BUILDERS

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Philippe Humeau, CEO of CrowdSec, a cyber security startup building a neighborhood watch for the internet era, leveraging collaboration and mutual benefit to optimize protection against contemporary online threats. By identifying aggressive IP addresses and bad actors in real time, and sharing that information with users, the bulk of your security legwork can be taken care of before the threat ever reaches your servers. It's this powerful security infrastructure which has helped CrowdCec secure 110,000 users in just two years, and be well on the way to their first million.

Topics Discussed:

• How cracking computer games at school led Philippe to a career in cybersecurity

Favorite book: 

Thinking, Fast and Slow

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 Pascal Weinberger, CEO & Founder of Bardeen, a no-code workflow automation platform that has raised over $18 Million in funding.

Here are the most interesting points from the conversation:

• Origin of Bardeen: Pascal and his co-founder Artem were frustrated by the time spent copy-pasting data between tabs and set out to solve this with Bardeen, aiming to automate tedious workflows.

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Jaclyn Chen, CEO of Benepass, about how her journey towards becoming a 'giver' led her to establish an exciting new Employee Benefits Platform, empowering people with the choices they need to make real wellbeing a reality. A simple, intuitive tool with no gimmicks or hidden costs, Benepass helps companies reimagine how they take care of their people, providing a flexible and accountable way for people to get the benefits which make the most difference in their lives. Whether your well-being comes from hitting the gym, joining a meditation class or just having someone to take care of your chores while you work, Benepass offers a one-stop solution with tailor-made choices, without any additional administrative burden on the company.

Topics Discussed:

• The power of 'giving' in the marketplace of ideas, and how prioritizing consumer needs helped drive the birth of Benepass

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 Romaric Philogène, CEO & Founder of Qovery, a developer tool that's raised $4 Million in seed funding.

Here are the most interesting points from our conversation:

• Vision for Qovery: Romaric explains how Qovery helps developers deploy applications in the cloud quickly, enhancing productivity and efficiency.

In today’s episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Krish Ramineni, CEO of Fireflies.ai, an AI meeting assistant promising to revolutionize the value of videoconferencing by unlocking actionable insights from our meetings. Harnessing a unique combination of machine learning, transcription technology and analytics, Fireflies.ai is on a mission to make our meetings better or reduce the need for them altogether, providing all of us with access to the most important insights from those key strategic discussions. Already active in more than 70% of meetings held by fortune 500 companies, if you haven't heard of Fireflies.ai yet, it's only a matter of time.

Topics Discussed:

• Why traditional meetings have been letting us down, wasting time and costing billions of dollars in man hours every year

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In today’s episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Ryan Sevey, CEO of Mantium, about his journey from one man show to becoming the head of a major machine learning platform. In the era of AI, Mantium's unique perspective regarding machine learning is that it's not going to replace humans in terms of sales and communication, but will help us achieve more by taking care of the small things while focusing on the very human tasks that really make a company function.  

Topics Discussed:

• How Ryan's love for learning started his career, and what he's learned along the way

In today’s episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Dimitry Gershenson, CEO and Founder of Enduring Planet, about his journey from a globe-trotting career to establishing a new model of impact investing, providing Founder-friendly, accessible finance to climate entrepreneurs working towards a more livable planet. Each year we collectively fall short of more than 4.5 trillion dollars in the climate financing needed, and Enduring Planet is determined to make a dent in that total with an investment model which aligns business acumen with clear and robust ethical principles.

Topics Discussed:

• The global climate financing landscape, and why Enduring Planet was founded with a mission so make a dent in our environmental debt

In today’s episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Gil Feig, CTO of Merge, about how he started developing a unified API platform to help integrate competing software providers in a real-world business vertical. Forging ahead in a new market space is never easy, but Merge has found an irreplaceable role in the tech operations of many businesses by being proactive, pro-customer, and always putting value before everything. 

Topics Discussed:

• Why the best start for any start up is to build on experience, and ensure value is built in from the ground up

In today’s episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Sam Naficy, CEO of Prodoscore about his journey with the company he built, Prodoscore, and why productivity management is the next frontier in the ongoing expansion of the corporate tech stack. From humble beginnings arriving in the US, Sam has launched a number of startups over the years, and is now convinced that Prodoscore is about to become one of his greatest success stories. By aggregating data from across a whole range of ubiquitous work platforms, Prodoscore provides valuable insights into individual productivity, teamwork and potential longer-term success. 

Topics Discussed:

• The rhythm of corporate tech platform adoption why it's hard to get your foot in the door

In today’s episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Sanjay Goel, CEO of NachoNacho about his journey in the startup space, from banking and computer science to setting up his own company, NachoNacho, the world's first integrated marketplace for SaaS solutions set to revolutionize how businesses deal with their software needs. The SaaS transition might have happened 15 years ago, but the challenges of developing a viable marketplace have left most businesses trawling google to find what they need. By facilitating a more managed buyer's journey and giving customers granular control over their subscriptions, NachoNacho is set to become the center of the SaaS market in the coming years.

Topics Discussed:

• How Sanjay Goel's exciting life experience translates into great business acumen