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Bootstrapping Using Services from The Netherlands to a $300M+ Exit: Quintiq and ActiVote Founder Victor Allis (Part 1)
Victor bootstrapped Quintiq to $30M, raised funding, and then sold the company for over $300M. ActiVote is his second startup, currently self-funded. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start from the beginning. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?
Bootstrapping a RegTech Venture to $20M: PerformLine CEO Alex Baydin (Part 1)
RegTech is emerging to become a category of its own with numerous risk and compliance issues getting addressed by technology solutions. Alex has bootstrapped a wonderful business and is now doing a private equity-driven roll-up within the space. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were
Female Entrepreneur Scaling a PropTech Venture with Over $40M in Funding: PunchListUSA CEO Min Alexander (Part 1)
Min tells a wonderful story of building a scaling a PropTech company with significant funding at a $100M+ valuation. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?
Building a High-Growth Startup From Brazil: Revelo CEO Lachlan de Crespigny (Part 1)
Lachlan has built a wonderful company from Brazil that has emerged as a pandemic beneficiary.Read on for the nuances of his journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised and in what kind of background?
Twin Brothers Building a FinTech Venture: Stephen Roche and Gabino Roche, CoFounders of Saphyre (Part 1)
Gabino and Stephen have built a wonderful FinTech company and tell their story with wonderful flair and candor. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of your journey. Where were you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? You are twin brothers. I think this is my first case
Bootstrapping a FinTech Startup by Piggybacking with Services: Quavo Co-Founder David Chmielewski (Part 1)
Dave transitioned from a developer to an entrepreneur by leveraging his solid domain knowledge in a particular area of FinTech: dispute resolution for credit card transactions. He and his co-founders effectively used bootstrapping using services and piggybacked on the Pega Systems platform. Read on to learn more about his journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at
A Journey into Personalized Luxury Fashion: Editorialist YX CEO Rafael Ortiz (Part 1)
As you know, I have a passion for personalized luxury fashion and ventured into that market early on in 1999 when the market wasn’t quite ready for it yet. Rafael is building a wonderful luxury fashion venture with unique personalization details. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you
Building a Global Hardcore Financial Technology Company from Brazil: Ricardo Josua, CEO of Pismo (Part 1)
We don’t hear of hardcore B-to-B technology ventures coming out of Latin America very often.Ricardo is building one that caters to banks and financial institutions, has raised over $100M in financing, has over $25M in revenue, and has major Latin American banks as customers. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey.