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Eytan Elbaz

Founder of Afterparty

Los Angeles, California

Overview 

Eytan Elbaz is the Co-founder of Afterparty, a successful venture he co-founded, showcasing his expertise in business development, fundraising, and product marketing. With a background that includes co-founding successful companies like Social Native and Scopely, Eytan has invested in numerous innovative startups, such as Emotive and FabFitFun, focusing on sectors like Games, Gaming/eSports, and Marketplaces.

Work Experience 

  • Co-founder, ReadyAI (Afterparty)

    2021 - Current

    -Replacing human Information tagging with AI. -Significantly reducing error rates in social media post moderation against an equally large reduction in costs. -Funded by Acrew Capital, TenOneTen Ventures, Palm Tree Crew and more.

  • Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer

    2015 - 2021

    Social Native is a technology company reinventing how brands conceptualize and create content. Our content engine connects brands with millions of epic content creators globally, to create high-performing, cost-effective branded content on demand. We raised $8M from Softbank and others to build our vision.

Social Native is a technology platform for creating high performing branded content.

Raised $8,000,000.00 from LFX Venture Partners.

  • Co-founder

    2011 - 2018

    At peak, we were the 2nd fastest growing media company in the U.S. and 101st overall by Forbes Magazine.

  • Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer

    2011 - 2015

    Scopely was of the fastest growing companies in world history. $1B in annual revenue by Year 11. Sold to the Saudi Arabia PIF in 2023

Scopely is an entertainment and video game company that creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games.

Raised $998,500,000.00 from Empede Capital, Maximize Capital, Veligera Capital, Nelstone Ventures and Employee Stock Option Fund.

  • Head of Domain Channel

    2003 - 2007

    I was responsible for driving AdSense for Domains revenue. I grew the channel from $13M to $600M annually over four and a half years.

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

  • Founding Member & Vice President

    1999 - 2003

    At Applied Semantics, I conceived the ideas for applying the company's meaning-based technology towards domain name selection and monetization, and towards contextual targeting, launched as Oingo AdSense in 2000. AdSense generates $40B annually for Google. Applied Semantics was acquired by Google in April 2003 for $102M

  • Technical Sales Engineer

    1996 - 1999

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