DealMakers: Entrepreneur | Startups | Venture Capital
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Felix Van de Maele is the founder and CEO of Collibra which delivers the only end to end data intelligence platform to accelerate digital business transformation. The company has raised over $300 million from top tier investors such as Index Ventures, Battery Ventures, ICONIQ Capital, Dawn Capital, CapitalG, Newion, Durable Capital Partners, and Brustart to name a few.
In this episode you will learn:
How investor demands change between funding rounds
Why investors are seldom in a rush
Why they said no to selling their company
The Amazonification of data
The differences for founders in Europe versus NYC, and how to be prepared to scale into the US
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For a winning deck, take a look at the pitch deck template created by Silicon Valley legend, Peter Thiel (see it here) that I recently covered. Thiel was the first angel investor in Facebook with a $500K check that turned into more than $1 billion in cash.
Moreover, I also provided a commentary on a pitch deck from an Uber competitor that has raised over $400 million (see it here).
Remember to unlock for free the pitch deck template that is being used by founders around the world to raise millions below.
About Felix Van de Maele:
As Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, Felix Van de Maele has led Collibra from idea to more than nine years of record growth and industry leadership.
Collibra is the data governance solution of choice for global Fortune 500 companies spanning industries such as financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and more. Under Felix Van de Maele leadership, Collibra has secured a $50M Series C, and most recently $58M Series D round led by premier VC firms including ICONIQ Capital and Battery Ventures, bringing the total funding for Collibra to over $133 million.
Prior to co-founding Collibra, Felix Van de Maele served as a researcher at the Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory (STARLab) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, where Felix Van de Maele focused on ontology-focused crawlers for the semantic web and semantic data integration.
Felix Van de Maele holds a Master’s in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a master in General Management from the Vlerick Business School. In 2017, Felix Van de Maele was named by DataNews as the ICT personality of the year.
Connect with Felix Van de Maele:
* Linkedin
* Crunchbase
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In this episode you will learn:
How investor demands change between funding rounds
Why investors are seldom in a rush
Why they said no to selling their company
The Amazonification of data
The differences for founders in Europe versus NYC, and how to be prepared to scale into the US
SUBSCRIBE ON:
For a winning deck, take a look at the pitch deck template created by Silicon Valley legend, Peter Thiel (see it here) that I recently covered. Thiel was the first angel investor in Facebook with a $500K check that turned into more than $1 billion in cash.
Moreover, I also provided a commentary on a pitch deck from an Uber competitor that has raised over $400 million (see it here).
Remember to unlock for free the pitch deck template that is being used by founders around the world to raise millions below.
About Felix Van de Maele:
As Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, Felix Van de Maele has led Collibra from idea to more than nine years of record growth and industry leadership.
Collibra is the data governance solution of choice for global Fortune 500 companies spanning industries such as financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and more. Under Felix Van de Maele leadership, Collibra has secured a $50M Series C, and most recently $58M Series D round led by premier VC firms including ICONIQ Capital and Battery Ventures, bringing the total funding for Collibra to over $133 million.
Prior to co-founding Collibra, Felix Van de Maele served as a researcher at the Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory (STARLab) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, where Felix Van de Maele focused on ontology-focused crawlers for the semantic web and semantic data integration.
Felix Van de Maele holds a Master’s in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a master in General Management from the Vlerick Business School. In 2017, Felix Van de Maele was named by DataNews as the ICT personality of the year.
Connect with Felix Van de Maele:
* Crunchbase
*
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