Startup Success How We Raised $100M in Funding

What this short covers

Lisa Falzone, a repeat tech founder, discusses her entrepreneurial journey, including the discipline learned from competitive swimming, the process of finding product-market fit with Revel Systems, and the burnout she experienced despite scaling her company to a $500M valuation.

Transcript

And at what point was it the validation that it was going to be really big? You know, when when did you get that insight? >> Uh well, I mean it was we just kept like we were not so we you know we raised multiple ra uh rounds of funding. Um and and you know and then in 2014 we raised about 100 million from a private equity firm and a couple other investors. Um so yeah so I would say that was that was a mark of final success which is really remarkable.

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