Podcast - Alejandro Cremades
Welcome to the DealMakers show, hosted by Alejandro Cremades. Alejandro is a serial entrepreneur, best-selling author, and cofounder at Panthera Advisors (M&A and fundraising advisory). On this podcast you will find interviews with entrepreneurs that have been very successful at raising capital or getting their company acquired. You will learn what they did right and what mistakes they made through the process of closing the deal. DealMakers is the ultimate guide for entrepreneurs and senior executives that are in the process of fundraising or selling their company.
David Dorfman On Building And Selling A Company In An Eight-Figure Exit And Now Tackling A $72 Billion Problem Affecting Millions Of Americans – Unclaimed Funds in State Databases
David Dorfman’s path to entrepreneurship often begins with a simple observation: something is broken, inefficient, or unnecessarily difficult. His first company is YAPI, a dental software platform and the second is Blue Navy Recovery.
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Alex Haro On Raising Over $100 Million To Enable Standard Bluetooth Devices To Communicate Directly With Satellites From Anywhere On Earth
Most founders dream of building a company that changes an industry—Alex Haro built one that changed how families stay connected. Co-founder of Life360, he is currently building Hubble Network and has raised over $100M for the company.
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Simon Bushell On Raising $80 Million To Turn Industrial Assets, Batteries, And Renewables Into Grid-Stabilizing Energy Resources
When Simon Bushell reflects on his journey, it doesn’t start in a boardroom or a lab—it starts outdoors. That early exposure to nature quietly shaped a worldview and a deep conviction that climate change is the most important problem humanity needs to solve.
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Yoav Regev On Raising Over $100 Million To Build A Cloud-Native Data Security Platform (DSP/DSPM) To Help Organizations Discover, Classify, and Secure Sensitive Data In The AI Era
Yoav Regev’s entrepreneurial path began with 25 years in the military and culminated in the founding of a category-defining cybersecurity company, Sentra. Today, he stands at the crux of resilience, people, and an obsession with solving one of the most basic problems in technology: securing data.
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Isaiah Granet On Raising Over $56 Million To Build A Specialized Platform For Creating, Deploying, And Scaling AI-Powered Voice Agents Similar To Humans On Phone Calls
From sleeping on a closet floor in San Francisco to betting his company on a $1M GPU commitment with only $400K in the bank, Isaiah’s journey traces the path of hiring non-traditional talent, adapting to unfavorable capital markets, and operating with urgency when the odds are stacked against you.
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Ali Agha On Raising $400 Million To Build AI-Driven Brains That Enable Robots To Operate Autonomously In Complex, Dynamic Real-World Environments Without GPS
Ali Agha is among the rare founders who have bridged the gap between the fascinating world of theoretical robotics and reliable, real-world applications. He has overcome the challenges in the promising field of robotics, which, up until now, has only been impressive in controlled spaces.
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Founder/Investor/Author Frank Rotman On Cofounding A Venture Capital Fund, Managing $4.5 Billion In AUM, And Now Building A Startup Studio
Frank Rotman’s journey is one of rare breadth—spanning early artificial intelligence (AI) research, hypergrowth fintech operations, venture investing at scale, and now a return to building from the ground up.
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Andrew Alex On Bootstrapping A $40 Million Revenue-Generating SaaS And Cloud Spend Management Platform, Enabling Companies To Reduce Software Costs By Up To 35%
Instead of relying on institutional capital, he bootstrapped his way to building Spendbase into a $40M+ revenue business, guided by a simple but powerful principle: build products that deliver real value, and customers will sell them for you.
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Michael Mandel On Raising $80 Million To Build A Crowdsourced Commercial Real Estate (CRE) Data Platform To Streamline The Real Estate Industry
Michael Mandel’s entrepreneurial path began inside one of the most relationship-driven and data-fragmented industries in the world: commercial real estate.
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Bilal Baloch On Helping Build A $1 Billion AUM Venture Capital Firm Focused On Investing In Early-Stage Technology Startups Across The MENA Region and Now the World
What does it really take to move from building a company to backing the next generation of founders? For Bilal Baloch, the journey isn’t just a shift in role—it’s a complete rewiring of perspective.
From growing up in immigrant communities in East London to building and exiting a company, and now investing out of Abu Dhabi in some of the most ambitious AI startups globally, Bilal’s story is a masterclass in pattern recognition, discipline, and understanding how the world truly works.
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Serial Founder Fred Voccola On Building A $1.7 Billion Company, Completing 17 Acquisitions, And Now Leveraging AI To Transform The $6 Trillion Trades Industry
From getting rejected for internships to building and exiting multiple companies—and eventually scaling one into a multi-billion-dollar powerhouse—Fred Voccola's journey is about perfecting timing and a deep understanding of the fundamentals of business.
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