Talmon Marco () is an

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, best known as the founder of H2Pro, founder and former

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, a proprietary cross-platform

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application for

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s, and

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, a ride sharing service.

Career

Born in Israel, Marco served as CIO for the

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Pikud Merkaz. He completed a degree in Computer Science and Management from

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, later moving to the U.S. where he spent most of his adult life. In 1997 he co-founded

Expand Networks Expand Networks, Ltd. was a Tel Aviv, Israel based provider of WAN optimization technology founded in 1998 and liquidated in 2011. Overview Expand Networks was a privately held company, co-founded by Talmon Marco in 1998; initial financing was p ...

and served as the company's President until 2004. In 1998, Marco co-founded

iMesh iMesh was a media and file sharing client that was available in nine languages. It used a proprietary, centralized, P2P network (IM2Net) operating on ports 80, 443 and 1863. iMesh was owned by American company iMesh, Inc., who maintained dev ...

, where he was President until 2010. In 2010 he co-founded Viber with

Igor Magazinnik Igor Magazinik (, ) is an Israeli-Russian entrepreneur and businessman of Jewish-Russian descent. He is known as the CTO and co-founder of Viber. Magazinik was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. At age 16, he moved to Israel. Upon graduating univ ...

, a friend from the Israel Defense Forces, and served as its CEO. In 2014, Rakuten acquired the company for $900,000,000. In 2016, he founded

, a ride-sharing app. In 2017,

Gett GT GETTAXI (UK) LIMITED, commonly referred to as Gett and previously known as GetTaxi, is an Israeli B2B Ground Transportation Management (GTM) platform and marketplace, and B2C ride-hailing app headquartered in London, and owned by GT GetTax ...

acquired the company for $200,000,000. In 2019, he co-founded H2Pro, a climate-tech company looking to produce Green Hydrogen at scale. The company raised over $100,000,000 from BEV (Bill Gates’ climate fund) and others.

References

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