Yuval Golan is the Founder and CEO of Waltz, a Fintech-Proptech-Wealthtech startup providing foreigners with a simple, remote experience to invest in, purchase, and financially manage U.S. residential real estate. 

Golan was recently featured in Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Forbes, The Washington Post, Inman, HousingWire, BiggerPockets, and quoted in and other leading international media outlets with over 2.8 billion impressions globally. In addition to global news coverage, he has received accolades such as the 2025 Inman AI Award, 2024 Inman Best of Proptech, 2025 HousingWire Insider Award, Fintech Breakthrough’s Best Digital Mortgage Product Award, Miami Israel Collective Community Recognition Award, and FiNext Leadership Visionary Award.

Golan has managed operations generating billions of dollars in revenue across 18 countries across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas. His expertise spans M&As, leveraged buyouts, venture capital, and real estate investment, with a portfolio of properties in the U.S., Europe, China, and Israel. He is an experienced executive in business development, consulting, finance, fund-raising, operations and sales (B2C, B2B, B2G, G2G). He was previously the CEO of Unique 1 Asia International, which provided strategic consulting and project management services. 

Golan is a global citizen who holds a BS in Economics and Business from Utrecht University and Luiss Guido Carli University, and a Joint Executive MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Peking University. In addition to his formal education, he is a global citizen who holds multiple passports and is fluent in several languages.

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