scraped Check out the full episode notes, transcripts, and all links on Substack: 👉 https://aggaeus.com/ CONNECT WITH ASSAF LinkedIn Website CONNECT WITH HAGGAI LinkedIn FOLLOW AGGAEUS Instagram TikTok YouTube SPONSORS Kardz.Biz – “A business card too good to give away” SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODC AST Apple Podcasts Substack INQUIRIES 💼 Sponsorships/Business: talktous@aggaeus.com 🎙 Podcast: DM https://www.instagram.com/aggaeus/ on Instagram Some links may earn affiliate commissions. Offers, terms, and availability may change without notice Aggaeus content is for informational and educational purposes only and should not be considered legal, business, investment, or tax advice. You should conduct your own research and consult qualified professionals before making any decisions. We may feature companies, products, or entities in which Aggaeus, its affiliates, or the author have invested or may invest, or with which they have had, have, or may have a financial, professional, or other relationship. #NeuroAI #DeepTech #Startups #Cognition #AI

    1h 16m

  7. 6 JAN

    Travel protection that people genuinely ❤️? with Faye Co-Founder Daniel Green

    In this episode, Daniel Green (Co-Founder & CTO) shares how Faye became one of the fastest-growing, most loved travel protection brands in the U.S.—by obsessing over one idea: solve it now. Daniel breaks down the bigger lesson behind that moment: customers don’t want more alerts, dashboards, or “status updates.” They want outcomes. And Faye’s entire product philosophy—from app-first support to proactive flight tracking and instant claim access—was built around delivering calm, clarity, and solutions when travelers are emotional, exhausted, and stuck. What makes this story even wilder? Faye’s first version launched in December 2019 as a predictive travel tool… and then COVID wiped the market overnight. That collapse forced the team to listen harder than ever—and what they heard again and again was simple: “I’d pay 10x if you’d just handle it.” That insight became the turning point. In this conversation with Haggai Klorman Eraqi, you’ll hear: • Why “love” is a serious KPI—even in insurance • The product shift from information → real-time solutions • What a modern travel protection experience looks like: app-first, proactive, instant virtual cards • How Faye recruited senior talent from major industry players before they “needed” them • Daniel’s practical framework for AI: embrace it, measure it, and don’t ship hallucinations into decisions • The founder operating principle that keeps showing up: you don’t know if you don’t ask If you care about product-market fit, customer trust, and building a brand people rally around—this one will stick with you. Check out the full episode notes, transcripts, and all links on Substack: 👉 https://aggaeus.com/ CONNECT WITH DANIEL GREEN LinkedIn Website CONNECT WITH HAGGAI LinkedIn FOLLOW AGGAEUS Instagram TikTok YouTube SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Apple Podcasts SPONSORS Kardz.Biz — “A business card too good to give away.” INQUIRIES 💼 Sponsorships / Business: talktous@aggaeus.com 🎙 Podcast: DM via Instagram Some links may earn affiliate commissions. Offers, terms, and availability may change without notice. Aggaeus content is for informational and educational purposes only and should not be considered legal, business, investment, or tax advice. You should conduct your own research and consult qualified professionals before making any decisions. We may feature companies, products, or entities in which Aggaeus, its affiliates, or the author have invested or may invest, or with which they have had, have, or may have a financial, professional, or other relationship.

    53 min

  8. 30/12/2025

    Bird? Plane? No—It’s Verobotics’ Window-Cleaning Robot | Ido Genosar

    They said it couldn’t be done. So he built a robot and sent it up the side of a skyscraper. No water. No chemicals. Just quiet, climbing machines—methodically wiping down glass and collecting inspection data that building owners have never had access to before. That’s what Ido Genosar and his team at Verobotics are doing. And yes, it looks like science fiction. But it’s already working on real buildings. Ido’s path here? Let’s just say it didn’t start in a robotics lab. It started in the Tel Aviv nightlife scene—selling, hustling, navigating human behavior with the instincts of someone who’s learned to read a room better than most people read books. That same scrappy mindset—figuring things out by feel, not by formula—is what carried him through the hardest category in tech: real-world hardware. In this episode, we go deep on: • Why “physical AI” is having its moment—and why robotics is brutally different from software • What it takes to scale a robot when every building is a different beast • The hidden economics of facade maintenance (and why the labor shortage makes this inevitable) • Japan as a robotics and real estate super-market—and why it’s still hard to crack • How founders earn trust with customers when the bar for robots is higher than for humans Check out the full episode notes, transcripts, and all links on Substack: 👉https://aggaeus.com/ CONNECT WITH IDO LinkedIn Website CONNECT WITH HAGGAI LinkedIn FOLLOW AGGAEUS Instagram TikTok YouTube SPONSORS Kardz.Biz — “A business card too good to give away.” INQUIRIES 💼 Sponsorships / Business: talktous@aggaeus.com 🎙 Podcast: DM via Instagram Some links may earn affiliate commissions. Offers, terms, and availability may change without notice. Aggaeus content is for informational and educational purposes only and should not be considered legal, business, investment, or tax advice. You should conduct your own research and consult qualified professionals before making any decisions. We may feature companies, products, or entities in which Aggaeus, its affiliates, or the author have invested or may invest, or with which they have had, have, or may have a financial, professional, or other relationship.

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It’s 3 a.m., an entrepreneur is staring at the ceiling, wondering if they’ve just made the best—or worst—decision of their life. Welcome to the Aggaeus Podcast, hosted by Haggai Klorman-Eraqi. Here we share the messy experiments, the surprising wins, and the failures that cut deep but leave lessons worth carrying. You’ll get strategies, models, and insights from people in the arena—building, stumbling, and pushing forward.

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    Hosted by Haggai Klorman-Eraqi
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    27
  • Rating
    Explicit
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