Felipe Gomez Herrera On Raising $115 Million In Equity And Debt Funding To Build A “Bank For Healthcare” In Latin America

Few founders embody the entrepreneurship journey better than Jagdeep Singh. In reality, building transformative companies is a long journey of curiosity, persistence, and disciplined problem-solving. It’s never about a series of lightning strikes of ideas and overnight successes, as often portrayed. The post Jagdeep Singh On Selling A Company For $550 Million, Taking Another Public At $1.2 Billion And Raising A Historic $450 Million Series A Round To Build Humanoid Robots To Transform The Future Of Work appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Felipe grew up in Colombia, worked in consulting, studied at Harvard Business School, and witnessed firsthand the massive gap in healthcare access across Latin America. Today, he is building Welli, a fintech company that expands access to healthcare. The post Felipe Gomez Herrera On Raising $115 Million In Equity And Debt Funding To Build A “Bank For Healthcare” In Latin America appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Most startup stories follow a familiar arc—an idea, early traction, a grind toward product-market fit, and eventually, scale. Wen Sang’s journey breaks that pattern. After building, scaling, and exiting his first company, he went on to start another startup, Genspark.ai. The post Wen Sang On Raising $460 Million To Build A Unicorn That Reached Over $155 Million ARR In 10 Months appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

David Metz is the founder and CEO of Prizeout, a fintech platform that powers rewards and monetization programs for financial institutions, David has raised over $64M and built a company on the brink of profitability. But his journey there was anything but linear. The post David Metz On Raising $64 Million To Enable Users To Withdraw Rewards From Partner Platforms And Receive Bonuses appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

For Tikue Anazodo, founder and CEO of Kudos, his entrepreneurial journey began long before Silicon Valley—long before Google, Microsoft, Affirm, or Shopify. It started in Lagos, Nigeria, in an environment where entrepreneurship wasn’t a career choice. It was a necessity. The post Tikue Anazodo On Raising Over $20 Million To Build An AI-Powered Smart Wallet Service That Optimizes Consumer Rewards And Benefits On Purchase appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Doug’s story also captures what it truly takes to build financial infrastructure in an emerging market: resilience, humility, and a deep respect for capital. In this engrossing interview, he discusses the challenges he faced in building, scaling, and raising funding for SWAP. The post Doug Storf On Raising ~$30 Million To Build The Leading Banking-As-A-Service Infrastructure Platform For B2B Businesses In Brazil appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Yuval Golan's is a story of how a kid from Startup Nation became a global entrepreneur, survived geopolitical gray zones, navigated China, COVID, capital markets, and ultimately built a platform designed to fix one of the most broken systems in the world: cross-border real estate ownership. The post Yuval Golan On Building A FinTech Platform To Enable Non-US Citizens To Buy Assets In The $50 Trillion US Real Estate Marketplace appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Ben Freeman’s story is not one of overnight success or neatly plotted career moves. It is a story of friction—between old-economy instincts and venture-scale ambition, between external validation and internal conviction, and between momentum and meaning. The post Ben Freeman On Raising ~$75 Million To Build An AI-Native Procurement Platform That Automates And Streamlines The Entire Buying Process For Businesses appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Tomas Bercovich’s entrepreneurship path was never a straight line. All through, it has been a sequence of experiments, pivots, hard decisions, and compounding lessons; each one sharpening his instincts for what truly matters when building enduring companies. The post Tomas Bercovich On Processing Over $7 Billion Through A LatAm Fintech Platform Enabling Cross-Border, Multi-Currency Money Transfers appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

When Philipp Heltewig talks about his journey, he does not describe “building a startup.” He talks about building a real company, one that hits its KPIs, scales globally, survives shocks like COVID, and rides new technology waves like generative AI. The post Philipp Heltewig On Raising $169 Million To Build The Global Leader In Conversational AI And Then Selling The Company To NICE For $1+ Billion appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.