I left school at 14. Built houses by 26. Co-founded and led a global tech company for a decade, then left when success became a creative jail. In 2018 I moved to Korea, with no language, for ten years of consciousness and creativity research. One question, really: what is genuinely new, and how does it emerge?
The history, briefly:
- Builder. Houses, in Israel, until 26.
- Research management. Tel Aviv University, the Technion, and CERN's inter-university EGEE project in Israel: the bridge between university labs and industry.
- Mantis Vision (2005-2014). Co-founded; CEO for about ten years. Our 3D sensing became the core of Google's Project Tango. In June 2014 we raised a $12.5M strategic round from mobile-focused investors: Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung, Flextronics' Lab IX, and Sunny Optical. Cumulative funding for the company, counting the rounds that came after me, is reported at about $77M.
- Aspen Global Leadership Network. 2009 inaugural MELI class fellow.
- Jeonju (late 2018 to now). With Daeun, wife and co-founder. Eight years in: self-funded, full time. I write every day; I play piano every day. Published as it happens, in the links below. Not a hobby next to the work, but the laboratory where the work happened.
- This site (July 2025 to now). The research journal: dated working notes in my own idiom, written for discovery, not persuasion. Dead ends stay published; the trail is the work.
- Formation Trail. Generative AI made my private question everyone's: when machines can produce everything already known, what stays human? Formation Trail is my working answer — an open-source AI-agent plugin. Every session moves through five phases, each transition gated by a question only I can answer; the AI works at full strength inside its role, but it never hands me my question or certifies my judgment. What's left: a dated trail of who originated what, kept on my own machine. Nine lines, 217 bytes, frozen — in development, in the open, on GitHub. Its first stranger, an engineer and street dancer, used an earlier form to find his own choreography.
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Amihai Loven, Jeonju
