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Faculty Alumni Dean Leitersdorf and Ido Gonen Lead the List of Ground breaking Companies in the Field of Artificial Intelligence
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

The list of the 60 most important new companies in the world in the field of AI, presented by the Greenfield Partners fund, was presented at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference held in San Francisco. The total value of the 60 companies on the list is approximately $3 billion.

Dr. Dean Leitersdorf serves as CEO and co-founder of Descartes, a company that develops a platform that reduces the training and running processes of AI models. The model that Descartes developed to demonstrate its capabilities shows the creation (genrot) of a video in the field of gaming in real time.

Dean Leitersdorf completed his three degrees at the faculty in a record time of only 11 semesters.

Ido Gonen, a master's degree graduate (2014), is a co-founder of the startup Exodigo, which is developing a platform for excavation-free underground mapping - a kind of underground X-ray, which brings innovation to the international infrastructure sector.

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