About

Amit Lev Kochavi, 28, is an entrepreneur, the founder of Starwell Holdings, Senior Advisor to the Mayor of Sderot, and a member of the President of Israel's "Kol HaAm" (Voice of the People) Council.

Amit is a fourth-generation member of a family of entrepreneurs and philanthropists active in Israel and Los Angeles. On one side, he is a great-grandson of Sarah Buchman, who in 1942 founded the Buchman-Heyman Foundation, among the first charitable institutions of its kind in Israel, and a grandson of Uziela and Tom Heyman z"l, who led the foundation for decades. On the other side, he is a grandson of Herbert Glaser z"l, among the leaders of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles, and Sharon Glaser, and a great-grandson of Louis Factor, son of Max Factor, founder of the cosmetics empire.

Amit has been an entrepreneur from an early age. At 15 he founded four youth entrepreneurship incubators within the LEAD organization: two in Tel Aviv, one in the Sharon region, and one at the Reali School in Haifa. The incubators gave teenagers dedicated space within their schools and dozens of mentors who came twice a week to guide them in developing social and technological projects of their own.

He then served in Ofek, the technology unit of the Israeli Air Force.

Amit began his independent path in March 2019, at age 21, founding Circles I.T. Innovation Ltd. together with Gil Geva, founder and chairman of Tidhar Group, and Yoav Shalosh. The company is the Israeli franchisee of Doss, an AI-based ERP system that has raised more than $70 million to date. Amit served as the company's CEO until 2025.

In 2025 he founded Starwell Holdings, a private group operating across three arms: technology, real estate, and investments. The technology arm focuses on acquiring and operating technology and IT services companies in Israel and on implementing AI in small and medium-sized businesses, while the real estate arm rests on the family's development activity in Gush Dan and Southern California, within which Amit advises and supports projects.

Since 2023, Amit has served as Senior Advisor to the Mayor of Sderot, Alon Davidi. In this role, working closely with the Tkuma Directorate in the Prime Minister's Office, he has initiated and advanced projects for the city's recovery and the acceleration of its economic growth in the aftermath of October 7. He is also among the 150 members of the "Kol HaAm" Council, the initiative established by President Isaac Herzog to strengthen the bond between Israel and world Jewry.

Alongside his business and public work, Amit serves on the boards of the Buchman-Heyman Foundation and the Herbert and Sharon Glaser Foundation.

Amit was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2017 and to TheMarker's 40 Under 40 list in 2025. He holds a bachelor's degree in Management and Public Policy from the Open University of Israel and lives in Tel Aviv.