DealMakers

Tom Livne is the co-founder and CEO of Verbit.ai which specializes in combining human and artificial intelligence to provide transcription and captioning solutions. The company has raised over $65 million from investors such as Vertex Ventures, Viola Ventures, Vintage Investment Partners, and Stripes.  The post Tom Livne On Raising $65 Million To Bring Artificial Intelligence To Transcriptions first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Tom Livne On Raising $65 Million To Bring Artificial Intelligence To Transcriptions appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Ryan Disraeli is the cofounder of TeleSign which is the leading provider of single-platform global communications and trusted identity data solutions. The company raised $78 million from investors like Telstra Ventures, March Capital Partners, and Summit Partners. Ultimately it was acquired for $230 million by BICS. The post Ryan Disraeli On Starting His Business As A Teenager And Selling It For $230M first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Ryan Disraeli On Starting His Business As A Teenager And Selling It For $230M appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

David Richards is the co-founder and CEO of WANdisco which enables the replication of continuously changing data to different environments. The company has raised $120M by going public early without the need for traditional funding sources used by early-stage companies. He is a serial entrepreneur that has previously built, scaled, and exited multiple companies. The post David Richards On Raising $120 Million Without Venture Capital And Then Defeating A Boardroom Coup first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post David Richards On Raising $120 Million Without Venture Capital And Then Defeating A Boardroom Coup appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Robert Sadow and Jonathan Sadow are the cofounders of Scoop which brings commuters together in convenient carpools by partnering with their employers. The company has raised so far over $100 million from top tier investors including Activate Capital Partners, Index Ventures, G2VP, and Signia Venture Partners to name a few. The post Robert Sadow And Jonathan Sadow On Raising $100 Million To Reinvent How You Commute To Work first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Robert Sadow And Jonathan Sadow On Raising $100 Million To Reinvent How You Commute To Work appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Mark Sears is the co-founder and CEO of CloudFactory which is a distributed workforce company for automating business processes. The company has raised $70 million so far from investors such as FTV Capital, Sovereign‘s Capital, The Social Entrepreneurs Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, Weatherfront Capital, and Dolma Impact Fund to name a few. The post Mark Sears On Starting His Business In Nepal, Raising $70 Million, And Hiring 400 People first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Mark Sears On Starting His Business In Nepal, Raising $70 Million, And Hiring 400 People appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Fredrik Skantze is the co-founder and CEO of Funnel which designs and develops software/platforms that help marketers automate their data collection for reporting and analysis. The company has raised so far $65 million from investors such as Eight Roads Ventures, Balderton Capital, F-Prime Capital, and Industrifonden to name a few. The post Fredrik Skantze On Being Forced To Close Down His First Business And Now Raising $65M To Prepare Marketing Data For Better Reporting first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Fredrik Skantze On Being Forced To Close Down His First Business And Now Raising $65M To Prepare Marketing Data For Better Reporting appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Idriss Al Rifai is the co-founder and CEO of Fetchr which is an international express, mail delivery, and logistics services company. The business has raised so far $100 million from top tier investors including New Enterprise Associates (NEA), NGP Capital, Winklevos Capital, and Mobility Ventures to name a few. The post Idriss Al Rifai: From Pro Basketball Player To Building A Business With 5,000 Employees first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Idriss Al Rifai: From Pro Basketball Player To Building A Business With 5,000 Employees appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Jack Smith is a serial entrepreneur. Most recently he cofounded Vungle which provides a way for developers to put video ads in their apps. The company raised $25 million and was recently acquired for over $750 million. The post Jack Smith On Starting His First Business At 13 And Selling His Recent Startup For Over $750 Million first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Jack Smith On Starting His First Business At 13 And Selling His Recent Startup For Over $750 Million appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Jason Tan is the CEO and co-founder of Sift, a San Francisco-based technology company that fights online fraud with large-scale machine learning. The company has raised over $100 million from top tier investors like Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, Founder Collective, Union Square Ventures, and Spark Capital. The post Jason Tan On Raising $100 Million To Make The Internet Safer first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Jason Tan On Raising $100 Million To Make The Internet Safer appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Murli Thirumale is the co-founder and CEO of Portworx which is the solution for stateful containers running in production. The company has raised over $50 million from HPE, Cisco, GE, and others. Prior to this, Murli Thirumale worked at Dell (following a successful acquisition), Citrix (also post-acquisition) and HP in executive roles. The post Murli Thirumale: His First Business Was Acquired By Citrix, His Second By Dell, And Now Raised $50 Million For His Next Startup first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Murli Thirumale: His First Business Was Acquired By Citrix, His Second By Dell, And Now Raised $50 Million For His Next Startup appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.