Produced by Foundersuite.com, “How I Raised It” goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital.
This episode is with Sachin Dev Duggal, CEO of Engineer.ai a Santa Monica based startup that provides a human-assisted AI platform to build custom software products.
Engineer.ai raised a $29.5 million Series A venture rounds in a deal led by Lakestar Advisors (Germany) Jungle Ventures (Singapore) and Deepcore (Japan).
In this episode, Sachin Dev Duggal talks about raising capital for a startup whose “front end is SaaS and back end is a marketplace,” some of the fundraising false starts, why he believes the funding success formula is made up of “purpose + persistence” and more.
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Expedia’s acquisitions versus the Priceline Group’s “competitive moat.” Rock, paper, scissors. It’s an interesting contest and in the $1.4 trillion global travel market, both companies can be winners. Expedia is trending upward and Priceline is showing strong growth, as well.
While Expedia dominated headlines with its more than $6 billion worth of acquisitions in 2015, the Priceline Group needs to win the narrative back and CEO Darren Huston made his case about his company’s competitive advantages.
“Our capabilities and scale in partner acquisition, customer experience, and efficient demand generation plus our large installed base of accommodations and loyal travelers give the Priceline Group a competitive moat that is deep and wide,” Huston said. [For Darren Huston elaboration on these points, see excerpts from the Priceline Group’s fourth quarter earnings call February 17 at the bottom of this post.]
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Students to have AI as a subject in class IX from the session 2019-20. The move intends to upgrade the multidisciplinary approach in educating learning and to sharpen the new generation. Centre is has presented Artificial Intelligence (AI Engineer) as a subject in class IX from the session 2019-20 in the schools associated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). Focus has likewise propelled a twelve hours Inspire module in which schools can take up with the students of class VIII. The declaration was made by the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’.
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“Sujan Azad Parikh is the Managing Director of the NATVAR PARIKH INDUSTRIES LIMITED. The witness has referred to the Directors Report and balance sheets of the defendant No.1 obtained from ROC by paying fees through online.”
Copy of Form 32 filed with ROC in respect of appointment of Sujan Azad Parikh from 2nd July, 1999. In the written statement, the NATVAR PARIKH INDUSTRIES LIMITED has specifically asserted in Paragraph 5 that the consignee with the knowledge of the plaintiff had taken delivery of the entire container from the delivery agent of the defendant No.4 at Dubai
Sachin Dev Duggal has bootstrapped Engineer.ai since 2012, which was created with the belief that everyone should be able to build their ideas without needing to code and that any idea can be made into a reality without wastage of time, money or resources.
Darren Huston booker in chief (on Wattpad) - Darren Huston was trying to watch a hockey game, half-listening to a headhunter talk about a company he had never heard of before. But as the headhunter went on, the then-45-year-old executive in charge of Microsoft's global consumer and online businesses tuned out the arena noise and began listening to what he thought was an impossible story.