Nimrod (Nemo) Raifer

Nimrod (Nemo) Raifer

AI & Technology Entrepreneur | AI Leader | Applied Researcher | Founder | Advisor

Founding and transforming businesses through AI innovation

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Professional Summary

A dynamic and accomplished AI entrepreneur and leader with a unique background spanning advanced academic research, and founding roles in high-growth tech startups. Proven expert in creating and deploying transformative AI systems including AI Agentsthat drive significant business growth, from scaling a company to unicorn status to adding new revenue streams.

Unicorn Scaling

Played a pivotal role in scaling Sunbit to unicorn status

AI Innovation

Built AI platforms serving 2M+ users with institutional-grade insights

Research Excellence

Published research at ACM SIGIR Conference on AI and game theory

Professional Experience

Head of AI

Chaos Labs Jan 2025 - Present

Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Led AI development of first-of-its-kind AI Investments Assistant (AI Agent) for crypto and traditional finance markets
  • Building AI platform from ground up to support 2M+ users with institutional-grade market insights
  • Collaborating with leading AI research labs (OpenAI, Anthropic) to enhance platform capabilities
  • Initiated and and maintained Chaos AI Search Engine - proprietary RAG system with a knowledge base for institutional-grade search

Head of AI

Roojoom 2021 - 2024

Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Led and managed all AI projects from ideation to implementation
  • Secured successful collaborations with major telecom companies in France and the US
  • Developed AI solutions for mass-scale user engagement and personalized customer journeys
  • Added new revenue streams to the company through AI-driven solutions

Co-founder & CEO

Budss 2021 - 2024
  • Founded and led Budss, a social payment platform that enables "Buy Together, Earn Together" digital payment method
  • Built AI-powered gamification system that incentivizes customers to form group chats and make collaborative purchases
  • Worked with ~80+ merchants in NYC

AI Lead & Founding Team Member

Sunbit 2017 - 2020

Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Created and developed core AI-powered risk engine and credit card engine
  • Developed Sunbeast program - platform enabling point-of-sale financing
  • Played pivotal role in scaling company to unicorn status
  • Certified 100K+ in-store professionals, generating a significant revenue stream
  • Built the tech and the AI behind the collection center to increase efficiency by 100%

Research & Education

The Technion – Israel's Institute of Technology

2011 - 2017 Haifa, Israel

Master of Science in AI Research

  • Advanced research in information retrieval, game theory, and machine learning
  • Teaching Assistant for Information Retrieval course
  • Created "Introduction to Data Science" course at the Technion

Key Publication

"Information Retrieval Meets Game Theory: The Ranking Competition Between Documents' Authors"

Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (2017)

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