Kahoona

Turns out a walk on the beach can be life-changing. Yes, that’s how Kahoona was born. Meet Gal Rapoport, Co-founder & CEO, and Alon Ashkenasi, Co-founder & CTO of Kahoona, a startup providing real-time customer insights and AI-driven hyper-personalization for brands. Picture this: The moment a visitor lands on your website, you instantly know if they're a loyal customer, a Gen Z-er, an impulsive shopper, or likely to #convert. Sounds like mind-reading? That’s Kahoona. We’ll let them take it from here –> ?? What led to founding Kahoona? When I (Gal) left Amazon's Personalization team to research HCI at the academy, I recognized a fundamental flaw in the digital world: over 95% of online business visitors remain anonymous. I joined forces with Alon, my old surfing buddy from the Technion with deep expertise in privacy, to address this challenge. Together, we founded Kahoona to reshape how businesses engage with their audience through AI-powered predictive segmentation decision-making, delivering immediate, user-level visibility on anonymous visitors. ?? What does your startup actually do? Using gen AI, we enable hyper-personalization in a cookieless world, allowing brands and online retailers to turn the 96% of website visitors who remain unidentified into high-intent buyers. After a few moments of user interaction, our AI predicts a user's purchase probability, pricing level, demographics and other metrics previously obscured. ?? What’s the story behind your startup’s name? Kahuna' is a Hawaiian word that refers to an expert in any field. And the 'oo'? It's for good luck! There's a superstition in our tribe that companies with double 'O' have extra luck. And yes… We can't deny that it also reflects our love for surfing and the sea. ?? What has been your proudest moment as a founder so far? When our very first customer recommended and introduced us to our largest customer today. ?? What makes your startup #ICONic? We bring the Kahoona tribe vibe. We work really hard, but know how to play hard and have fun! ?? What were your key takeaways from SV101? - The startup ecosystem in Silicon Valley has a completely different pace and set of rules than in Tel Aviv.? - Close and transparent relationships with other founders is key for personal growth and success as a founder. - Ask, and ICON's incredible team and network shall provide. Gal actually wrote a great summary, check it out here → https://lnkd.in/d-srtQj4

?? Bienvenue?Omer Ben Moshe?& Paris ????! We've got a double announcement today: -?Kahoona?is delighted to have?Omer?join the tribe as our EU GTM Lead! - We have officially opened our #Paris office! STATION F?with?La Maison des Startups - LVMH!? Omer brings a unique combination of expertise in luxury fashion, innovation experience within both enterprises and startups, and of course, he's a fluent French speaker. Join us in welcoming Omer to the Kahoona family! #GTM #Growth #Ecommerce #Innovation #Kahoona #WelcomeOmer #LVMH #STATIONF #Luxury

Let's stop using "Hyper-Personalization" as a buzzword regardless of the context. There's a REAL bottleneck to enable it, especially without the proper means. The good news: We can solve it! Hear what Gal Rapoport, our CEO, has to say!

?? Wow! What an incredible experience at The Lead Innovation Summit in NYC just a couple weeks ago! Meeting so many close friends and leaders from the industry. ?? We’ve gone ahead and consolidated all of the valuable knowledge we gathered. See our top takeaways from The Lead in the carousel below! #TheLeadInnovationSummit #CustomerIntelligence #Kahoona #Innovation #CustomerExperience #RetailTech

?? Big News! ?? Kahoona is excited to join the prestigious LVMH La Maison des Startups - LVMH! ??? Two weeks ago, we gathered with the LVMH team at STATION F in #Paris to kick-off the 10th season of this very selective program. Out of 1,500 applicants, only a small group of companies were selected. On the second day, we had an amazing experience with Christian Dior Couture. We met such a great group of people from ~10 different teams. Kahoona is leading e-commerce into its’ new era of #hyperpersonalization, with our unique data modality that unlocks predictive hyper-segmentation. This multi-modal #AI approach provides real-time, user-level customer intelligence. This is just the beginning of our journey in reshaping how brands and their consumers engage with and understand each other. Special thank you to the incredible LVMH team: Laetitia Roche-Grenet; Claire Lecoq; Louise Longuepee; Olivier Le Garlantezec; Alexandre Gence; Juliette Leconte; Emma Ceccaldi; Pascal Jouvin; Cristina Leitao Nunes; Selma Delic; Sophie Mona Pagès; Candice Buchere; Julien Fomproix. Congrats to all the visionary startups who were selected! Here are just a few of the incredible innovators: Hippoc; Aectual; Perception manufacturing; SYNOVANCE; BLNG AI; Raive; FancyTech; EQL; Brightplus; OpenDecide ; Trajaan; WizyVision; Wunderkind; Witty Works; etc. #Kahoona #LVMH #PredictiveSegmentation #HyperPersonalization #GenAI #Ecommerce #FutureOfRetail #StartupJourney #LuxuryIndustry

#ThrowbackThursday - My Take on SV101 by ICON: A few weeks back, Alon and I had the privilege of participating in SV101 by ICON in Palo Alto, alongside a group of incredible people I’m proud to call friends - Batch 15 (Blings.io, Evermile, Jigso AI, Sequence, Yess, Clarity and two stealth mode startups by Alon Kollmann, and by Rotem Lurie & Or Vaknin). After a highly selective process, we were fortunate to join the ICON - Israel Collaboration Network family. Yasmin Lukatz, Jessica Hare, Noa Topaz, Karyn Priel, Liat Miller and the entire team did their best to make our experience as valuable as possible. Way way beyond our expectations! We met inspiring individuals, learned a lot, refined our long-term mission, and most importantly, forged friendships for life. The ICON team is currently receiving applications for batch 16 - and the minimum that we can do to bring back to the community is ensuring that the next generation of ICON companies will be at least as good as the previous batches (and believe me.. the bar is high). Feel free to reach out if you’d like to learn more about it! #ICON #PaloAlto #Founders #sv101 #TechStartups #Networking #Entrepreneurship #Community

?? Kahoona will be at The Lead Innovation Summit: July 10-11 in New York! ? Understanding Anonymous Visitors and maximizing their full potential is key for online businesses as we turn cookieless, but Identity Resolution is just not enough. Let's discuss why you should emphasize real-time Customer Intelligence! ?? Let’s meet at The Lead (Booth #102) and discuss how you can improve your work and instantly grow your business by knowing the attributes and REAL business value of EVERY user with AI-predictive segments. ?? Stop by our Booth #102 [Book a meeting - link in first comment] #TheLead2024 #CustomerIntelligence #GenAI #PredictiveSegmentation #HyperPersonalization #Ecommerce #Marketing #CRM #Personalization

Is having website visitor identities alone going to be enough for online brands to truly understand their needs and preferences?

Keep an eye out for our guy Gal Rapoport in Paris! ?? Kahoona is about to light up the Eiffel Tower! ????

Hear what Gal Rapoport (Our CEO) has to say in our latest study!