Segev Hochberg

Based in Manchester for the last five years

Operator & founder. Always both.

  1. 2017 Exited my gaming eCommerce business
  2. 2018–2023 Co-founder & COO · $0 to $10M ARR
  3. 2024–now Co-founder
Segev Hochberg mid-jump in Paris, arms and legs out wide
Paris, mid-jump.

How I got here

Four chapters, one thread.

  1. Israel Defense Forces

    Systems engineer

    Where the systems thinking started.

    I started out as a systems engineer in the IDF. That's where my interest in security and cyber intelligence began, and where I learned to think in systems.

  2. eCommerce

    Founder · sold in 2017

    Paying for every click.

    I built an eCommerce business in the gaming space, and it lived on paid traffic.

    In 2016 the agency running my ads kept spotting the same thing: every month, a chunk of my budget went on clicks from fake users who were never going to buy. I sold the business in 2017.

  3. Lunio

    Co-founder & COO · 2018–2023

    So we built the fix.

    In 2018 I co-founded PPC Protect, now Lunio, with Neil Andrew and Alex Winston from that agency. It grew into an AI-powered ad traffic verification platform: machine learning that analyses every paid click in real time, filters out bots, click farms and fraud across Google, Meta and Microsoft Ads, and moves the budget back into the campaigns that convert.

    As co-founder and COO I helped take it from $0 to $10M ARR across three funding rounds, with Fuel Ventures leading the seed and Smedvig Capital the Series A. At ±$1M ARR I hired Leonardo Pizarro to lead demand generation. Today we run ToJupiter together.

    ARR, grown from $0
    $10M
    Series A, led by Smedvig Capital
    $15M
    Businesses protected, across 10,000+ ad accounts
    1,000+
  4. ToJupiter

    Co-founder · 2024–now

    Growth, from inside the team.

    In 2024 Leo and I co-founded ToJupiter, an embedded demand generation team for B2B SaaS. Senior operators join your team, own the pipeline number with you, and answer in Slack rather than a ticket queue. I look after operations and the commercial side.

    I'm also involved in an eCommerce project, back where I started.

    Visit tojupiter.com

Who I work with

I work with the top of the pyramid.

A lot of what I know about building teams, I learned whilst scaling Lunio. I think about talent in five levels, and levels four and five are who I want around me: people who take a problem and come back with a system, or find the right problem before anyone asks.

At ToJupiter that meant more than 30 interviews for one demand gen lead, then a one-month contract before anything permanent. A date before the wedding.

  1. SuperstarFinds the right problem, and gets it solved.

  2. Systems thinkerGive them the problem, they build the system.

  3. Problem solverGive them the what, they work out the how.

  4. ExecutorNeeds the what, the how and the when.

  5. ReactiveTold what to do, still gets it wrong.

Five levels of talent, from 5 at the top to 1 at the bottom.
Heirloom tomatoes in red, green and yellow piled high on a market stall
Market day.

Off the clock

You'll find me at a market, a festival or a departure gate.

Food
Hunting down exquisite ingredients, then cooking with them.
Electronic music
5x Tomorrowland, plus shows all over Europe. Favourite DJ: Solomun.
Travel
Paris, Warsaw, and wherever the next flight goes.
Israel & Manchester
Israel is where my roots are. Manchester has been home for the last five years.

Contact

Say hello.

Founders, CMOs, investors and fellow eCommerce operators: email is the best way to reach me.

Or find me on LinkedIn.