Nir Weingarten
Co-Founder & CEO
Marketing, AI
Tel Aviv, Israel
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Nir Weingarten is the Co-Founder and CEO of Eikona, a start-up using GenAI and reinforcement learning to transform lifecycle marketing. A published AI researcher with a master’s degree in machine learning from Reichman University, Nir spent over a decade leading multi-disciplinary technical and product teams across the fields of AI, data and performance.
Together with co-founder and CTO Omer Hacohen, Nir built Eikona to disrupt an area of marketing that has barely evolved in 20 years. While social media feeds have been algorithmically personalized for over a decade, the emails, SMS and push notifications brands use to retain customers still rely on slow, manual A/B testing.
Replacing A/B testing with Reinforcement Learning, as delivered by Eikona, delivers double-digit uplifts in revenue from lifecycle channels, such as emails and SMS, across various sectors – predominantly in retail, telecom, finance, insurance, healthcare and travel. In December 2025, Eikona raised a $5 million seed round led by StageOne Ventures.
The approach delivers double- and even triple-digit uplifts in sales, retention and engagement, and is already deployed across various sectors – predominantly in retail, while also available in telecom, finance, insurance, healthcare and travel. In December 2025, Eikona raised a $5 million seed round led by StageOne Ventures.
Nir Weingarten is also featured on our premiere Features Page, and you can read the Podcast Interview Transcript.
