Adar Hay

Adar Hay is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Jiga, a manufacturing technology startup based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Prior to establishing the company, he worked as a mechanical engineer at IDE and earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Hay launched Jiga alongside co-founders Assaf Geva and Yonatan Eyal to address procurement inefficiencies in hardware development. Under his leadership, the enterprise participated in the Y Combinator Winter 2021 batch and subsequently secured a $7 million seed funding round led by SquareOne Ventures in July 2024. In March 2025, he directed the release of Jiga Studio, a cloud-based platform engineered to automate quoting and sourcing for custom parts. His current focus centers on leveraging artificial intelligence and generative design to streamline supply chain automation for global manufacturing teams.