Uri Levine was born in 1965 in Israel.
Levine is a serial entrepreneur. He is co-founder of Waze, the world's largest community-based driving traffic and navigation app, which was acquired by Google for $1.1 billion in 2013, and former board member and investor in Moovit, which was acquired by Intel for $1 Billion in 2020.
Mr. Levine is a founder, investor, Chairman or Board Member in several startups, which usually are intended to disrupt inefficient markets and improve under-functioning services. He focuses on solving BIG problems and saving consumers time and money while empowering them and changing the world for the better.
Mr. Levine has been in the high-tech business for the past 30 years, half of them in the startup scene.
Earlier in his career, he served as an Independent Strategic Consultant and as the Vice President of Marketing at Openwave (OPWV). Before that, he held senior engineering and product management positions in Celltrex and Comverse.
He is a BA graduate in Tel-Aviv University. Before attending University, he served in the Israeli army at special intelligence unit 8200.