🇮🇱 Building the App-Free Future of AI | Inna Tokarev-Sela on IsraelTech

What do black-box AI, enterprise chaos, data governance, and founding solo have in common? Inna Tokarev-Sela is here to connect the dots and she’s not holding back.

In this sharp and refreshingly practical episode, Inna, Founder & CEO of Illumex, joins Yoel Israel to talk about building the infrastructure for an agentic AI world where your data talks back, apps disappear, and Fortune 500s finally get their act together.

We talk about:

• Why 25% of Fortune 500 revenue will come from AI and data within 3 years

• What agentic AI actually means and how it changes enterprise decision-making

• How Illumex turns chaotic data into explainable, auditable intelligence

• What it’s like to found a deep tech startup solo - and assemble your dream team

• Why “application-free” is the next UX revolution in the enterprise

• Why Israel missed the GenAI wave - and how it can still leap ahead through data

If you care about real AI implementation, enterprise transformation, or building something that scales, this one’s for you.

👉 Watch, share, and tell us:
Is the future app-free? Or are dashboards here to stay?

About Inna Tokarev-Sela

Inna Tokarev-Sela is the Founder and CEO of Illumex, a pioneering startup building the world’s first agentic data experience platform for enterprises.

Before founding Illumex, Inna held senior leadership roles at SAP and Sisense, where she led large-scale innovation and product teams across cloud platforms, video analytics, and enterprise-grade data solutions. Her career spans over 15 years in deep tech and enterprise transformation, with a strong focus on data architecture, AI readiness, and enterprise adoption.

Inna is a solo founder with a strong belief in building technology that bridges business and engineering through trust, transparency, and user empathy. She holds degrees in mathematics and computer science, and is a frequent speaker on topics such as enterprise AI, data governance, and female leadership in tech.

She lives in Israel, where she’s actively shaping the future of enterprise AI and advocating for responsible innovation, collaboration, and long-term impact across the global tech ecosystem.

About Illumex

​Illumex is a next-generation enterprise AI company based in Tel Aviv, building the first agentic data experience platform designed for large organizations. By turning fragmented enterprise data into intelligent, explainable, and trustworthy interactions, Illumex enables business users to "talk to their data" with the same ease as chatting in Slack.

Founded in 2021 by enterprise tech veteran Inna Tokarev-Sela, Illumex helps organizations accelerate AI adoption through automated data preparation, semantic governance, and real-time orchestration of generative AI. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing enterprise systems, reducing risk and complexity while boosting decision velocity across the org.

Illumex is trusted by Fortune 500s and fast-scaling enterprises alike, offering a full-stack solution that spans AI readiness, compliance, and workflow automation. It serves use cases across customer support, finance, HR, marketing, and more - without requiring companies to rebuild their tech stack or retrain their teams.

Backed by leading VCs including Cardumen Capital and Jibe Ventures, Illumex is redefining the enterprise AI stack for the application-free future. As enterprises move from experimentation to scale with AI, Illumex is emerging as the critical infrastructure layer powering intelligent, compliant, and context-aware data experiences.

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