Bob Rosenschein

About

Bob Rosenschein is an American-Israeli internet entrepreneur. His latest startup is Curiyo. He is the founder and was Chairman and CEO of Answers.com, formerly GuruNet, until May 2011, when it was bought by Summit Partner's AFCV Holdings for $127 million. Rosenschein was born to Jewish parents and grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated with a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976. In his early career, Mr. Rosenschein worked for Data General, American Management Systems, the World Bank, and Ashton-Tate. He moved to Israel in 1983, where he worked as a software consultant. In 1988, together with his brother, Prof. Jeffrey Rosenschein, he founded Kivun, later Accent Software. Its initial product was Dagesh, the first Hebrew/English word processor for Windows. From 1991-1992, the company consulted to Microsoft, helping design and develop Hebrew and Arabic versions of Windows 3.1. The company went on to develop multi-lingual software t

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seed

Location

Jerusalem, Israel