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Dov Moran

Dov Moran is an Israeli engineer, inventor, investor and writer known for inventing the USB flash drive, sold as DiskOnKey.

born 1955Inventing the USB flash driveFounding M-SystemsThe Modu modular phoneFounding Grove Ventures

Born: 29 July 1955, Ramat Gan
Occupation: engineer, businessperson, inventor, investor
Education: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Ohel Shem
Founded: M-Systems (1989), Modu (2007), Grove Ventures (2016)

Dov Moran was born in 1955 in Ramat Gan

Dov Moran was born in Ramat Gan as Dov Mintz, to parents who survived the Holocaust and came from Poland. His father, Baruch Mintz, was from Krosno, and his mother, Bina Gever, was from Blonie. As a teenager he took a computer course at Tel Aviv University.

He attended Ohel Shem high school. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with honors at the Technion in Haifa.

Moran served in the Israeli Navy and commanded its microprocessor department. He later worked as an independent technology consultant.

In 1989 he founded M-Systems, which developed flash storage devices including DiskOnKey and DiskOnChip. SanDisk bought the company in 2006. In 2007 he founded Modu, which built a small modular mobile phone, and its patents were sold to Google in 2011.

He chaired Tower Semiconductor from January 2007 and founded Comigo in 2011. He set up the venture capital firm Grove Ventures, which invests in early-stage startups. In 2016 he published a book on entrepreneurship.