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DealMakers

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 weekly interviews with entrepreneurs that have been very successful at raising capital or getting their company acquired. You can learn more at https://alejandrocremades.com/

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June 5 · 31 min
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.
June 3 · 39 min
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.
May 6 · 25 min
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.
May 5 · 26 min
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.
May 1 · 26 min
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.
April 30 · 35 min
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.
April 29 · 36 min
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.
April 28 · 26 min
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.
April 25 · 27 min
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.
April 24 · 39 min
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.
April 14 · 38 min
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.
April 11 · 34 min
Ritik Malhotra On Selling Companies To Box And Brex And Now Raising $105 Million To Build A Tech-Driven Platform Providing End-To-End Assistance To Solo Financial Advisors
What does it really take to build not just one—but multiple successful startups? For Ritik Malhotra, the answer isn’t just about intelligence, timing, or even luck; it’s about process, resilience, and an obsession with building.
April 8 · 25 min
Sankalp Arora On Raising $74 Million To Bring Real-Time Intelligence to Warehouses With AI-Powered Vision
AI and robotics are having a moment. But very few founders are actually building at the intersection of deep tech, real-world deployment, and scalable business models. Gather AI CEO & co-founder Sankalp Arora, PhD, is one of them.
April 7 · 27 min
Thomas Tyler On Raising A $150 Million Private Credit Facility Using His Skills In Finance To Empower Music Creators To Monetize Their Creations Effectively
Most founders build companies from one world they know well. Thomas Tyler built his from two. On one side was music: a childhood followed by a full-time career as a musician. On the other was finance.
April 5 · 29 min
Dylan Rudney On Raising $247 Million To Build a Leading LatAm Renewable Energy Company Focused on Full Lifecycle Solar + BESS (Battery Storage) Projects
What does it take to go from $100K in startup capital to $100M in annual revenue—and finance and execute $750M worth of projects along the way? For Dylan Rudney, founder of Verano Energy, it isn’t just about vision or timing; it’s execution and adaptability.
April 4 · 31 min
Dan Wertman On Building An AI-Powered Platform That Processed $1 Trillion In Transaction Volume And Was Later Acquired By Thomson Reuters
Dan Wertman retraces his path through building, scaling, and raising financing for his company, Noetica, meeting his cofounders, and learning how to differentiate in the crazy world of AI.
March 17 · 27 min
Private Equity Investor-Turned-Founder Bill Lenihan On Raising $25 Million To Solve Energy Access For 3 Billion People
Bill Lenihan’s entrepreneurial path didn’t start as an engineer, product builder, or early startup operator. Instead, his career began in the structured world of finance—investment banking and private equity—before evolving into technology operations and eventually entrepreneurship.
March 15 · 26 min
John Howard On Raising $52 Million to Create an “Intentional Commerce” Ecosystem
While many startup founders begin as engineers, product builders, or early-stage operators, John Howard took a very different path. His entrepreneurial journey began in unexpected places—the structured, high-stakes world of investment banking and private equity.
March 14 · 27 min
Andrew Antos On Raising Over $90 Million To Automate Document-Intensive Workflows, Reduce Manual Work, And Increase Efficiency
For Andrew Antos, the path to building a successful AI company began in an unlikely place: a family of scientists in the post-communist Czech Republic, followed by a brief career in law, and eventually a leap into the startup ecosystem at Harvard and MIT.
March 13 · 28 min
Constantin Schroder On Raising $50 Million To Build An AI-Native Property Management Company That Optimizes Short-Term And Vacation Rentals To Maximize Revenue For Owners
Constantin Schröder’s entrepreneurial journey started long before he launched his first company. The mindset—discipline, resilience, and the ability to learn from failure—developed through experiences that seemed unrelated at the time.

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