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Felix Van de Maele On Building A $2.3 Billion Business By Turning Your Data Into Valuable Information

August 30, 2020
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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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