Swap
Aviv Yovel
Engineering and product leader in agentic AI. Co-founder of Vizby, acquired by Swap. Today I work on Swap Discovery.
Experience
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Swap
Oct 2026 – PresentSwap Discovery Tech
Working on Swap Discovery, the AI visibility layer of Swap's agentic commerce platform (1,000+ brands). It shows merchants how AI assistants see them and acts on what it finds.
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Vizby AI (Acquired by Swap)
Feb 2026 – Oct 2026Co-Founder
Co-founded the first platform helping Shopify stores become visible, referenced and recommended by AI search engines. Acquired by Swap Commerce nine months after founding.
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Vona AI (For Posterity)
Apr 2024 – Apr 2026Advisor · Interim CTO
Designed the agentic system and built the founding team as interim CTO, then recruited and advised the incoming CTO and CEO.
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Ark Empowerment
May 2024 – Feb 2026Interim CEO Nov 2025 – Feb 2026
Stepped in as interim CEO to steer the company through its final transaction.
CTO May 2024 – Jan 2026
Built an agentic system for professional services, and founded and led the R&D team.
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Consiglieri
Jun 2023 – May 2024CTO
Advised startups on business and technology transactions from Seed to Series B.
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LetsTok AI
Feb 2023 – Jun 2023CTO
Redesigned the cloud architecture, led the R&D team and set engineering best practices, after earlier tenure as Developer and Tech Lead.
Projects
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AI-based BCI platform that uses LLMs for thought-based computer interaction.
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Generative AI research platform for NASA scientists. 2nd place winner.
Mentorship
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Techstars Tel Aviv
Mentor · CTOs Roundtable leadership, Fall 2024
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B4i – Bocconi for Innovation
Mentor · Evaluating and selecting startups
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YEDI
Mentor · Startup mentorship and lecturing
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Innovation Centre Denmark
Community · Copenhagen & Tel Aviv, Danish Embassy programs
Links
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LinkedIn
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DrivenData · 2nd place
Contact
The best way to reach me is LinkedIn.