Primary Job Title Co-Founder & CMO Primary Organization DOKKA
Location Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), Middle East Gender Male
Website www.dokka.com Facebook View on Facebook LinkedIn View on LinkedIn Twitter View on Twitter
Serial Tech Entrepreneur & Angel Investor. South African Israeli. DOKKA.com co-founder
Eric is currently working on his new startup, DOKKA.com, helping Bookkeeping & accounting companies automate part of their process to save time & money. (DOKKA has developed AI powered technology for bookkeepers / accounting firms to instantly
collect, categorize, extract data, and process client documentation into the accounting system)
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 held positions 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 & BrandsEye. He has invested in a few ICO's.
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".