This Serial Entrepreneur Sold Companies to IBM and GE, and Now Has Another Hot Startup

(Forbes) Elizabeth MacBride - Zvi Schreiber, a Jerusalem-based entrepreneur, is on his fourth successful startup. Schreiber, who has a PhD in computer science, has led three startups to acquisitions: Tradeum Inc., a BtoB pioneer, had revenues of $100 million before it was acquired in 2000. He sold a database operator called Unicorn, to IBM in 2006, and another company, Lightech, to GE Lighting in 2011. His latest startup, Freightos, one of a crop of startups aiming to disrupt the $1 trillion shipping industry, looks to be another success. Freightos says it works with 90% of the top 25 freight forwarders and employs 140 people in Jerusalem, Ramallah and Spain.


2016-09-30 00:00:00

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