Avi Yashchin is a serial entrepreneur in the technology, finance and education businesses. After a summer of working on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey at NASA, he began his career as a high frequency algorithmic trader in the finance industry. Avi then founded CleanEdison, a New York-based green-jobs vocational education company, which was acquired by Kaplan in 2014. Since then Avi consults or invests in data science related enterprises in the New York area such as TurnToTech, Founders Institute, Enertiv, TechStars, Serval Ventures, and others. Avi is a graduate of Johns Hopkins with a B.S. in Computer Science, obtained an MBA from NYU Stern, and lives in New York with his wonderful wife and new baby.
