Joshua Silver On Selling A Company For $450 Million And Now Building A Payments-As-A-Service (PaaS) Platform For Vertical Software Companies

Nick Schrock’s career defies the neat, linear playbooks often associated with Silicon Valley success. He didn’t follow a rigid five-year plan, nor did he obsess over titles or prestige early on. Instead, his journey has been shaped by systems thinking and cultural curiosity. The post He Raised $55 Million To Build An Open-Source Data Orchestrator Used To Build, Manage, And Observe Complex Data Pipelines appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Founder of Dagster, Nick Schrock’s career defies the neat, linear playbooks often associated with Silicon Valley success. He didn’t follow a rigid five-year plan, nor did he obsess over titles or prestige early on. Instead, his journey has been shaped by systems thinking and cultural curiosity. The post Nick Schrock On Raising $55 Million To Build An Open-Source Data Orchestrator Used To Build, Manage, And Observe Complex Data Pipelines appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

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 payments. The post Joshua Silver On Selling A Company For $450 Million And Now Building A Payments-As-A-Service (PaaS) Platform For Vertical Software Companies appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Lyron Bentovim’s 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 a public company turnaround executive. The post Lyron Bentovim On Cofounding A $100 Million AUM Hedge Fund And Now Raising $50 Million To Build A Diversified Immersive Technology Platform appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Orr Yarkoni’s path started in academic research and went on to building Colorifix, one of the world’s most ambitious biotech-textile companies that radically reframed how biology can power industry. The post Orr Yarkoni On Raising $46 Million To Create Sustainable Dyes For The Textile Industry Using Synthetic Biology appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Rylan’s 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 for months at a time. The post Rylan Hamilton On Selling A Company To Shopify For $450 Million And Now Raising $60 Million To Build Autonomous Naval Vessels appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Some founders are shaped by success. But Ben Borodach’s 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 stumble. The post 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 appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Some founders plan every move years in advance. But Sudheesh Nair, the co-founder and CEO of TinyFish, thrives in the chaos of serendipity, making the right choices with the data at hand, learning quickly, and never looking back. The post Sudheesh Nair On Raising $47 Million To Develop And Operate “Enterprise Web Agents” That Replicate Human Interactions Online appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Some founders stumble into the frontier. Others live there by instinct. Stefano Ermon, an Italian-born scientist, Stanford professor, and co-founder of Inception, is firmly in the second camp. Stefano was working on the foundations of generative AI long before it became a phrase on every investor deck and conference stage. The post Stefano Ermon On Raising $50 Million To Enable Businesses To Create 10x Faster, Real-Time AI Applications appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Some founders dream of billion-dollar outcomes. Others quietly stack experiences, industry by industry and skill by skill, until their time arrives. Michel Tricot is the latter. Before co-founding Airbyte and raising $185M, Michel helped build two companies that sold for $300M and $115M, respectively. The post Michel Tricot On Raising $185 Million To Build An Open-Source Data Integration Platform To Move Data From Various Sources Into Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, And Databases appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.