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Ran Korber is an environmental engineer, entrepreneur, angel investor, and author with over 20 years of experience in the climate technology sector. He is the Co-founder and former CEO of BreezoMeter (now part of Google), a globally recognized leader in air quality and climate data dedicated to improving the health of billions of people exposed to environmental hazards. Under Ran's leadership, BreezoMeter won the GEW StartUp Open Global Competition as the World's Most Promising Start-up, was named to the Global Cleantech 100 four years in a row, scaled to over 100 employees, raised more than $35 million from premier global investors (including Eurazeo and Entrée Capital), and served many of the world's largest brands before its landmark acquisition by Google in 2022—one of the most successful Israeli climate-tech exits to date. Following the acquisition, Ran served as Director of Product Management at Google (2022–2024). Today, he is a Lecturer in the Minor in Entrepreneurial Leadership Program at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, where he ​also holds a B.Sc. in Environmental Engineering and was recognized as one of the Top 100 Technion Innovators during the university's centennial celebrations. Alongside his academic work, Ran is an active angel investor in early-stage climate-tech and deep-tech start-ups and the author of two books on entrepreneurship.