Gil Elbaz

Serial founder focused on data and infrastructure — Elbaz has repeatedly built foundational data products and platforms, from Applied Semantics (the contextual-ad technology that evolved into AdSense) to Factual (a large open/location-data platform) and Common Crawl (an open, petabyte-scale web crawl). His work shows a consistent orientation toward collecting, cleaning, and making large factual datasets usable for research and products. wikipedia+2

Investor and ecosystem builder in Los Angeles — as a founding partner at TenOneTen Ventures he has backed and mentored early-stage companies while also helping build the LA tech community; he combines operator experience with active angel investing and board service. tenoneten+1

Nonprofit and public-good advocate for open information — through founding Common Crawl and long-term board roles (XPRIZE, Caltech trustee), Elbaz has invested time and resources into making large datasets and educational opportunities more broadly accessible. commoncrawl+1

Technical leader with systems and database roots — Elbaz’s early career as a database engineer (IBM, Sybase, MicroUnity, SGI) and later engineering leadership at Google shaped his strengths in building scalable data systems and teams capable of operating at web scale. wikipedia+1