Matan joined CropX in 2018 as the Director of Business Development.
Prior to joining CropX, Matan worked for the Israel Innovation Authority (the governmental funding agency for R&D) where he had provided consultancy services to the Israeli innovation ecosystem.
Before that, Matan spent several years researching the effect of treated wastewater irrigation on soil properties and the spatial distribution of water in the soil, during which he had experimented using many different soil sensing technologies, and published several scientific papers on the subject. Matan holds a M.Sc in Soil and Water Sciences from the Hebrew University’s Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment.