DealMakers
Welcome to the DealMakers show, hosted by Alejandro Cremades. Alejandro is a serial entrepreneur, best-selling author, and cofounder at Panthera Advisors (M&A and fundraising advisory). On this podcast you will find interviews with entrepreneurs that have been very successful at raising capital or g...
Recent Episodes
June 5, 2026
David Dorfman On Building And Selling A Company In An Eight-Figure Exit And Now Tackling A $72 Billion Problem Affecting Millions Of Americans – Unclaimed Funds in State Databases
David Dorfman’s path to entrepreneurship often begins with a simple observation: something is broken, inefficient, or unnecessarily difficult. His first company is YAPI, a dental software platform and the second is Blue Navy Recovery.
June 2, 2026
Alex Haro On Raising Over $100 Million To Enable Standard Bluetooth Devices To Communicate Directly With Satellites From Anywhere On Earth
Most founders dream of building a company that changes an industry—Alex Haro built one that changed how families stay connected. Co-founder of Life360, he is currently building Hubble Network and has raised over $100M for the company.
May 6, 2026
Simon Bushell On Raising $80 Million To Turn Industrial Assets, Batteries, And Renewables Into Grid-Stabilizing Energy Resources
When Simon Bushell reflects on his journey, it doesn’t start in a boardroom or a lab—it starts outdoors. That early exposure to nature quietly shaped a worldview and a deep conviction that climate change is the most important problem humanity needs to solve.
May 5, 2026
Yoav Regev On Raising Over $100 Million To Build A Cloud-Native Data Security Platform (DSP/DSPM) To Help Organizations Discover, Classify, and Secure Sensitive Data In The AI Era
Yoav Regev’s entrepreneurial path began with 25 years in the military and culminated in the founding of a category-defining cybersecurity company, Sentra. Today, he stands at the crux of resilience, people, and an obsession with solving one of the most basic problems in technology: securing data.
May 1, 2026
Isaiah Granet On Raising Over $56 Million To Build A Specialized Platform For Creating, Deploying, And Scaling AI-Powered Voice Agents Similar To Humans On Phone Calls
From sleeping on a closet floor in San Francisco to betting his company on a $1M GPU commitment with only $400K in the bank, Isaiah’s journey traces the path of hiring non-traditional talent, adapting to unfavorable capital markets, and operating with urgency when the odds are stacked against you.
April 30, 2026
Ali Agha On Raising $400 Million To Build AI-Driven Brains That Enable Robots To Operate Autonomously In Complex, Dynamic Real-World Environments Without GPS
Ali Agha is among the rare founders who have bridged the gap between the fascinating world of theoretical robotics and reliable, real-world applications. He has overcome the challenges in the promising field of robotics, which, up until now, has only been impressive in controlled spaces.