About
Eli Finkelshteyn is the founder and CEO of Constructor, a company focused on search and product discovery for large websites. Before founding Constructor, he worked for over a decade as a data scientist and engineer specializing in machine learning, natural language processing, and distributed computing.
Founder at Constructor
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Constructor's investors · 6
FusionPalo Alto · $500K – $1M checks · since 2017Greencode VenturesHelsinki · $5.4M checks · since 2026Sapphire VenturesMenlo Park · $5M – $20M checks · since 2017Silversmith Capital PartnersBoston · $20M – $125M checks · since 2017xista science venturesKlosterneuburg · $162K – $4.3M checks · since 2026Zetta Venture PartnersSan Francisco · $1M – $5M checks · since 2017
Co-founders at Constructor
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Dan McCormickFounder, former CTO at Shutterstock
Experience
- ConstructorFounder and CEOcurrent2015 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- mu venturesAdvisorcurrent2022 — present
- Extruct AIAdvisorcurrent2024 — present
- Eli Does DataData Science Engineer2014San Francisco Bay Area
- The BackPlane Inc.Lead Data Scientist2012 — 2014San Francisco Bay Area
- ShutterstockSoftware Engineer, Data Science2011 — 2012Greater New York City Area
- TumblrData Engineer2011Greater New York City Area
- FactSet Research SystemsSoftware Engineer, Natural Language Processing2010 — 2011
- Brandeis UniversityLead Web Developer / IT - CMJS2006 — 2010Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
- Brandeis UniversityTeaching Assistant in Econometrics2009
- Brandeis UniversityLatin Group Study Leader2008
- Brandeis UniversityTeaching Assistant in Computer Science2007 — 2008
- Brandeis UniversityWeb Designer2005 — 2007
Skills & more
Hebrew3Spanish3Machine Learning30Information Retrieval4Natural Language Processing25Pig3Perforce2Foreign Languages4Data Mining8Redis1Computational Linguistics6Information Extraction2
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Big DataComputer ScienceApache PigWeb Services APIBig Data AnalyticsAlgorithmsSQLPythonJavaPerlBashHadoopLanguages Aramaic · Croatian · English · Hebrew · Latin · Russian · Spanish
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Eli Finkelshteyn?
- Eli Finkelshteyn is the founder and CEO of Constructor, a company focused on search and product discovery for large websites. Before founding Constructor, he worked for over a decade as a data scientist and engineer specializing in machine learning, natural language processing, and distributed computing.
- Where does Eli Finkelshteyn work?
- Eli Finkelshteyn is Founder of Constructor.
- What companies did Eli Finkelshteyn found?
- Eli Finkelshteyn founded Constructor.
- Where did Eli Finkelshteyn go to school?
- Eli Finkelshteyn studied at Brandeis University (Master of Arts, Computational Linguistics); Brandeis University (Bachelor of Sciences, Computer Science).
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Shared employers
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