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In 2012, when news spread that Ori Allon was leaving Twitter to launch a new company, venture capitalists contacted him saying: “Whatever you are doing next, we want in!”

It reveals just as much about the pulling power of the 34-year-old tech expert – whose previous companies were bought by Google and Twitter respectively – as it does about current investing trends.

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In a time when Yahoo! can buy Tumblr for US$1.1 billion and Snapchat’s co-founder can reject a US$3 billion offer from Facebook, Allon is just the sort of entrepreneur on investors’ radars.

Allon was born in Israel, studied in Australia, and has Israeli, US and Australian citizenship.

Now based in New York, he is helping to cement that city’s newfound status as “Silicon Alley”.

The National Venture Capital Association has judged New York as one of the three best cities for tech start-ups in the US, after San Fr