Tango

Founded in September 2009, Tango is a free mobile video calling service that connects family and friends wherever they are. Tango offers high-quality video calling for iOS and Android devices and works over 3G, 4G, and Wi-Fi. More than 10 million people in 190 countries are using Tango to communicate every day, stay connected, and share special moments as they happen. Download the Tango application for free in the App Store and Android Market. Tango is based in Palo Alto, California.

Uri Raz

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Uri is founder and CEO at Tango where he leads product direction and strategy, and guides the company’s vision of transforming the way people communicate around the world through video calling.

Uri is a serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, founding many successful technology companies.  Prior to Tango, Uri founded and served as CEO of Dyyno, a video streaming company.  Prior to that, Uri was founder and CEO of Appstream, which was acquired by Symantec in 2006. Uri also served as CEO for Golden Screens Interactive Technologies (GSIT), founded Shore Technologies that was acquired by Ness Technologies (Israeli EDS) in 2002, and founded Teletel, Israel’s first online search engine, that is the leading search portal in Israel today.

Uri holds a B.S. Summa Cum Laude from the Technion Institute in Haifa, Israel, and holds several patents.

Eric Setton

Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Eric is founder and Chief Technology Officer at Tango where he oversees all areas of product development and leads the technical direction of the company.  As the company’s key technologist, he leverages his expertise in multimedia communication, peer-to-peer networks, and video compression to transform the way people communicate every day.

Prior to founding Tango, Eric co-founded and served as CTO and VP of marketing of Dyyno, a video streaming company, and also worked as a research scientist at HP Labs.  Eric is the author of the book Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming and has contributed to more than 30 research papers in his field. He holds six patents either granted or pending. Eric holds a B.S. degree from Ecole Polytechnique, France, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.