About
Innovation & Acceleration
Institutional Innovation for Global Transformation
As senior Entrepreneur in Residence at Citi Ventures, Uri led the coaching curriculum for Citigroup’s D10X incubator, setting up a permanent capability to support 100 startups every year founded by intrapreneurs from Citi‘s +200,000 employees globally, across the consumer bank and institutional clients group, that serve 200M customer accounts in 160 countries and facilitate +$3 trillion in financial flows.
Within D10X, he coached +20 funded startup projects including Proxymity, eventually spun out with $20M of investment from JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, BNY Mellon, Computershare, Clearstream and State Street, followed by $37M Series B with BNP Paribas in 2022. The company is now active in +100 markets and used by 87% of FTSE 100 companies.
Venture Incubation & Startup Acceleration At Scale
As Entrepreneur in Residence at Wayra, Telefónica–O2’s network of startup and scaleup accelerators, Uri has coached companies across the UK portfolio (205 startups valued at +$2.1 billion). Founded in 2011, Wayra was the first equity-based corporate accelerator, and the world’s largest Open Innovation Hub providing access to 350 million Telefónica customers and clients in 15 countries.
As part of regional and domain-specific startup accelerators built in partnership with government and enterprise, Uri has coached companies in programmes including the NCSC Cyber Accelerator (with GCHQ), Health Hub (MSD-Merck, Novartis), Intelligent Mobility (Hyundai, Network Rail, TfL, Ferrovial, Stagecoach), Scaleups (Innogy), Edison Accelerator (GE Healthcare) and the AI & Blockchain Accelerator (University of Edinburgh, Cisco).
Coaching & Leadership Development
Coaching Startups Into Scaleups And Beyond
Uri coaches startups and scaleups from seed through growth and early scale (2-250 employees), working with founders and their teams to accelerate commercial outcomes (e.g. reducing sales cycles from 18 to 9 months) and growth milestones (e.g. 15X pipeline, +$10M funding, key hires), and evolve their ways of working as they double in size every 3-12 months.
In the trenches, he trains and coaches teams to support the success of company-wide OKR (Objectives & Key Results) implementations—applying strategy communication to accountability and execution through effective operating principles, culture and executive development.
Helping Founders, Leaders & Their Teams Grow
Uri advises companies on go-to-market and growth strategy, sales acceleration, positioning, product development, key hiring and bar raising, and serves as a sounding board for CEOs and senior executives working through the human and operational challenges of young and maturing organisations, providing real-world playbooks for common and uncommon challenges.
He has mentored and trained startups at +18 startup accelerators globally, including Techstars and MassChallenge, and has been a guest lecturer at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School and Oxford University’s Incubator.
Previously, Uri served as VP Marketing for Ceedo, a virtualisation software company (funded by Intel Capital), and as Entrepreneur in Residence at Tzina, an international broadcast media group, where he built and managed consumer and enterprise products that shipped in the millions worldwide, across industries spanning enterprise software, web services, consumer electronics and broadcast television.
