[4] When he was 10, he read about computers in a video gaming magazine and began to study programming on the internet via a dial-up connection he had persuaded his parents to install.
He had limited opportunity to further his programming studies in Reims,[5] and seeking to learn more about technology and entrepreneurship, he moved to Jerusalem in 2003 through Na'ale Elite Academy, an organization for young Jewish people to make Aliyah independently.
Originally developed as required coursework at Boys Town, it placed first in the 2005 Israel Department of Education national competition for projects related to Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Technology.
A spending-and-credit-tracking app, it allowed users to track their spending, monitor their credit, set up fraud alerts and, via crowd-sourced data, flag unauthorized charges.
Five months after its launch the company raised $10m in venture capital from investors including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and PayPal founder Peter Thiel.
Backed by the Israeli National Cyber Bureau, the Jewish Agency, private donors and corporate partners such as Check Point, Microsoft, PayPal and Intel, it identifies young professionals internationally and provides them with training in data science, cyber-security and coding to aid or launch their careers in the tech industry.