BUILDERS

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 Mousa Yassin, CEO & Founder of Pixaera, an immersive learning platform that has raised $5.7 million in funding.

Here are the most interesting points from the conversation:

• Pixaera's Mission: Pixaera bridges the gap between gaming and enterprise learning, leveraging high-fidelity 3D gamified experiences to revolutionize traditional training methods.

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Liam Randall, CEO and Founder of Cosmonic, a company that has raised $8.5 Million in funding.

Topics Discussed:

• Liam’s background as a hustler immigrants’ child

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

Favorite book: 

Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders

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

Favorite book: 

The Little Prince

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

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 customers have the time and resources available to focus on what matters most - building and growing their businesses.

We also speak about Arik’s CEO superpowers of staying hungry and getting deep into the details, advice for early founders to focus on building a brand and boosting awareness, Rapyd’s marketing strategies, and creating a new category with ‘fintech as a service.’

Topics Discussed:

• Lessons learned from the Israeli military 

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, coordinate tasks and introduce custom tools across a whole range of third-party platforms, Airplane transforms basic scripts into production grade apps.

We speak to the CEO and Co-Founder about his background as a software engineer and the companies he founded before Airplane, the real world experience that inspired him to focus on internal developer tools, staying competitive in a crowded marketplace, and why Airplane decided against going ‘no-code.’

Topics Discussed:

• Ravi’s background in software engineering and analytics, and his record of founding tech-centered companies

Favorite book: 

High Output Management

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

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 companies keep the promises they make to their clients, creating an entirely new business application that makes it easy to gather and re-use evidence, set reminders to complete compliance tasks, and automate tedious manual tasks, all with a level of transparency previously unheard of.

We also speak about Craig’s background in the tech Industry for 31 years, his time working for microsoft and what it taught him about trust in the sector, bridging the gap between security and compliance, and Hyperproof’s vision for the future of enhancing trust and transparency across the board.

Topics Discussed:

• Craig’s decades-long career in the tech space, from some of the industry’s biggest names to experiences in the startup economy

Favorite book: 

The Scarlet Letter

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 available to all who need it, Cinchy gives business teams the power to execute and oversee their own desired outcomes and implement real change.

We also speak about Dan’s background between technology and big finance, what it was like transitioning from programming to management, creating a brand new category for his business, and Cinchy’s aim to make data integration all but obsolete.

Topics Discussed:

• Dan’s background in technology and big finance, transitioning from a programmer to manager, and the insights it gave him into the complexities of big enterprise.

Favorite book: 

Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets