BUILDERS

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Philippe Petitpont , CEO and Co-Founder of NewsBridge , a cloud media hub platform that's raised €12.5 Million in funding. Topics Discussed: Phillippe’s career background, and the unorthodox journey that took him from rocket engineering to management of media content An overview of NewsBridge’s cloud media hub platform, and its relevance fo...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Alan Shreve , CEO and Founder of Ngrok , a unified ingress platform that has served over 6 million developers worldwide and raised $50 Million in funding.  Topics Discussed: Alan’s background and lessons from his first job What a unified ingress platform is, and why it’s crucial for developers The secrets for attracting 6 million users Whet...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Max Bruner , CEO and Founder of Anzen Insurance , a platform that is saving insurance brokers and companies thousands of hours and tons of stress, that has raised $10 Million in funding.  Topics Discussed: Max’s early background — which was unrelated to tech — and his experience in the insurance industry The surprising place of the insuranc...

In today's episode of Unicorn Builders, we speak with Arik Shtilman , CEO and Co-Founder of Rapyd , a Fintech as a service platform that's raised over $800 Million in funding, about why today’s global economy needs a new generation of payment solutions. Offering powerful fintech solutions to collect, hold and send funds across countries and between currencies with ease, Rapyd makes sure their cust...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Ravi Parikh , CEO and Co-Founder of Airplane , a developer platform for internal tooling that's raised over $40 Million in funding, about why an increasingly differentiated digital economy needs a more agile toolkit for developing solutions to specific tasks. Enabling their clients to develop internal UIs with just a few lines of code, coor...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Zamir Shukho , CEO and General Partner of Vibranium VC . Topics Discussed: Zamir's background working with startups and building acceleration programs, and what he learned about what business leaders need Vibranium VC’s focus on Silicon Valley software companies, with a particular interest in B2B SaaS, sales, marketing, fintech and media so...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Craig Unger , CEO and Founder of Hyperproof , a security assurance and compliance operations platform that's raised over $22 Million in funding, about the central role of security in developing critical cloud services, and how a trust deficit can derail even the most promising plans for the future. Hyperproof is fully committed to helping c...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Dan DeMers , CEO of Cinchy , a data collaboration platform that's raised over $24 Million in funding, about why the time has come for an alternative to rigid data contracts and the integration-heavy approach to business unit collaboration. By evolving isolated data silos into meshed products where data is well-governed white being freely av...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Hanna Asmussen , CEO and Co-Founder of Localyze , an HR platform for talent mobility that's raised over $48 Million in funding, about why today’s global economy needs a new way of connecting and hiring staff from all over the world. By taking care of every aspect of the administrative process for bringing in international staff, from up-to-...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Axel Bichara , Co-Founder and General Partner of Baukunst , a VC fund that backs creative technologies, about the key criteria they look for in prospective partners before making that ever-important early stage investment. From identifying extraordinary individuals to making sure there’s a market to be exploited, Baukunst focuses on the spa...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Mark DeSantis , CEO of Bloomfield , a Pittsburgh based AgTech startup that's raised $8.5 Million in funding, about why visual plant-level health and performance assessments are fundamental to specialty crop farming. No matter how well trained and highly motivated, visual crop assessment is subjective, but Bloomfield’s automated analysis pro...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Jon Carter , CEO and Founder of Prado , an e-commerce operating platform that's raised $5.7 Million in funding, about the challenges of chasing efficiency in the meal-plan industry, and how data can help transform the space. With a one-stop software solution covering everything from web hosting and customer fulfilment to automation for kitc...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Daniel Liebeskind , CEO and Co-Founder of Topia , a metaverse platform that's raised $6 Million in funding, about why digital worlds are the future of everything from webinars, branded content and corporate meetings tools, and how Topia is positioning themselves at the center of the next big thing. Built on allowing people to access tools 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 Chris Golec , CEO & Founder of Channel99 , a B2B marketing platform that has raised $5 Million in funding. Here are the most interesting points from our conversation: Early Career Shifts: Chris transitioned from chemical engin...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Patrick Woods , CEO and Co-Founder of Orbit , a community growth platform that's raised over $22 Million in funding, about why, in an economy where software is ‘adopted’ more than ‘sold,’ a sense of community can be a genuine driver of growth. Providing in-depth knowledge and powerful insights about sentiment, company size and almost everyo...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Finnur Pind , Co-Founder and CEO of Treble , a next generation simulation technology platform that's raised $10 Million in funding about how a new generation of sound-simulation technology is set to help build a better sounding world. Treble's Acoustic Simulation Software generates interactive, real-time, immersive auralizations of acoustic...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Benjamin Wilms , CEO and Co-Founder of Steadybit , a chaos engineering platform that's raised $7.8 Million in funding, about why resilience is everything in the modern software economy, and why so many companies struggle to build it into their more complex systems. Working with a small team of dedicated engineers, Steadybit wants to move be...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Yingjun Wu , CEO and Co-Founder of RisingWave Labs , a SQL stream processing platform that's raised $40 Million in funding, about why it’s time for a better way to leverage the potential of their data. Offering real-time insights, simplified with advanced SQL processing, RisingWave Labs helps their clients make actionable decisions based on...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Martin Einemo , CEO and Co-Founder of Insurely , an open insurance platform that's raised €22 Million in funding, about why so many of us lack true understanding of how the insurance industry operates, and why that’s a problem for both providers and their customers. By empowering insurance customers to access their data from the companies w...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Michael Konialian , Co-Founder and CEO of Modern Life , a tech-enabled insurance brokerage that’s raised over $15 Million in funding, about how a lack of clarity and access to information in the life insurance space can leave people at a loss, and how Modern Life is hoping to bring a better model of insurance brokerage to the sector. By par...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Taylor Lint , CEO and Founder of Swantide , a go to market technology platform that's raised $7 Million in funding, about why so many companies find managing their CRM such a headache, and how Swantide plans to make every aspect of the process simpler and more straightforward. With processes designed with engineering and sales operations be...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Andreas Cleve , CEO and Co-Founder of Corti , a patient consultations platform that's raised $32 Million in funding, about why so much important information from patient consultations is underutilized and ultimately wasted, and how Corti plans to change all that. By activating the data produced by every patient-provider interaction via a bl...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Andrew Scheuermann , CEO of Arch Systems , a machine data and analytics company that's raised $25 Million in funding, about the struggles people all over the world face with accessing the tools and resources necessary to build truly smart solutions. Powered by rich machine data, the Arch Systems FX Platform has been developed to automatical...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Robert Kozikowski , Chief Product Officer of Tensorflight , a property intelligence platform that's raised nearly $7 Million in funding, about why having eyes in the sky is providing critical value insights for people working in the property sector. Having honed their offering from drone analytics for agriculture to a more focused offering...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we chat with Reed Switzer , CEO of Hopscotch , an all-in-one B2B payments platform. Reed talks about his unconventional start in the B2B payments space, and how Hopscotch enables customers to achieve a frictionless payment experience by streamlining invoicing, bill pay, and cash flow management. Reed also shares his thoughts on the growth and traction th...