Start-Up Sessions

Start-Up Sessions

Learn from the founders and leaders of some of today’s most successful born-digital businesses, as AlixPartners invites them to share their successes, challenges, and personal experiences from life in the world of tech businesses, all of which were – at one point in their life – start-ups.

Episodes

March 28, 2024 35 mins

What drives founders and leaders to begin their start-up journey? How can they effectively handle the different stages of growth and “let go of their baby”? And how do the leadership traits at the top contribute to – or constrict – an organisation’s development? To close out our first season, we focus on the area of business leadership in the start-up environment with host Thomas Morineaux, Ted Bililies, Ph.D...

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Crowdo is a market-leading business banking platform for SMEs in emerging Asia. Nicola Castelnuovo, Co-Founder and Group CCO, joins AlixPartners’ Thomas Morineaux and Paul Fanning to discuss the challenges in scaling a start-up, the key success factors for his business to date, and his thoughts on what may be on the horizon to disrupt the world of fintech.

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Fitinsur is Latin America’s first “Insurtech as a Service” start-up. Denise Oliveira, Founder and CEO, joins AlixPartners’ Thomas Morineaux and Jonathan Hughes to discuss her disrupted journey into the world of start-ups, beset by the onset of the pandemic, yet emerging to secure Series A funding and set the business on the path to scale for the future.

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IDnow is a market-leading European player in identity proofing services, combining automated, human-assisted and video-assisted identity verification services. Bertrand Bouteloup, Chief Commercial Officer, joins AlixPartners’ Thomas Morineaux and Gerrit Buschhorn to discuss how the company is differentiating itself from the competition in the rapidly-changing environment of digital identities, from regulatory, customer, and cyber s...

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International e-commerce platform Global-e has come a long way in just 10 years. Now valued at $5bn after a successful IPO in 2021, the business continues to scale as it harnesses the opportunities presented by the growing world of cross-border online payments and consumers’ growing appetite for online retail. Rony Raphaely, VP of Revenue Operations, joins AlixPartners’ Thomas Morineaux and Phil Lewis to discuss her personal experi...

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The Genasys success story has gone from strength to strength, with the insuretech company recently celebrating its 25th anniversary, all the while maintaining a laser focus on the software and the service it delivers to its clients. André Symes, Group CEO, joins AlixPartners’ Thomas Morineaux and Clive de Silva to discuss the key success factors in helping the business reach this milestone, how they continue to stand apart from the...

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