DealMakers

Alejandro Cremades
DealMakers
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  • Private Equity Investor-Turned-Founder Bill Lenihan On Raising $25 Million To Solve Energy Access For 3 Billion People

    2026/03/17 | 27 mins.
    Bill Lenihan’s entrepreneurial path didn’t start as an engineer, product builder, or early startup operator. Instead, his career began in the structured world of finance—investment banking and private equity—before evolving into technology operations and eventually entrepreneurship.

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  • John Howard On Raising $52 Million to Create an “Intentional Commerce” Ecosystem

    2026/03/15 | 26 mins.
    While many startup founders begin as engineers, product builders, or early-stage operators, John Howard took a very different path. His entrepreneurial journey began in unexpected places—the structured, high-stakes world of investment banking and private equity.

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  • Andrew Antos On Raising Over $90 Million To Automate Document-Intensive Workflows, Reduce Manual Work, And Increase Efficiency

    2026/03/14 | 27 mins.
    For Andrew Antos, the path to building a successful AI company began in an unlikely place: a family of scientists in the post-communist Czech Republic, followed by a brief career in law, and eventually a leap into the startup ecosystem at Harvard and MIT.

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  • Constantin Schroder On Raising $50 Million To Build An AI-Native Property Management Company That Optimizes Short-Term And Vacation Rentals To Maximize Revenue For Owners

    2026/03/13 | 28 mins.
    Constantin Schröder’s entrepreneurial journey started long before he launched his first company. The mindset—discipline, resilience, and the ability to learn from failure—developed through experiences that seemed unrelated at the time.

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  • Jagdeep Singh On Selling A Company For $550 Million, Taking Another Public At $1.2 Billion And Raising A Historic $450 Million Series A Round To Build Humanoid Robots To Transform The Future Of Work

    2026/03/12 | 35 mins.
    Few founders embody the entrepreneurship journey better than Jagdeep Singh. In reality, building transformative companies is a long journey of curiosity, persistence, and disciplined problem-solving. It’s never about a series of lightning strikes of ideas and overnight successes, as often portrayed.

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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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