D-ID revenue is $3.2 million

Gil Perry, the founder and CEO of D-ID, has broad experience as a manager and senior developer. During his army service in an elite Israeli Special Forces unit, Gil experienced firsthand some of the negative implications of facial recognition and the risk it holds to people’s privacy. Gil decided that restoring privacy will become his mission. Upon completing his B.Sc. in Computer Science at Tel Aviv University, focusing on computer vision and image processing, Gil spent time working with some of the leading global researchers in the field. It was during this time that Gil and his two co-founders began developing one of the most complicated and groundbreaking algorithms for protecting photos from face recognition technologies. This code served as the foundation for the creation of D-ID (short for De-Identification).Gil is CEO & co-founder of D-ID, which he established in 2017 with his friends and fellow co-founders COO Sella Blondheim and CTO Eliran Kuta. He has broad experience as a manager and developer in corporate and start-up environments. Gil has commanding experience in a special forces unit of the Israeli Defense Forces. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, where he focused on computer vision and image processing.