About
The longer story.
I’m Tomer. I co-founded Agora with Yishai, I’m writing a book called The Civic Gap, and I’ve spent years working on innovation in government. Here’s how it all started.
Right now
- Revising the full draft of The Civic Gap
- Getting Agora’s alpha in front of early testers
- Looking for offices willing to be design partners
How Agora started
It began as an argument, not a company.
Slowly, a gap came into focus: between elections, citizens have few real ways to take part in the decisions made in their name.
1
At university: a mental challenge.
Yishai and I kept asking: if you take the problems of political science seriously, what would you build to solve them? Ideas came and went. We argued, asked questions and tested answers.
2
The years between: not yet.
The timing didn’t feel right, and we didn’t yet have the skills or the knowledge to build it. So we kept learning, took on new jobs, and watched the technology mature. The idea kept coming back.
3
Now: the timing is right.
Our conversations with officeholders, civic-tech veterans, startup accelerators and citizens taught us something more: it’s also necessary.
“Fixing democracy” is a phrase that promises nothing, so we don’t use it. We want to help improve it, by updating its software and its hardware.
The short version
Where I’ve been.
- Studies Political science and economics, then a master’s in diplomacy at Tel Aviv University.
- Service I served in the military.
- Government Years of work on innovation in government.
- 2024–2025 Three books on philosophy and everyday life, alongside years of essays on this site.
- Now Building Agora with Yishai and writing The Civic Gap.
Languages, and life outside work
- Hebrew and French, natively
- English, fluently
- Some Spanish
- Karate, about twenty years of it
- A lot of tea
Tomer Rozenberg
Co-founder of Agora · writing The Civic Gap
Say hello.
If you work in or with a government office, start with the tour. For anything else, I’d love to hear from you.
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