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    In the beginning, companies built small quantum computers with tens and even hundreds of qubits.
    It was an important milestone for science, but with limited practical value.
    And then there was light
    Photonics is the only way to deliver useful quantum computers.
    This requires large-scale error-corrected systems with millions of qubits.
    Quantum Source is at the heart of this photonic revolution, building a world-class team that develops the next big step in photonic quantum computing.
    We are supported by top investors, highly experienced in deep tech ventures.
    Leadership Team
    • Oded Melamed
      Co-founder and CEO
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      Oded Melamed is an accomplished entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience. Oded was the co-founder and CEO of Altair Semiconductor. The company was acquired in 2016 by Sony Corporation for $212 million. He holds a BSc and MSc (Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from the Tel Aviv University and an Executive MBA from the Kellogg-Recanati program
    • Gil Semo
      Co-founder and VP R&D
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      Gil Semo is an experienced executive, with more than 25 years in the semiconductor industry. Gil was Director VLSI and part of the founding team of Anobit (acquired by Apple in 2012), and after the acquisition was Director of System Architecture and a member of Apple Israel’s management team. He holds BSc in Electrical Engineering and MBA from Ben-Gurion University.
    • Dan Charash
      Co-founder and Chairman
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      Dan Charash is an accomplished entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience. Dan was previously CEO and Co-Founder of Provigent, acquired by Broadcom for over $300M. Dan has an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israeli Institute of Technology, and a BSc in Math and Physics from the Hebrew University and is a graduate of Israel's Talpiot program.
    • Prof. Barak Dayan
      Co-founder and Chief Scientist
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      Prof. Barak Dayan is an Associate Professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, head of the Weizmann Quantum Optics group. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech, as part of Professor H. J. Kimble’s Quantum Optics group. He did his BSc and MSc in Physics at the Hebrew University as part of the Talpiot program, and his PhD in Physics at the Weizmann Institute.
    • Shlomit Semel
      VP HR
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      Shlomit Semel is an HR specialist with more than 25 years of experience in the high-tech industry. Shlomit was VP HR at Altair Semiconductor and was part of its core founding team. Shlomit also served as Senior Director of HR at ZoomInfo (ZI, Nasdaq). She holds a MSM degree from NY Polytechnic University and a BA from The College of Management in Behavioral Sciences.
    Board of Directors
    • Oded Melamed
      Co-founder and CEO
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      Gil Semo
      Co-founder and VP R&D
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      Dan Charash
      Co-founder, Chairman
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      Dov Moran
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      Dov Moran is the Managing Partner of Grove Ventures. He is one of the most prominent Israeli hi-tech leaders in the world, best known as the inventor of the USB flash drive (Moran founded M-Systems, acquired by SanDisk for $US 1.6 billion in 2006). Moran also served as the Chairman of Tower Semiconductors, a developer and manufacturer of semiconductors and integrated circuits, in which he led a massive overhaul. In 2022, it was announced that Intel will acquire Tower for $5.4 Billion.
      Dr. Ayal Itzkovitz
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      Ayal is a Managing Partner in Pitango First, focusing on early-stage companies aiming at disrupting the way software is built, used, and deployed, transforming traditional industries with data, and enabling new economies. In addition, he’s intrigued by frontier technologies, such as Quantum Computing. In his entrepreneurship tenure, Ayal has founded and served as the CEO of Convergin, a Pitango portfolio company, that was transforming how telco communication networks are built. The company was acquired by Oracle in 2010, after which Ayal took up the role of corporate vice president at Oracle. Ayal earned his PhD in Computer Science from the Technion.
      Seth Winterroth
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      Seth is a Partner at Eclipse Ventures and has spent his career building and investing in technology solutions that solve physical world problems at scale. He began his career at General Electric where he helped develop and implement a variety of robotics, 3D printing, and IOT solutions. At GE he saw first-hand how these technologies could improve operations dramatically — in some cases evolve business models completely. This experience informed his perspective that the coming decades would bring about a new generation of data-driven machine intelligence that will dramatically shift how entire industries operate. With the understanding that many of the companies that will define this new age had yet to be created, he left GE to join Eclipse at inception to build a venture capital firm focused on partnering with the companies driving a new industrial evolution. At Eclipse, Seth partners with founders at the pre-product stage to build enduring, highly differentiated businesses. Over the years he has continued to invest in companies building transformative solutions for the manufacturing, supply chain, transportation, and healthcare industries. Seth is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College.