SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Started first business (online industrial directory) in 1999 in South Africa, and is still in operation today. Personally moved to UK in 2001 to have a more politically stable business base. Then moved to USA in 2006, as US based clients began to increase. Over the years we morphed from an industrial directory to a digital marketing agency. In 2014 co-founder and I began discussing how to solve lead tracking and reporting problem with marketing clients. We officially launched WhatConverts in March 2015. We've enjoyed the boot-strapped growth, and as a company it feels like we're still in the early stages of where we're going.

Alogpix is the only place to understand eCommerce market share, pricing, and promotions of your competitors and category in real-time . Powering Fortune 50 CPGs and Marketplaces, Algopix gives you a window into now, not weeks ago with 1P + 3P Coverage so you can adjust to current market conditions, boost sessions and conversions with more relevant merchandising and pricing.

Co founder and CEO of WildJar First startup. Bootstrapped - started in 2016. Born in New Zealand, grew up in Australia and currently living in the Scotland 🐑🐑🐑

I am a serial Entrepreneur (my third Startup got acquired for a 17x return to investors by $SPLK) and I love making companies with a little bit of funding, tons of freedom and small teams. I am an active Angel Investor, organizer of many tech meetups in LA and I still write code (I have a super strong engineering background). I have been a speaker/lecturer to tons of events all over the world about Entrepreneurship and Startups and I love helping founders.

Credo was founded and is run by John Doherty. John has almost a decade of experience in SEO and online marketing. Before starting Credo, he ran marketing/growth for HotPads and Trulia Rentals, part of the Zillow Group family of real estate brands. Before that he was a consultant at Distilled, where he was the most senior consultant and a founding member of the New York City office. During his time there he consulted with everyone from small VC-backed startups (who closed rounds of funding because of his work) to large international hotel chains with multiple brands and brand needs. He lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife Courtney and their very large black labrador Butterbean.

As CEO of Atrium, Chris leads a world-class team in empowering companies to embrace the next generation of tech through the power of AI. Chris brings more than 15 years of sales, professional services and marketing experience across solution areas including CRM, business intelligence, enterprise integration, and custom application development.

Prayag is founder and Executive Chairman of LeadGenius. Before founding LeadGenius in 2011, Prayag worked at Finland's top research institute as an expert in Ubiquitous Interaction and built mobile applications and embedded systems in Delhi's startup scene. He is an author of several book chapters and papers on Human Computer Interaction, Computer Networks and Network Security. He has a M.S. in Information Science from U.C. Berkeley and a B.S. degree from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology India. Connect via twitter @prayagn. He describes himself as, "a standup guy who loves history, poetry, startups and Scotch."

Eric is a Central Oregon native, Cal Poly graduate and startup founder with a passion for entrepreneurship. Whether it be building a tech company from the ground up, investing in real estate or flipping cars on craigslist, a desire to construct his own success has inspired his actions.

Lesley Eccles is the Founder and CEO of Relish, the first-ever relationship training app making it easier to build happy, healthy, more connected relationships. She was previously co-founder and former head of marketing at FanDuel, the billion dollar fantasy sports company. Lesley also served on FanDuel's board of directors.

Jag Singh, Vid.camera founder and CEO

Web accessibility testing has a problem: testing after the fact. Tenon seeks to solve that. Tenon is a one of a kind accessibility testing tool in that it is aimed at offering unprecedented flexibility in tooling for designers developers testers and content authors. Tenon achieves these goals via its API which can be seamlessly integrated into your existing toolset. It doesn't matter what IDE you use, what CMS you use, what automated build and deploy tool you use, or what you use for unit testing, acceptance testing, or issue tracking, Tenon can be added to these workflows. This ability to test early and often allows you to catch and fix accessibility issues before they happen, not after, and allows you to release accessible code from the beginning.

Ray joined RedSeal as CEO in February 2014. Prior to RedSeal he was a general partner at Venrock, one of RedSeal's founding investors. At Venrock he invested in 53 companies including over a dozen in cybersecurity including Vontu, PGP, P-Cube, Imperva, Cloudflare, CTERA, and Shape Security. He is on the board of Check Point Software Technology, Ltd. an original Venrock investment, and Team8, both Tel Aviv–based companies.

Entrepreneur delivering success to B2B tech buyers and vendors via G2.com marketplace...and supporting ThreeKit in building the world's most amazing 3D visual selling platform. Previously built cloud CPQ software pioneers BigMachines (acquired by Oracle) and SteelBrick (acquired by Salesforce). Following the conscious path to reach the PEAK in my work, personal, and family life.

Jessica Rovello is the CEO and co-founder of Arkadium, which provides interactive content to the world's most well-known brands and publishers, including CNN, Comcast, Microsoft, The Washington Post and USA Today. Jessica is the winner of the American Business Award for Executive of the Year, the Stevie Award for Entrepreneur of Year, was named one of SmartCEO's Future 50 and is a Crain's New York "40 Under 40" winner.

David Hollander is the founder of Order Desk, an app that helps merchants save time on their ecommerce order management. He started Order Desk as a side-project six years ago, and it's now grown into a bootstrapped company employing six people and grossing $60K/month.

Ankesh, was born in India, educated in London, based in Silicon Valley. ATSystems, 0-$22m in 4 years. Sold to TMP/Monster. Personic, 0- $25m in 4 years. Raised $50m, Personic sold to Kronos. Sold patents to Google for "Sharing as a Page Ranking Mechanism," prior to Facebook's "Like button"

"I've had the privilege of experiencing the best of both worlds, 5 startups and 3 MNCs in the last 20 years in the enterprise software space solving mission critical business problems. After 12 years in San Francisco and working with some of the brightest entrepreneurs, engineers, VCs, and tech leaders, I transitioned what a 2 year contract to Asia has now turned into 10 years, having mostly based in Singapore and Japan. The excitement continues, especially now that I'm leading my own startup in Singapore and expanding rapidly across geographies. Currently, we are experiencing pent up demand for consumer engagement and loyalty solutions from SMEs to large enterprises, trying to meet their customers' rising digital expectations and also to solve their direct to consumer data play. Perx Technologies is addressing the B2B2C space where the business stakeholders are more pressured to deliver revenue than ever before. I've worked with traditional IT leaders and stakeholders for many years and now we see a trend where business stakeholders are driving more tech spend with new SaaS and agile plug n play data platforms to help transform revenue models to differentiate their journeys to become lifestyle and content rich companies, improve customer experience and real time engagements, measure marketing spend with real ROI, and can rapidly go-live with zero to little integration. Perx is regarded as Asia's first fully integrated AI enabled customer engagement & loyalty SaaS platform. Our configurable dashboard unifies real time customer data and interaction and empowers marketers to manage loyalty, campaigns and rewards in a much more dynamic and automated manner, producing rich analytics and real time insights on campaign performance. By gamifying the experience for end users and powered by the personalization engine that delivers smart products and offers to smart customers, businesses can see an immediate increase on conversion and retention rates. We have re-defined what next generation of loyalty means in the digital economy!

I'm passionate about data, design and pedagogy. I started Toucan 5 years ago, Previously I cofounded tldr.io. I'm 32 years old and father of three.

Matthew Hager began writing code at the age of 8. At 20 he started Poetic, one of Houston's leading technology agencies. Now, as CEO of Clutch, he is working towards his lifelong passion of making building software faster and easier than ever before. When he's offline, he spends time with his wife of 11 years, 4 kids, 17 chickens and 2 dogs.

George Arison is the co-founder of Shift, an online marketplace disrupting the used car industry. An immigrant from Georgia and lifelong entrepreneur, he also co-founded the first on-demand mobile transportation booking technology Taxi Magic (now known as Curb), as well as working for Google and BCG.

TOOTRiS is service provider that helps working parents' access and secure affordable, quality Child Care in real-time. TOOTRiS is available online or by mobile app and provides search by location, schedule, budget and specific program distinctions, along with virtual tour capabilities, enrollment and pay-as-you-go payment processing.

Rafferty Pendery is an International Public Speaker and Tech Entrepreneur who owns several successful companies in the software and marketing space serving a wide range of businesses - from small businesses to Fortune 500's.

Since 2009, Paris has founded and run Hop Online, which has pivoted in recent years to focus entirely on SaaS growth marketing. Services include SEO, content marketing, paid search, paid social, CRO, data analytics, and creative. From 2014-16, Paris was Country Manager for Google in Bulgaria. Today, Hop Online serves several high growth SaaS companies that are pursuing exponential scale ahead of or in response to investor financing.

Kevin Dawidowicz is the President and co-founder of CoachMePlus, built around a simple idea, helping coaches and athletes work together to achieve their fitness-related goals. We serve a range of fitness-minded professionals from personal trainers and gym owners to professional sports coaches and military human performance specialists.

The former head of IBM Canada's data mining and data warehousing practices, Gary is passionate about AI and its ability to transform how retailers grow their businesses and establish an edge in an increasingly challenging and competitive environment. Under Gary's leadership, Daisy has established a track record of delivering verifiable financial outcomes for a rapidly growing list of global clients. Gary holds a B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Highly influential, passionate executive Director and Co-Investor for high growing SaaS and Private Equity / Private Debt ecosystem. Invested in Fluid Fintec and SalesProcess.

I strongly believe that technology should work towards improving human relationships instead of replacing them. The ability to bring communities together, and benefit all stakeholders is what drives us. I've been personally impacted by the lack of scholarships and with Almabase now, we're helping institutions make their education more accessible.

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Ex Samsung R&D Developer and Team Manager. Almost Googler but reject the offer in the very last moment. Start my first start-up in 2012, still operating. From 2018 working on martech solution - Trustisto.

As co-founder and CEO of TeamSnap, the household name in integrated sports management, Dave wears many hats – from being the boss to sweeping the floors, and everything in between. Since forming the company he has managed three successful investment rounds, secured strategic partnerships and overseen impressive growth. Nearly 20 million administrators, coaches, players and parents now rely on TeamSnap to manage their sports lives. He continues to focus on both day-to-day and long-term initiatives.

Founded Feedsauce in 2018 after running an agency to $600k ARR with 9 person team and then noticing that all our clients were always interested in content more than anything. We accidentally had built a 'speedy system' for creating product photos in our agency and used this model to pivot to Feedsauce and provide custom product photos for brands in 72 hours. Now we're building a marketplace to open the platform to all creators around the world.

Daniel is the co-founder of img.ly, where he strives to build platforms to make design more accessible for everyone. After graduating with a PhDs in electrical engineering in 2015, he held a few interim CTO positions in the local startup community. In 2017 he co-founded img.ly with Eray Basar.

Kevin Zicherman helps digital agencies and MSPs innovate to increase profitability by reselling guest WiFi marketing solutions. Kevin is the CEO of MyWiFi Networks, the leading white-label WiFi platform with social data capture, visitor metrics and marketing automation.

Scot is a 4-time entrepreneur based out of the Research Triangle Park region. Before Spiffy, he started ChannelAdvisor in 2001 and took it public in 2013. Now he's exploring the intersection of digital services and car care.

Started in my first company at 22. Serial Entrepreneur with a passion for people and businesses. Started working in Occupational Health and Safety in 2012 and decided I needed to go back to school to learn more about business. Started Safety Evolution in 2016, graduated my MBA in 2017.

Life long learner who is looking to add value to every relationship I build. Co-founded fullcast.io with Bala in 2017 to transform how Go to market Operations are done based on prior experience scaling ops at Salesforce and Microsoft.

I started MySwimPro when I was 23, and since then it has grown to over 1 Million downloads, named App of the Year by Apple and the business has grown to 7-figures in revenue. We are a 100% remote company distributed across 10 time zones!

Kyle York is co-founder, CEO and managing partner at York IE where he sets the company's vision of building a hybrid strategic advisory, investment and operational growth firm. Kyle works closely with entrepreneurs and investors to help them realize their shared ambition to build good companies, create new jobs, grow generational wealth and impact the world. Investing in over 75 startups over the past decade, Kyle is also a co-founder and board member for 3rd generation family business, YORK Athletics MFG., an ecommerce footwear brand in Boston, and is a board member for Canvs, Assent Compliance, CloudApp and Forcivity.

I am a full stack developer with a passion for entrepreneurship. I am a father of 3 little boys ages 6, 4, and 4 and married to my lovely wife Yvette. When not working I love reading about various topics, but have a passion for everything Sci-fi/Fantasy.

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Johnathan Grzybowski, is the co-founder of Penji. A platform that gives you on-demand access to the top two percent of designers in the world. You can submit as many projects as you want, get your completed designs back in under 48 hours and only pay a flat monthly rate. His personal mission is to empower the next generation of entrepreneurs to challenge simple minded patterns that help elevate, execute, and produce more revenue for their business.

In 2018 I joined forces with Professor Ole Winther from DTU and founded raffle.ai. raffle deploys intelligent search tools for Customer Service, that gives instant, correct answers to your customers and employees, while picking up great insights on customer needs and employee satisfaction. raffle reduces calls, live chats and emails by 24% and unlocks a constant re-learning circle. At the same time employees save 80% of their internal search time and get up to speed with new knowledge quickly. raffle.ai has raised €3,5 mill within the first 24 months (by August 1, 2020) and aims for a Series A round late 2021.

Serial SaaS Entrepreneur with experience in helping small businesses.

Ted is a co-founder and CEO of Cylynt, a cyber-security firm that provides SaaS based anti-piracy, license compliance and software monetization technology for the world's leading software companies. Prior to Cylynt, Ted was a co-founder of the EDA company AWR Corporation, which was acquired by National Instruments in 2011. AWR, a leading high-frequency analog design company, has played an important role in the design of semiconductors used in wireless applications.