Eric Edelstein

Eric Edelstein is a South African Serial Tech Entrepreneur & Angel Investor, currently living in Israel. He is currently working on his new startup, Dokka.me, an AI powered technology to streamline the documentation, and data from the documentation, received by bookkeepers / accounting firms. Previously, Eric co-founded global search marketing agency Click2Customers (& other companies in the holding group incuBeta) in 2003. Since stepping down from operations in the group in 2007, he has been involved in dozens of startup's in a variety of positions ranging from operational to strategic to advisory. He is an early stage angel investor in the startup space, & his portfolio includes Yola.com, Majestic, & Civic. Exits include Quirk, evly & BrandsEye Eric has had considerable experience building startup's. From brainstorming concepts, validation, creating MVP's (minimum viable products), product design, raising funding, building out the teams, scaling the business, and subsequently finding the right partner for the exit. He has vast strategic & operational experience in all facets of online marketing, PR, business development & sales. He is a regular speaker, judge & mentor at events such as Founders Institute, SW7, Startup Weekend, & Lean Startup Machine & he MC'd the prestigious 2015 eCommerceAfrica conference. Eric was included in Mail & Guardian's "Top 200 young people to have lunch with", and Old Mutual's "Top 36 South African young entrepreneurs".