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In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Ashish Nagar , CEO of Level AI , a contact center software platform that’s raised over $35 Million in funding, about why machine learning might just finally be the customer service solution the market has been searching for. AI has come a long way in recent years, with increasingly sophisticated solutions available to emulate the human expe...

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with Leena Joshi , CEO & Co-Founder of CloseFactor , a sales tech platform that has raised $4.5 Million in funding. Here are the most interesting points from the conversation: Innovative Use of AI in Sales: CloseFactor aims to auto...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Ryan Schonfeld , CEO of Hivewatch , a physical security platform that’s raised over $25 Million in funding, about how contemporary security needs are evolving, and not just in cyberspace. Hivewatch was founded to update the antiquated approaches of established players in the physical security industry, providing seamless, highly-efficient s...

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with Michael Assraf , CEO & Co-Founder of Vicarius , a vulnerability remediation platform that has raised $29 Million in funding. Here are the most interesting points from our conversation: Hands-On Leadership: Despite leading a co...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Matei Stratan , CEO of Ogre , an energy management platform that’s raised over $2 Million in funding, about exactly why energy management is critical for our transition to a better energy future, and how Ogre's grid-level AI is set to be a critical part of its infrastructure. Providing the world's first 360-degree view of the entire energy...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with  Ramiro Berrelleza , CEO of  Okteto , a software development microservices platform that’s raised over $18 Million in funding. Topics Discussed: A lifetime in tech, how computer games led Ramiro to cloud-integrated software solutions Leaving Mexico to pursue a career in big tech and what ‘becoming Californian’ means for a Mexican migrant Ho...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Kian Katanforoosh , CEO of Workera , a skills intelligence platform that’s raised over $21 Million in funding, about why the future economy demands a more streamlined approach to skills development, and how deep learning is going to provide the framework to keep workers ahead of the curve. By providing a personalized learning system based o...

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with Steve Berneman , CEO & Co-Founder of Blueprint Title , a digital platform redefining the title and closing experience that's raised over $24 Million in funding. Here are the most interesting points from our conversation: Indus...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Alex Kouts , CEO of Indigov , a civic relations platform that’s raised over $38 Million in funding, about why innovation in the way we interact with state institutions might just be the key to preserving our democracy. We might not agree about exactly how it should function, but most people agree that democratic institutions are one of our...

Tommy Dang is the Co-founder & CEO of Mage , an open-source tool for building and deploying data pipelines. Mage helps data engineers synchronize data from 3rd party sources, build real-time and batch pipelines to transform data, and orchestrate thousands of pipelines without losing sleep. Topics Discussed: Tommy’s career journey in tech, and the core values he learned from working at Airbnb as a...

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with Nicholas Freund , Founder & CEO of Workstream , an analytics platform that's raised $7 Million in funding. Here are the most interesting points from our conversation: Elon Musk’s Influence: Nick shared how working at Tesla dur...

Kacper Nowicki is the Co-founder and CEO of Nomagic , an AI and robotics  fulfillment automation company providing smart pick-and-place robotic systems for e-commerce and retail warehouses.  With Kacper and his team’s expertise in robotics, cloud and deep learning, combined with their experience in logistics, Nomagic is able to help e-Commerce and retail operators build their fulfillment systems t...

Tom Lee is the Co-founder of LOVO AI , a California-based AI voice & synthetic speech company. LOVO’s platform accelerates content production by giving creators access to highly adaptable AI voiceovers, synthetic speech, and custom voice cloning capabilities. In this episode, Tom shares how having the right team culture and employing a product-led growth approach has helped LOVO rise above the noi...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Adrian Ferrero , CEO of Biome Makers , an agriculture technology startup that’s raised over $24 Million in funding, about why it’s time we let data drive decisions about our relationship with the natural world, in ways that can be both beneficial to the environment, and also make great business sense. Biome Makers was founded with a mission...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Joseph Fung , CEO of Uvaro , a career success platform that’s raised over $15million in funding, about why reframing a host of familiar categories like recruitment and training support leads to a whole new approach to business that puts people first. Career success means taking a human-oriented approach to professional development, helping...

David King Lassman is the Founder of GigXR , a global provider of immersive extended reality training solutions that aims to transform collaborative learning in healthcare education. In this episode, David shares how he saw a big potential in the application of mixed reality in education, and the serendipitous moment when he was able to acquire immersive learning research assets from another compa...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Charlie Andersen , CEO of Burro , an autonomous farming startup that’s raised over $12 Million in funding, about why human-robot collaboration is the future of the agriculture sector. Having grown up on a farm, Charlie understands the challenges facing contemporary farmers more than most people. Burro is determined to provide scalable, prac...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Saket Saurabh , CEO of Nexla , a no-code data operations platform that’s raised over $15 Million in funding, about why the limitations of our analytics are stifling the tremendous potential of the data we all generate. Working over several years to produce a market-ready solution to most people’s near total data illiteracy, Nexla is ready t...

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with Eric Velasquez Frenkiel , CEO & Founder of Pomelo , a money transfer platform that's raised over $70 Million in funding. Here are the most interesting points from our conversation: Innovative Money Transfer: Pomelo uses credit...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Ryan Lasmaili , CEO of Vaultree , an encryption as a service platform that’s raised over $16 Million in funding, about why we need a new solution focused on working with encrypted data to plug some serious leaks in our security system, Vaultree has spent more than 8 years developing an entirely unique software solution, allowing people to a...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Ivan Maryasin , CEO of Monite , an automated finance management platform that’s raised over $6 Million in funding, about why it just makes sense to automate the way you manage your money, and how Monite’s plug-in solution promises a seamless translation to more effective financial management for SMEs in the SaaS sector and beyond. Listening...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Agapitos Diakogiannis , CEO of Seafair , a maritime recruitment platform that’s raised over $6.5million in funding, about why hiring the right staff in the maritime industry is one of the world’s most significant recruitment challenges, and how mistakes in this largely unseen network can have very real consequences for supply lines, energy,...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with TJ Jermoluk , CEO of Beyond Identity , a passwordless authentication platform that’s raised over $200 Million in funding, about why it’s time to address the fundamental flaw in the way we’ve all been running our security. We all know that sharing passwords is a no-no, but it’s built into the alphanumeric system on which our traditional secu...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Ramiro Berrelleza , CEO of Okteto , a software development microservices platform that’s raised over $18 Million in funding, about how inefficiencies in software development cycles can undermine long-term business success, and why Okteto saw this challenge as an opportunity to carve out a new market category. By providing cloud-integrated d...

Rodney Reisdorf , CEO of Verivend , a payments platform operating exclusively in the private capital space, about why this most finance-orientated sector has been left behind by the fintech revolution, and how Verivend is set to disrupt the way transactions take place. By providing a seamless, streamlined platform for moving venture capital and private equity money around, emulating the success of...