DealMakers

Michael Wystrach is the co-founder and CEO of Freshly which delivers gourmet ready-made meals, prepared and delivered to your door. The company so far has raised $110 million from investors such as Highland Capital Partners, Slow Ventures, Insight Partners, Alumni Ventures Group, Total Access Fund, White Star Capital, Monkish Equity, The Yard Ventures, Chestnut Street Ventures, and Blue Ivy Ventures to name a few.  The post Michael Wystrach On Raising Over $100M To Deliver Chef-Cooked Meals To Your Door first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Michael Wystrach On Raising Over $100M To Deliver Chef-Cooked Meals To Your Door appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Bhavin Turakhia is a serial entrepreneur that has found five companies. The first company he started at 17 got acquired for $160 million. He is presently heading Radix - a leading registry for top-level extensions, Flock - a suite of productivity apps, and Zeta - a digital payments platform. Radix is a $200 million company, Flock he has invested his personal wealth on, and Zeta has raised already over $60 million.  The post Bhavin Turakhia: The Billionaire That Started His First Business At 17 first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Bhavin Turakhia: The Billionaire That Started His First Business At 17 appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Immad Akhund is the co-founder and CEO of Mercury which is a bank for startups, engineered in Silicon Valley for tech companies. The company has raised over $25 million from investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Charles River Ventures. Prior to this, he cofounded Heyzap which he sold for $45 million.  The post Immad Akhund On Selling His Business For $45M And Then Raising Millions To Create A Bank For Startups first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Immad Akhund On Selling His Business For $45M And Then Raising Millions To Create A Bank For Startups appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Austin Russell is the cofounder and CEO of Luminar which is an autonomous vehicle sensor and software company. The company has raised over $250 million from investors like Peter Thiel, The Westle Group, Canvas Ventures, Moore Capital, 1517 Fund, GVA Capital, Invariantes Fund, and Corning to name a few. The post Austin Russell On Starting His Business At 16 And Raising $250M To Make Self-Driving Cars A Reality first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Austin Russell On Starting His Business At 16 And Raising $250M To Make Self-Driving Cars A Reality appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Rebecca Minkoff is the founder and creative force behind Rebecca Minkoff, which is a fashion brand distributed in 900 stores worldwide. The company is doing more than $100M in revenue. Rebecca Minkoff also established Female Founder Collective, a network of businesses led by women that invests in women. The post Rebecca Minkoff On Building A $100 Million Fashion Brand By Using Tech To Drive Sales Growth first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Rebecca Minkoff On Building A $100 Million Fashion Brand By Using Tech To Drive Sales Growth appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Eric Kinariwala is the founder and CEO of Capsule is a healthcare technology business rebuilding the pharmacy from the inside out. The company has raised so far $270 million from TCV, Thrive Capital, Sound Ventures, Virgin Group, M13, and Glade Brook Capital Partners.  The post Eric Kinariwala On Raising $270 Million To Bring The $350 Billion Pharmacy Market Online first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Eric Kinariwala On Raising $270 Million To Bring The $350 Billion Pharmacy Market Online appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Thejo Kote is the co-founder and CEO of Airbase which is an all-in-one platform for spend management, giving companies unprecedented financial control and visibility. The company has raised so far $7 million from First Round Capital, BoxGroup, Village Global, and Quiet Capital. Prior to this, Thejo Kote sold a company for over $100 million. The post Thejo Kote On Selling His Business For $100M And Raising $7M To Help Businesses Control Their Spending first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Thejo Kote On Selling His Business For $100M And Raising $7M To Help Businesses Control Their Spending appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Dimitri Sirota is the cofounder and CEO of BigID which develops a software that helps companies have a secure customer data and satisfy privacy regulations. The company has raised so far $96 million from investors such as Bessemer Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Western Technology Investment, Boldstart Ventures, and Deepfork Capital to name a few. Prior to this the founded wo enterprise software companies focused on security (eTunnels) and API management (Layer 7 Technologies), which was sold to CA Technologies in 2013 for $200M. The post Dimitri Sirota On Selling His Business For $200M And Now Raising $100M To Address Concerns With Data Security first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Dimitri Sirota On Selling His Business For $200M And Now Raising $100M To Address Concerns With Data Security appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Chuck Cohn is the co-founder and CEO of Varsity Tutors which is a live learning platform that connects students and professionals with personalized instruction to achieve any goal. The company has raised so far over $100 million from investors such as TCV, Learn Capital, and the Chan Zuckerberg initiative to name a few.  The post Chuck Cohn On Starting His Business In College And Raising $110M To Give You Matrix Style Learning With Just A Click first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Chuck Cohn On Starting His Business In College And Raising $110M To Give You Matrix Style Learning With Just A Click appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Ben Sigelman is a co-founder and CEO at LightStep, a company that makes complex microservice applications more transparent and reliable. The company has raised $70 million from investors like Sequoia Capital, Redpoint, Harrison Metal, Cowboy Ventures, and Altimer Capital. Prior to this, he was an employee at Google for nine years.  The post Ben Sigelman On Building A Core Technology At Google And Now Raising $70M To Change The DNA Of Software Development first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Ben Sigelman On Building A Core Technology At Google And Now Raising $70M To Change The DNA Of Software Development appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.