Yoav Lurie

Board Member

2020 - Current

WattBuy partners with leading brands to enable them to provide cleaner, cheaper energy options to their customers. OpenDoor, TrueBill, Updater, and CreditKarma rely on WattBuy to power their energy experience. I’ve served on the WattBuy board of directors since 2020.

Member

2024

EHF Fellow

2020

The Edmund Hillary Fellowship is focused on creating positive global impact. It brings world-class entrepreneurs, investors, and startup teams, to encourage more innovation and investment capital towards developing new transformative solutions for global challenges, from Aotearoa New Zealand.

Mentor

2015

Founder of Simple Energy (Techstars Boulder, 2011) and mentor to companies in the Techstars Boulder Accelerator, the Techstars Energy Accelerator, and the Techstars Anywhere Accelerator programs.

President

2019 - 2019

Simple Energy merged with Tendril to form Uplight, the leader in delivering a modern customer energy experience, in order to accelerate the clean energy ecosystem. Uplight is a certified B Corporation. Exited to Schneider Electric, AES, and Huck Capital for $1.5 billion.

CEO and Founder

2010 - 2019

Simple Energy was the leader in customer engagement software and branded Ecommerce marketplaces for electric and gas utilities. Simple Energy was twice named among the Top 20 Impact Companies. In July 2019, Simple Energy merged with Tendril to form Uplight.

Mentor

2015 - 2019

MergeLane discovers, accelerates and invests in exceptional women and the companies they run.

Director and Practice Manager

2008 - 2010

Synteractive, a strategy and technology services firm, worked with large government, non-profit, and private sector organizations to leverage their data to better engage their stakeholders. At Synteractive, Yoav served as Director of Strategy and New Business Development and the Practice Manager for the Communities Practice. In this capacity, Yoav led the firm's successful bid to redevelop Recovery.gov, the website to track waste, fraud, and abuse in the 2009 Stimulus Act. The site was the first large-scale government website to provide citizens, journalists, and developers with unfettered access to machine-readable data and to enable the creation of a wide variety of third-party applications. Following the relaunch of Recovery.gov, Newsweek remarked, “The result is the current incarnation of Recovery.gov—which, as anyone who has spent significant amounts of time scouring government websites for information will tell you—is perhaps the clearest, richest interactive database ever produced by the American bureaucracy." Following Yoav's departure, Synteractive was purchased by its long-time strategic partner, Smartronix.

Managing Director, Development

2007 - 2008

Yoav served as the Managing Director for Development in Teach For America's Metro D.C. region. During his tenure, Yoav and his team achieved successive triple-digit year-over-year growth. In the 2008 fiscal year, his team raised over $8.5M in cash and pledges—over 50% of the region’s total 17 year fundraising total.

Team Leader - Program for Jewish Community Organizations

2004 - 2007

Started and ran a business unit within a socially responsible, specialty insurance provider. Focused on improving overall safety for Jewish Community Centers and Jewish Federations around the country.