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Julio Martinez On Raising $100 Million To Build An AI-Native Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Platform For Early Enterprise and Mid-Market Companies
Julio Martinez is the co-founder and CEO of Abacum, an AI-native Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) platform used by finance teams across 40+ countries. He has raised more than $100M from elite global funds like Scale Venture Partners, Y Combinator, C
Aneesh Reddy On Raising $300+ Million, Expanding Into 30+ Countries, And Taking His Company Public By Powering Cloud-Based Customer Loyalty Solutions For Global Enterprise Brands
Aneesh Reddy belongs to that rare category of founders who have built their companies for nearly two decades through multiple cycles, reinvented their businesses through crises, expanded across continents, and still managed to retain over 100 employees wh
Ryan Wang On Raising $71 Million To Provide Companies With An AI-Powered Customer Support Platform That Integrates WFM And AI Agents
Ryan Wang is building in one of the most consequential layers of modern software: the operational infrastructure that allows great ideas to scale without breaking. As the co-founder and CEO of Assembled, Ryan sits at the intersection of customer support,
Pierre Brossollet On Raising Over $250 Million To Harness And Provide Geothermal Energy Solutions And Extract Low-Carbon Lithium
Pierre Brossollet is the founder and CEO of Arverne, a geothermal energy company that has raised 220M ($258M), employs 250 people, has gone public, and is now pursuing more than 3B ($3.53B) in projects by 2030. The post Pierre Brossollet On Raising Ove
Nick Schrock On Raising $55 Million To Build An Open-Source Data Orchestrator Used To Build, Manage, And Observe Complex Data Pipelines
Founder of Dagster, Nick Schrocks career defies the neat, linear playbooks often associated with Silicon Valley success. He didnt follow a rigid five-year plan, nor did he obsess over titles or prestige early on. Instead, his journey has been shaped by
Joshua Silver On Selling A Company For $450 Million And Now Building A Payments-As-A-Service (PaaS) Platform For Vertical Software Companies
Founders like Joshua Silver are the architects of multiple companies, each bigger, more innovative, and more strategically positioned than the last. His entrepreneurial pathway traces his early days as a tinkerer and engineer to a $450M exit in healthcare
Lyron Bentovim On Cofounding A $100 Million AUM Hedge Fund And Now Raising $50 Million To Build A Diversified Immersive Technology Platform
Lyron Bentovims entrepreneurial career is anything but linear. His journey spans continents, cycles, and sectors. He started as an ice cream shop operator in Israel, a tech entrepreneur in the dot-com era, a hedge fund manager during the bust, and became
Orr Yarkoni On Raising $46 Million To Create Sustainable Dyes For The Textile Industry Using Synthetic Biology
Orr Yarkonis path started in academic research and went on to building Colorifix, one of the worlds most ambitious biotech-textile companies that radically reframed how biology can power industry.The post Orr Yarkoni On Raising $46 Million To Create Su
Rylan Hamilton On Selling A Company To Shopify For $450 Million And Now Raising $60 Million To Build Autonomous Naval Vessels
Rylans story is shaped by discipline, risk, curiosity, and a relentless drive to tackle problems on a global scale. Today, as the co-founder of Blue Water Autonomy, Rylan is building fully autonomous ocean-going vessels that can travel across open waters
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 Borodachs 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 st





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