Tomer Kagan
Co-founder and CEO, Sigma Inc.
Tomer is a co-founder and the CEO of Quixey, a company dedicated to helping users find and use apps in their everyday lives. Quixey developed a new kind of search, Functional Search, specifically for app discovery. He is also an advisor for Particle Code, GeoTrio and the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Prior to Quixey, Tomer was the founder and CEO of Your Logo Here, a branding solutions provider for companies such as Google and Slide. A lifelong entrepreneur, Tomer founded a custom apparel printing business in college to pay his own tuition while studying Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at UC Santa Cruz. In his spare time, Tomer advises a chapter of the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, a leadership organization for Jewish teens.
Content & Articles by Tomer Kagan
LA Tech Week 2025 Day 2 Recap: Startup Growth – Tuesday Oct 14
After a packed AI Building Day, we continued LA Tech Week with Startup Growth Day, a full schedule of sessions focused on go-to-market strategy, founder journeys, and scaling startups in...
LA Tech Week 2025 Day 1 Recap: AI Building – Monday Oct 13
We hosted three full days of events during LA Tech Week, each one focused on helping founders learn, connect, and build with the latest in AI and startup growth. Day...
Using Customer Feedback to Build a Product that Customers Will Love
Customer feedback is the lifeblood of successful product development, but many startups struggle with collecting, validating, and prioritizing the constant stream of input from users, advisors, and internal teams. In...
How Shaun Merritt Vibe-Coded Karrot.ai As A Solo Builder
I recently had the opportunity to chat with Shaun Merritt, cofounder and CTO of Karrot.ai, a LinkedIn ABM tool. Shaun was kind enough to share a comprehensive breakdown of how...
7 Steps to Build a Product That Sells Itself
The Founder’s Mental Health Playbook: What I Learned After Nearly Burning Out
A hard-won guide to staying mentally healthy while building a startup I founded Stitcher, the podcast platform, in 2007 and ran it for seven years until we sold in 2014....