Background
Rosenschein was born to Jewish parents in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Rosenschein was born to Jewish parents in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Science
His latest startup is Curiyo. In Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976. In his early career Rosenschein worked for Data General, American Management Systems, the World Bank, and Ashton-Tate.
He moved to Israel in 1983, where he worked as a software consultant.
Its initial product was Dagesh, the first Hebrew/English word processor for Windows. From 1991-1992, the company consulted to Microsoft, helping design and develop Hebrew and Arabic versions of Windows 3.1.
The company went on to develop multi-lingual software tools under the Accent brand. In 1999, Rosenschein founded GuruNet with Mort Meyerson and Mark Tebbe, which created a 1-click popup Internet-based information utility.
The product later became Answers.com, incorporating both editorial reference and user-generated Q&A information.
The company was listed on National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation as Answers Corporation from 13 October 2004 until 14 April 2011, when it was purchased and taken private by AFCV Holdings. Rosenschein founded Curiyo in 2013 when he was nearly 60 years old.