Assaf Elovic
Growing Tavily at Sequoia Capital
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolAssaf Elovic is a seasoned AI entrepreneur and engineering leader with a decade of experience building high-impact products and teams from Tel Aviv. He founded GPT Researcher—the first deep research agent with 25k+ GitHub stars and a 6k+ developer community—and co-founded Tavily, which was later acquired by Nebius. Previously he led AI and R&D organizations at monday.com and Wix, scaling teams to 60 and delivering production AI services used by millions. Assaf combines hands-on backend work (Python, OpenAI integrations, config-driven systems) with investor-facing roles as a Sequoia scout, bridging product, research, and GTM. He holds a CS degree and an MBA focused on technology and entrepreneurship, and is notable for turning open-source momentum into academic citations and commercial exits.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MoTIE), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MoTIE) at Tel Aviv UniversityBachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science at Reichman University
eniglish, Hebrew, Spanish
Github Skills (3)
openai10
configuration-management10
python10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
assafelovic/gpt-researcher
May 2023 - Apr 2025
LLM based autonomous agent that conducts deep local and web research on any topic and generates a long report with citations.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:49 releases, 305 reviews, 471 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Assaf's commits primarily involve adding and modifying base files within the project, with a focus on configuration settings. The most significant changes include the implementation of configuration options. Key technologies and areas of focus include Python, .env files and usage of the openai library.
agentaiautomationllmsopenai
assafelovic/nlp_url_summarizer
Oct 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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