Location Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), Middle East Gender Male
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Jonathan Caras is a technologist, futurist, Shakespearean actor, magician and drone enthusiast. For more than 18 years, he has passionately designed and developed technology solutions to enhance, entertain and delight.
Jonathan co-founded Glide in 2012 and has served in both the CTO and COO role. He currently leads Glide’s Jerusalem-based team of
seventy, with the goal of achieving the company’s mission to transcend the boundaries of human communication through the power and personality of live video messaging. He is also responsible for embedding a healthy, productive culture in the workplace. His experience in product vision, growth and execution has resulted in Glide being installed on over 20 million devices and millions of active Glide users around the world sending billions of messages using the app.
In 2008, he founded appSTUDIO, one of Israel’s first mobile-focused software design and development studios, which specialized in creating engaging, interactive, and intuitive apps for Android and iOS. There, he led the engineering team to create more than fifty mobile applications.
A skillful presenter, Jonathan has spoken about technology and culture at events around the world, in cities such as Jerusalem, New York, Dublin, Hong Kong and San Francisco.
Jonathan regularly gives back to the startup community through his participation with local accelerators, startup hackathons and meetups. He also spends time mentoring those with an interest in the high tech sector.
He studied software engineering at the Jerusalem College of Technology.