DealMakers

Anthemos Georgiades is the co-founder and CEO of Zumper, the largest startup in the rental industry. The company has raised $90 million from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, Kleiner Perkins, NEA, Blackstone, and now Marcus & Millichap and Axel Springer. The post Anthemos Georgiades: One Lesson That Led To Raise $90 Million From The Top Venture Capital Firms first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Anthemos Georgiades: One Lesson That Led To Raise $90 Million From The Top Venture Capital Firms appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Martin Rawls-Meehan is the cofounder and CEO at Reverie. He has taken a different route to generating $100 million in revenue a year with over 150 employees. He has proven that building a profitable company can still lead to becoming a sizable enterprise without the need of taking outside capital. One which can give you even more control over your startup and its ability to live out your vision. In our exclusive conversation he revealed some of his own startup bootstrapping hacks, hurdles you can face, and when it might be better to take that VC money, or not. The post Martin Rawls-Meehan On Bootstrapping His Startup From Zero To Over $100 Million In Revenue first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Martin Rawls-Meehan On Bootstrapping His Startup From Zero To Over $100 Million In Revenue appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Heini Zachariassen is the founder behind Vivino. He has raised for the company over $55 million to date. The app now has 33 million users, looking up around 2 million wines every single day, and is attracting 20,000 new users per day. On a recent episode of the DealMakers Podcast, Heini graced us with his presence, told us what he is drinking now, and had fun debating some of the big questions startup founders are juggling today The post Heini Zachariassen On Raising Over $55 Million To Disrupt A 6,000 Year Old Industry first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Heini Zachariassen On Raising Over $55 Million To Disrupt A 6,000 Year Old Industry appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Kevin O‘Connor founded Double Click, the advertising machine now owned by Google. A part of a bundle of services that Google ended up paying around $3.1B for. He was also an early investor in ISS which was bought by IBM for $1.5B. The post Kevin O‘Connor: Selling For $1.1 Billion By Following One Simple Rule first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Kevin O‘Connor: Selling For $1.1 Billion By Following One Simple Rule appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Julie Clark is the founder of the Baby Einstein brand. A company she built from scratch, to being bought by Disney for $25M, and becoming a $300M a year phenomenon. In our exclusive interview on the DealMakers Podcast Julie also revealed some unconventional beginnings of this household brand in the eyes of many of today’s founders. Yet, which are clearly recognizable common threads that are shared with some of the biggest tech companies, like Facebook and Microsoft. The post Julie Clark On Investing $15,000 In Her Startup And Selling It For $25 Million first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Julie Clark On Investing $15,000 In Her Startup And Selling It For $25 Million appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Michael Ellenbogen built an exited Reveal Imaging where he raised over $20M and sold to SAIC giving investors an 8x multiple of returns. Now he has cofounded Evolv Technology, has already raised $30M and has also landed investors such as Bill Gates. The post Michael Ellenbogen: From Corporate America To Startups And Landing Bill Gates As An Investor first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Michael Ellenbogen: From Corporate America To Startups And Landing Bill Gates As An Investor appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Thomas Korte is one of the founders at one of the consistently top ranked startup accelerators. They’re always up there with names like 500 Startups, Y Combinator, and TechStars. To date Angel Pad companies have raised around $1.4 billion, with Thomas’ own company having raised close to $80 million itself. The post Thomas Korte On Helping Entrepreneurs Raise Over $1.4 Billion And Building Angel Pad first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Thomas Korte On Helping Entrepreneurs Raise Over $1.4 Billion And Building Angel Pad appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Josh Hix is one of those founders who just seems to have been born with the entrepreneurial spirit. He’s been featured on Shark Tank, raised almost $100 million for his subscription startup, and sold to a larger corporation for a reported $300 million. The post Josh Hix: From 200 Investor Rejections To A $300 Million Acquisition first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Josh Hix: From 200 Investor Rejections To A $300 Million Acquisition appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

In an exclusive interview for the DealMakers podcast, Michael Litt revealed how he accelerated his startup, landed $70 Million from some of the most enviable investors on the planet, is disrupting the classic board meeting, and what it takes to get funded by him. Now he is a serious startup investor and founder at the heart of Canada’s new tech ecosystem. The post Michael Litt: From Selling Firecrackers To Landing $70 Million For His Canadian Startup first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Michael Litt: From Selling Firecrackers To Landing $70 Million For His Canadian Startup appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

With over 400 startup investments and 150 plus exits Fabrice Grinda is unquestionably one of the most experienced entrepreneurs and investors on the planet today. If anyone knows what it takes to build a scrappy and scalable startup, and how to cash in on one, it’s got to be Fabrice. In a new episode of the DealMakers podcast he pulled back the curtain on his biggest mistakes and how to hit home runs, again and again. The post Fabrice Grinda: From $100,000 In Debt To Hundreds of Millions In Exits first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Fabrice Grinda: From $100,000 In Debt To Hundreds of Millions In Exits appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.