Avichai Ben is the Co-Founder and CTO of Charm Security, a company focused on combating modern scams by addressing the human attack surface. His expertise is rooted in data science and machine learning, with past leadership roles at Transmit Security and Microsoft. He holds advanced degrees from Tel Aviv University and The Hebrew University.
Avichai successfully launched his company with $8M in seed funding to build proactive defenses against scams that manipulate people rather than just exploit code.
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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
Co-Founder & CTO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Israel
Personality Overview
How Avichai shows up
Assertive
Curious
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Priorities
Topics Avichai cares about
AI in Security
Focuses on leveraging AI to understand human vulnerabilities and protect against sophisticated, emotionally-engineered scams, a core mission of his company, Charm Security.
Combating Scams
Co-founded a company to proactively protect people from the "scamdemic" by focusing on the human element of security rather than just technical exploits.
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Career
Work history
1-2025
Co-Founder & CTO
Charm Security
11-2024 - 3-2025
EIR
Team8
5-2022 - 5-2024
Data Science Teams Lead
Transmit Security
12-2021 - 5-2022
Data & ML expert
Transmit Security
2-2019 - 12-2021
Data & Applied Scientist (Azure Security Center)
Microsoft
In the press
Media appearances
Charm Security Emerges From Stealth to Combat Scams and Social Engineering, Securing $8M in Seed Funding. Featured in PR Newswire
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