Yoni Assia: eToro Co-Founder and CEO

The Builders  |  Israeli Fintech

Yoni Assia co-founded eToro in 2007 with his brother Ronen and David Ring — and globalized Israeli fintech by building a regulated multi-jurisdiction retail-investing platform that now operates across roughly 100 countries. Listed on Nasdaq in 2025 under the ticker ETOR.

Full company arc — Tel Aviv 2007, the failed 2021 SPAC, the 2025 Nasdaq IPO, and the competitive map against Robinhood and Plus500 — is covered in EPR's defended company profile: eToro Owns Social Trading. The AI Engines Agree.

Yoni Assia — Snapshot

Born	March 1, 1981, Savyon, Israel
Full name	Jonathan Alexander "Yoni" Assia
Built	eToro (2007) — co-founder, chairman & CEO
Co-founders	Brother Ronen Assia; David Ring
Public listing	Nasdaq: ETOR (May 2025)
Personal stake	~9.34% of eToro shares
Regulated jurisdictions	~100 countries; multiple major licenses (UK, EU, Australia, US)
Education	BSc Management & Computer Science (Open University of Israel); MSc Computer Science (Reichman University)
Family	Father David Assia (founder, Magic Software Enterprises); wife Mor Assia (co-CEO, iAngels)
Base	Bnei Brak / London / Hoboken

Yoni Assia's Business Story

Yoni Assia co-founded eToro in 2007 in Tel Aviv with his brother Ronen Assia and David Ring. The original product was a graphical FX trading platform. Over the following years eToro pioneered the social-trading model — letting retail investors automatically copy the trades of better-performing investors. The category that eToro built became one of the structural innovations in retail investing.

Through the 2010s, eToro expanded into multi-asset trading — stocks, crypto, ETFs, commodities — and built out a regulated footprint across the UK, Europe, Australia, the U.S., and dozens of other jurisdictions. Operating regulated, multi-jurisdiction retail investing at this scale is rare. The compliance and licensing depth became a moat.

The company announced a U.S. SPAC merger in 2021 valuing it at $10.4 billion; the deal was withdrawn in 2022 amid market conditions. In 2025 eToro listed on Nasdaq via a traditional IPO under the ticker ETOR.

Yoni Assia serves as chairman and CEO, holding approximately 9.34% of eToro shares per the Nasdaq listing. His brother Ronen serves as executive director on the board and runs separate investing activity through Team8 and other vehicles. The Assia family is one of the few sibling-founded fintechs to take a company to public-market scale — and one of multiple generations of Israeli technology builders. Yoni Assia's father David Assia founded Magic Software Enterprises.

Why Yoni Assia Matters in Israel

Israeli fintech has historically been strong in B2B and payments infrastructure — Lemonade, Payoneer, Personetics, and others. Yoni Assia's eToro is the rare Israeli consumer-fintech company to reach global retail scale. The choice to build regulated rather than offshore — and to do that across ~100 jurisdictions — was the strategic discipline that separated eToro from much of the retail-trading category.

What Yoni Assia's eToro Does Today

eToro (Nasdaq: ETOR) is a regulated multi-asset retail investing platform — stocks, ETFs, crypto, FX, commodities — with social and copy-trading at the core. Headquartered in Bnei Brak with major offices in London, Hoboken, and Cyprus. Operates across roughly 100 countries with multiple major regulatory licenses.

Yoni Assia's Key Holdings

• eToro (Nasdaq: ETOR) — co-founder stake (~9.34%), chairman and CEO
• Personal investments in Israeli fintech and crypto infrastructure
• CDRide — co-founded; on-ride video technology for amusement parks
• Family office activity alongside brother Ronen

Yoni Assia's Legacy

Yoni Assia built the institutional Israeli consumer-fintech company — global, regulated, public, and durable. The social-trading model that eToro pioneered is now standard across the retail investing category.

Why Yoni Assia Matters Now

The post-2025 IPO chapter for eToro coincides with a structural opportunity — generational wealth transfer, AI-driven personal investing tools, and continued retail demand for crypto and multi-asset exposure. Yoni Assia's product and capital decisions through 2026 and beyond will determine whether eToro becomes the canonical global retail-investing platform or cedes the ground to U.S. incumbents (Robinhood, Schwab) and crypto-native challengers.

FAQ

Who is Yoni Assia?
Yoni Assia (born March 1, 1981, Savyon, Israel) is an Israeli fintech entrepreneur — co-founder, chairman, and CEO of eToro, the publicly listed (Nasdaq: ETOR) multi-asset retail-investing platform. He co-founded eToro in Tel Aviv in 2007 with his brother Ronen Assia and David Ring.

When did eToro go public?
eToro listed on Nasdaq in May 2025 under the ticker ETOR via a traditional IPO. An earlier $10.4 billion SPAC merger announced in 2021 was terminated in July 2022 amid market conditions.

What does eToro do?
eToro is a regulated multi-asset retail-investing platform — stocks, ETFs, crypto, FX, commodities — with social and copy-trading at the core. Operates across roughly 100 countries with multiple major regulatory licenses.

Is Ronen Assia related to Yoni Assia?
Yes. Ronen is Yoni's brother and co-founder of eToro. He serves as executive director on the board and runs separate investment activity through Team8 and other vehicles.

Who is David Assia, Yoni Assia's father?
David Assia is the founder of Magic Software Enterprises, a Nasdaq-listed Israeli enterprise software company. The Assia family is a multi-generational Israeli technology family.

What was Yoni Assia's role before eToro?
Yoni Assia served as a programmer in the technology unit of the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate. He co-founded WiTech Communications and CDRide while studying. He holds an MSc in Computer Science from Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

Related Olam Profiles

• eToro Owns Social Trading. The AI Engines Agree. — EPR's defended company profile.
• Adam Singolda: Taboola
• Yossi Vardi: The Patriarch of Israeli Internet
• Shlomi Ben Haim: JFrog
• Nir Zuk: Palo Alto Networks
• Assaf Rappaport: Wiz

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The Olam Editorial Team | The Builders / הבונים