Ned Taleb

Co-Founder: Reailize, B-Yond, Yuvo, NAOM, Klareza, EKEI

Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

About

Ned Taleb is serial founder / unicorn founder; and an EY Entrepreneur of the Year. He is co-founder and CEO of Reailize and B-Yond, EKEI Real Estate, EKEI general contractors, Klareza and NAOM; and co-founder of Yuvo, Universal and 7 prior companies that were acquired by Nasdaq unicorns. The bootstrapped companies co-founded by Ned over a 20 year period created 1000s of jobs and generated billion dollars in revenues from Fortune 100 companies. Ned was born and raised through a 15 year war where 7% of population died; his house was destroyed twice, his father kidnapped. After moving many times between countries in the pursuit of the American Dream, he bootstrapped his first company in the US while in his twenties in a two bedroom apartment in Virginia and in the midst of the 2001 Global Recession. As an Angel Investor and incubator, Ned enjoys meeting and coaching new and young Entrepreneurs and sit on Judges Panels of Entrepreneurship competitions at McGill and IE University; Ned is also visiting professor for MBA at IE Business School on Serial Entrepreneurship and Bootstrapping. Ned speaks 4 fluent languages and sings in 10 languages, using his voice to break cultural barriers. For fun or for a cause, Ned enjoys performing Classical and flamenco guitar concerts and taking part in Opera recitals. He is also an advanced coffee barista and roaster.

Experience

  • Co-Founder, CEO at Reailize
    Dec 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

    Reailize delivers Transformative Managed Services and Programs via Product Innovation. We bring Extreme Automation + best practices in PM + deep Subject Matter Expertise in US, Europe and neartime/ offshore hubs. We are working with the world’s largest Telcos & Enterprises signing up for business outcomes and putting skin in the game Reailize builds on the decades of track record of the founding team and the thousand of team members currently working in US, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Middle East.

  • Co-Founder, CEO at B-Yond
    May 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 3 mos

    B-Yond is a US company with R&D in Montreal, Canada B-Yond product is deployed at all the Tier 1 Telcos in US and Europe. During the World Cup, our product was extensively used by both Telcos in hosting country to enhance network stability. B-Yond is a Gartner Cool vendor in the Business Transformation category; it was recognized by Fierce Wireless magazine as Hottest 15 startups. Its flagship product won the “Most Innovative AI Product/Solution” at TelecomReview Excellence Awards.

  • Co-Founder, Board Member at Yuvo
    Aug 2019 - Present · 7 yrs

    Yuvo’s products are deployed at Orange, Vodafone, Ooredoo, Eutelsat, Terrestar, Zain and others Yuvo’s Product is an end to end Observability with advanced cross domain correlation and advanced troubleshooting

  • Adjunct Professor at IE Business School
    Apr 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 4 mos

    Professor at IE University Entrepreneurship Department; designed and taught a new course for MBA students on Serial Entrepreneurship with emphasis on Bootstrapping

  • Co-Founder, CEO at Klareza
    Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

    Klareza is working on advanced Video Intelligence solutions for Security applications. Klareza is currently in R&D / Stealth mode