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Michael Matias
Founder & CEO
Clarity
Michael Matias is an entrepreneur, builder and investor. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Clarity, a company that enables organizations to rapidly identify and immunize from Deepfakes and synthetic media created by generative AI. Matias served as an Officer (was first-in-class) at 8200 (received the Cyber Excellence Award for 2019) and founded two AI teams that received the National Defense Prize. Matias then studied AI at Stanford University and led AI teams at Hippo Insurance. He is an angel investor in more than 70 deep-tech startups, and was on the investment team for multiple VCs, including Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors. He is the founder and host of a technology leadership podcast (20MinuteLeaders) with 1000+ episodes and authored 150+ articles in a leading Israeli financial newspaper.