Gad Allon

Active Investor

Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer at AIC

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Gad Allon, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer at AIC is an active investor based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This profile covers what Gad Allon backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Dr. Gad Allon is a Co-Founder & serves as Chief Science Officer at AIC. He is an Angel Investor. Dr. Allon served as Advisor at ReturnGO. Mr. Allon is the Jeffrey A. Keswin Professor and Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, and the director of the Management and Technology Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in Management Science from Columbia Business School in New York and holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree from the Israeli Institute of Technology. His research interests include operations management in general, and service operations and operations strategy in particular. Mr. Allon has been studying models of information sharing among firms and customers both in service and retail settings, as well as competition models in the service industry. His articles have appeared in leading journals, including Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management and Operations Research. Mr. Allon won the 2011 "Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Award" of the Production and Operations Management Society. He is the Operations Management Department Editor of Management Science and serves on the editorial board of several journals. Mr. Allon is an award-winning educator, teaching courses on scaling operations and operations strategy. He has also been an innovative leader in many educational technology initiatives. He is the co-founder of ForClass, a platform that enables professors to drive higher student engagement and accountability in their classrooms. Mr. Allon regularly consults firms both on service strategy and operations strategy.

Investor type: Angel
Stages: Early Stage VenturePre SeedSeed
Invests in: SaaS & EnterpriseManufacturing & Industrial
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Typical check: $250K
Past investments: 8

Notable investments

ImmunaiLoops (Tel Aviv)Solvo (Network Management Software)Alice (Israel)InfiniGrowReturnGONeuraLightSternum

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