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 Sid Upadhyay, Co-Founder and CEO of Wizehire, a small business hiring platform that's raised over $37 Million in funding.

Here are the most interesting points from our conversation:

• Bootstrap to Venture-Backed: Sid discusses Wizehire’s journey from a bootstrapped company to securing $37 million in funding, emphasizing the importance of achieving product-market fit before seeking venture capital.

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Hala Borno, Founder and CEO of Trial Library, an evidence-based platform for improving patient recruitment and diversity in oncology clinical trials, about why a more representative candidate pool is key to the future of better health for everyone. Trial Library partners with study sponsors to recruit candidates from a wide range of backgrounds to make sure that the principles of health equity are built into the process from the bottom up.

We also speak about Hala’s personal experience with her mother’s care choices that led her to a career in medicine, how she balances maintaining a commitment to patients with the responsibilities of being a CEO, what it means to build a public benefit company with empathy as its ‘North star,’  and why diversity in clinical trials depends largely on healthcare providers’ role as the gatekeepers.

Topics Discussed:

• How her mother’s personal challenges with overcoming health barriers led Hala to a career in medicine

Favorite book: 

The Emperor of All Maladies

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Iain Cooper, CEO of SeekOps Inc., an emission monitoring company that has raised $23 Million in funding.

Here are the most interesting points from our conversation:

• Iain’s journey from Scotland, to England, and how he ended up in Austin, Texas as the CEO of SeekOps.

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In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Barr Moses, Co-Founder & CEO of Monte Carlo, a data observability platform that's raised over $230 Million in funding, about why quickly spotting problems in big commercial data can be the difference between a swift resolution or a costly correction later on. By providing data teams with the tools they need to keep up to date with what’s going on with their data, Monte Carlo gives them a headstart in resolving, and sometimes even preventing dangerous errors before they can cause major problems.

We also speak about Barr’s background in the Israeli military, the lessons she learned and brought forward to the world of business, why communication with potential clients was at the heart of the Monte Carlo strategy, how happy Barr is to see the data observability category establishing itself in the marketplace, and why her biggest business inspiration might just be her own Mother.

Topics Discussed:

• Barr’s background in the Israeli military, and the lessons in analytics and dealing with challenges that she brought to the world of business

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Gary Hoberman, CEO and Founder of Unqork, a no-code enterprise application platform that’s raised over $400 Million in funding, about why the future of tech innovation for some of the world’s largest companies is being built without a single line of code. With a range of software solutions combining automation and cutting-edge analytics, Unqork helps their clients divert critical resources back to driving forward momentum instead of maintaining out-of-date solutions.

We also speak about Gary’s impressive career in some of the world’s leading enterprises, how his entrepreneurial family helped shape his unique approach to business, Gary’s vision for innovation in business, and why, as far as he’s concerned, cutting-edge technology really is magic.

Topics Discussed:

• Gary’s career in the world of global enterprise and what it taught him about his own personal approach to business

Favorite book: 

Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with William Sankey, CEO and Head of Product, Co-Founder of Northspyre, a proactive intelligence platform that's raised over $32 Million in funding, about why making the right decisions about complex urban environments means working with massive amounts of data, and how automation can be a game changer for this massive economic sector. Letting their clients leverage cutting-edge technologies to deliver building and construction projects in a more predictable, repeatable and generally easier way, Northspyre is helping build better cities for everyone.

We also spoke about William’s lifelong fascination with the urban environment and why he loves to learn about how cities work, his personal experiences with the real estate industry’s most salient pain points, what it was like coming from an entrepreneurial family and why the real estate sector remains at the tail end of technological innovation.

Topics Discussed:

• William’s lifelong fascination with the urban environment, and why he always wanted to build better cities

Favorite book: 

The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Peter Prizio Jr, CEO of SnapAttack, a threat management platform that's raised $8 Million in funding. SnapAttack is the Enterprise-Grade & MSSP Platform that helps security leaders answer their most pressing question: “Are we protected?” By rolling intel, adversary emulation, detection engineering, threat hunting, and purple teaming into a single, easy-to-use product with a no-code interface, SnapAttack unlocks the potential of your security operations. Prior to SnapAttack, Peter developed complex defense weapons systems and citizen services for Government clients, ultimately finding a home in cybersecurity startups spanning from Third Party Risk and Cyber Threat Intelligence. He is passionate about collaboration and information sharing across organizations, industries, and public sectors as a backbone for proactive security.

We speak about why the scale and sophistication of cybersecurity threats means that constant innovation is an industry essential. By capturing detailed information about cyberattacks and handing it over to the defender, their mission is to help clients hunt for hackers and respond more effectively.

We also speak about Peter’s background as an Electrical Engineer and his fascination with finding out how things work, how SnapAttack spun out from RnD at Booz Allen Hamilton, the challenge of finding the hacker hunters to deal with contemporary security concerns, and why government clients might be hard to crack at first, but the networking rewards make them worth it in the end.

Topics Discussed:

• Peter’s background as an electrical engineer, and his fascination with how things function that eventually led him to the cybersecurity space

Favorite book: 

The Little Red Book of Wisdom

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Stijn Vande Casteele, founder of Sweepatic, an external attack surface management company that’s raised $4.4 million in funding, about why an effective cybersecurity strategy depends on getting the right information to the people who need to make decisions, and how Sweepatic makes that happen in real time. Market leaders in threat discovery, Sweepatic’s name comes from the focus on continuously mapping, analyzing and monitoring all  internet facing assets or ‘sweeping,’ to provide their clients with critical information via a seamless interface.

We also speak about the challenges of getting a startup off the ground in Europe versus some other cybersecurity hubs, Stijn’s experience across an entire industry which inspired him to start Sweepatic, the appeal of cloud-based services for contemporary customers, and why Sweepatic’s approach might have found perfect market fit.

Topics Discussed:

• Stijn’s career in cybersecurity, and the lessons that led him to found Sweepatic

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 Fady Hawatmeh, CEO of Clockwork, an FP&A platform that has raised nearly $3 Million in funding.

Here are the most interesting points from our conversation:

• Personal Pain Point: Fady's background as an outsourced CFO highlighted the need for a more automated, accessible FP&A solution, leading to the genesis of Clockwork.

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In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Patricia Thaine, Co-Founder & CEO of Private AI, a privacy tech startup that's raised over $11 Million in funding, about how a new awareness of privacy concerns and a slew of regulations are driving transformation in the sector, and why Private AI’s comprehensive solution package has found its perfect market fit. Covering everything from privacy regulation compliance, determining the risks associated with different types of data, and even privacy-free training data for chatbot programs, private AI is helping get the most out of big data without exposing people to undue risk.

We also speak about Patricia’s background in research on privacy and language processing, why new regulations are driving a rush towards a more privacy-centric tech sector, the value and risk of companies with hoards of harvested data, and the current state of the privacy space about which Patricia is largely optimistic.

Topics Discussed:

• Patricia’s background in the academic world of privacy and language processing models

Favorite book: 

How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going