A leader in high-scale networking solutions for AI infrastructures and service providers

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A radical new way to build networks

DriveNets is a leader in high-scale networking solutions for AI infrastructures and service providers.

DriveNets created a radical new way to build networks that substantially improves the network’s economic model and optimizes network performance, utilization, and efficiency. DriveNets-based networks power global leaders such as AT&T and Comcast, supporting more than 30% of overall US Internet traffic.

DriveNets’ Network Cloud-AI, which was introduced to the market in 2023, offers full-stack networking for AI infrastructures, delivering the highest-performance Ethernet alternative to InfiniBand. The solution is used by Hyperscalers, NeoClouds, and Enterprises worldwide.

Awards

Leadership

We’re successful entrepreneurs. Now, we’re at it again, backed by top investors with many proven successes.

Ido Susan
Ido Susan

CEO and Co-Founder

Hillel Kobrinsky
Hillel Kobrinsky

Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder

Mike Lilo
Mike Lilo

Chief Financial Officer

Inbar Lasser-Raab
Inbar Lasser-Raab

Chief Marketing Officer

Naama Ofek Arad
Naama Ofek Arad

Chief Operating Officer

Tali Itzhar
Tali Itzhar

SVP R&D

Ralph Candiloro
Ralph Candiloro

SVP Sales for APAC

Investors

Pitango

Pitango

Pitango is home to visionary entrepreneurs and groundbreaking companies from stealth mode to shining unicorns. Pitango partners with exceptional founding teams via three parallel funds Pitango First, Pitango Growth and Pitango HealthTech.

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Bessemer Venture Partners

Bessemer Venture Partners

Bessemer Venture Partners is the world's most experienced early-stage venture capital firm. Bessemer has supported founders through more than 120 IPOs, including Shopify, Yelp, LinkedIn, Skype, LifeLock, Twilio, SendGrid, DocuSign, Wix, and Mindbody. Bessemer's 15 partners operate from offices in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Israel, and India.

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D1 Capital Partners

D1 Capital Partners

D1 Capital Partners is a global investment advisory firm that operates across public and private markets. Founded in 2017 by Daniel Sundheim, D1 focuses on investing in the global internet, technology, telecom, media, consumer, healthcare, industrial, and real estate sectors.

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Atreides Management

Atreides Management

Atreides Management, LP brings the long-term perspective of a private equity investor to high-growth technology and consumer companies and invests across public and private markets.

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Ido Susan

Ido Susan

CEO and Co-Founder

An entrepreneur at heart, Ido founded DriveNets in December 2015 and has been the company’s CEO, shaping its technological and business vision since. Prior to DriveNets, Ido co-founded Intucell – the company that invented the Self Optimizing Network (SON), which was acquired by Cisco for $475M three years after its inception. After the acquisition, Ido held a leading role in the global mobility solutions business unit at Cisco. Ido started his career as a technology prodigy in the intelligence unit of the IDF.

Hillel Kobrinsky

Hillel Kobrinsky

Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder

Hillel is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in building companies and growing their business. He co-founded DriveNets with Ido Susan, driving the company’s business strategy. Prior to DriveNets, Hillel founded Interwise – a Web Conferencing software company that was acquired by AT&T in 2007. After the acquisition, Hillel built and managed AT&T’s R&D center in Israel and was a Senior Advisor to Israel’s Minister of Finance (2013-2015).

Mike Lilo

Mike Lilo

Chief Financial Officer

Mike is a seasoned CFO with over 30 years’ experience and six successful exits in numerous hi-tech companies of different sizes, technologies and business models. Mike leads the finance, business operations, corporate development and investors relations activities at Drivenets. His focus is on maximizing the company’s potential and delivering value to its shareholders and employees.

Inbar Lasser-Raab

Inbar Lasser-Raab

Chief Marketing Officer

Inbar is a high-tech marketer with wide international experience and passion for networking. She joined DriveNets in 2019 to grow the company’s brand awareness and accelerate its business growth. Prior to joining DriveNets, Inbar was VP of Enterprise Product Marketing at Cisco’s Headquarters, supporting a $25B+ portfolio, and VP of marketing at Nokia.

Naama Ofek Arad

Naama Ofek Arad

Chief Operating Officer

Naama is a seasoned technology leader, bringing extensive relevant experience to DriveNets. Before joining DriveNets she served as the COO of Riskified where she led a multidisciplinary organization that was instrumental in the company’s journey from a private to public company. Naama oversees the AI Business Unit Operations team, IT organization and Security Operations teams.

Tali Itzhar

Tali Itzhar

SVP R&D

With over 15 years of experience in developing distributed networking systems, Tali lead software development at Compass-EOS. Tali has a deep understanding of routing and Quality of Service, and now, at DriveNets, has built a dedicated team of over 150 engineers to develop a carrier grade, cloud native edge to core router.

Ralph Candiloro

Ralph Candiloro

SVP Sales for APAC

Ralph brings more than 25 years of experience in Sales and Operations, growing accounts across Telecom, Cable & Cloud verticals. Ralph leads the APAC team to ensure that DriveNets fully supports our customers in the region, with strong operations and partners who accompany the full lifecycle management of DriveNets Network Cloud deployments. Previously, Ralph was an Senior Vice President and General Manager at Juniper Networks Asia Pacific and a VP at Tellabs.