DealMakers

Alejandro Cremades
DealMakers
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  • Isaiah Granet On Raising Over $56 Million To Build A Specialized Platform For Creating, Deploying, And Scaling AI-Powered Voice Agents Similar To Humans On Phone Calls

    2026/05/01 | 26 mins.
    From sleeping on a closet floor in San Francisco to betting his company on a $1M GPU commitment with only $400K in the bank, Isaiah’s journey traces the path of hiring non-traditional talent, adapting to unfavorable capital markets, and operating with urgency when the odds are stacked against you.

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  • Ali Agha On Raising $400 Million To Build AI-Driven Brains That Enable Robots To Operate Autonomously In Complex, Dynamic Real-World Environments Without GPS

    2026/04/30 | 35 mins.
    Ali Agha is among the rare founders who have bridged the gap between the fascinating world of theoretical robotics and reliable, real-world applications. He has overcome the challenges in the promising field of robotics, which, up until now, has only been impressive in controlled spaces.

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  • Founder/Investor/Author Frank Rotman On Cofounding A Venture Capital Fund, Managing $4.5 Billion In AUM, And Now Building A Startup Studio

    2026/04/29 | 36 mins.
    Frank Rotman’s journey is one of rare breadth—spanning early artificial intelligence (AI) research, hypergrowth fintech operations, venture investing at scale, and now a return to building from the ground up.

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  • Andrew Alex On Bootstrapping A $40 Million Revenue-Generating SaaS And Cloud Spend Management Platform, Enabling Companies To Reduce Software Costs By Up To 35%

    2026/04/28 | 26 mins.
    Instead of relying on institutional capital, he bootstrapped his way to building Spendbase into a $40M+ revenue business, guided by a simple but powerful principle: build products that deliver real value, and customers will sell them for you.

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  • Michael Mandel On Raising $80 Million To Build A Crowdsourced Commercial Real Estate (CRE) Data Platform To Streamline The Real Estate Industry

    2026/04/25 | 27 mins.
    Michael Mandel’s entrepreneurial path began inside one of the most relationship-driven and data-fragmented industries in the world: commercial real estate.

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About DealMakers

Welcome to the DealMakers show, hosted by Alejandro Cremades. Alejandro is a serial entrepreneur, best-selling author, and cofounder at Panthera Advisors (M&A and fundraising advisory). On this podcast you will find weekly interviews with entrepreneurs that have been very successful at raising capital or getting their company acquired. You can learn more at https://alejandrocremades.com/
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