Ben Borodach On Raising $80 Million To Build An AI-Driven Tax Platform To Enable Users To Plan And Manage Their Taxes Throughout The Year
Some founders are shaped by success. But Ben Borodach’s journey is forged by the lessons of failure, reflection, and the relentless pursuit of doing it better the second time around. The co-founder and CEO of april, he learned extensively from an early stumble.
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Sudheesh Nair On Raising $47 Million To Develop And Operate “Enterprise Web Agents” That Replicate Human Interactions Online
Some founders plan every move years in advance. But Sudheesh Nair, the co-founder and CEO of TinyFish, thrives in the chaos of serendipity, making the right choices with the data at hand, learning quickly, and never looking back.
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Stefano Ermon On Raising $50 Million To Enable Businesses To Create 10x Faster, Real-Time AI Applications
Some founders stumble into the frontier. Others live there by instinct. Stefano Ermon, an Italian-born scientist, Stanford professor, and co-founder of Inception, is firmly in the second camp. Stefano was working on the foundations of generative AI long before it became a phrase on every investor deck and conference stage.
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Michel Tricot On Raising $185 Million To Build An Open-Source Data Integration Platform To Move Data From Various Sources Into Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, And Databases
Some founders dream of billion-dollar outcomes. Others quietly stack experiences, industry by industry and skill by skill, until their time arrives. Michel Tricot is the latter. Before co-founding Airbyte and raising $185M, Michel helped build two companies that sold for $300M and $115M, respectively.
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Jason Johnson On Raising $70 Million To Pioneer Bluetooth Smart Locks And Now Building His Next Intelligent Home Venture
Jason Johnson’s entrepreneurial journey is the kind that lives at the intersection of tech history and personal resilience. He talks about building, scaling, and exiting, as well as navigating the different cycles of company building with Darwin Networks and August Locks.
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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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