Stories from Successful AI Leaders & Founders
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Case Study #21: Creating a $500K/Year Business by Fixing Boring Sales Emails with AI
Meet St John Dalgleish, co-founder of Perlon AI, a London-based startup specializing in AI-driven outbound prospecting. With a background leading sales teams in applied NLP, Dalgleish has developed a SaaS product claiming to generate 5x more replies than standard templates. He shares insights on their funding round, using their own AI tool for customer acquisition, and the evolving AI landscape in business.
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Case Study #20: How Stephen Klein's AI 'Digital Socrates' Boosts Creativity in Data-Driven Businesses
In our latest feature, we look into the world of AI through the lens of Stephen Klein, an entrepreneur and AI expert with a diverse background in academia and business. He tells about his latest venture Curiouser.AI, and gives practical advice for leaders navigating the AI landscape. Klein's insights span from his accidental path to entrepreneurship to championing creativity over data in AI development. He distinguishes between narrow AI and AGI, offers strategies for AI integration in business, and emphasizes the importance of AI education for personal and professional growth.
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Case Study #19: Markaz's $2.4M Bet - Turning Social Media Users into E-commerce Entrepreneurs
Markaz Technologies co-founder Umair Aslam explains how their platform turns social media users into e-commerce entrepreneurs without upfront costs, details their rapid expansion across Pakistan, and shares why removing financial barriers to online selling is aimed at transforming the country's digital economy.
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Case Study #18: API Auth in Minutes, Not Weeks: Oneloop's Story
Oneloop co-founder Saurabh Jain details their mission to slash API authentication setup from weeks to minutes, shares their approach to juggling product refinement and customer acquisition, and explains why eliminating this developer bottleneck is a game-changer for startups in 2024.
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Case Study #17: How Lleverage's €2M Funding Equips Non-AI Coders to Build AI Features
Serial entrepreneur Lennard Kooy reveals his strategy for empowering mid-sized companies with AI capabilities, shares insights on building AI features without specialists, and explains why many businesses are still AI-hesitant in 2024.
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Case Study #16: Qualifying Leads with AI at Lightning Speed: Paul Kleen's Pitchit.ai Raises $2.5M
Paul Kleen, founder of Pitchit recently sat down with us to discuss his journey in building an AI-powered sales assistant platform. From his early days in tech to raising $2.5 million in seed funding, Paul shared insights on product development, market fit, and the future of AI in sales and marketing.
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Case Study #15: See How DSW Helps Enterprises Reduce Cost of Ownership by 30% and Halves AI Deployment Times
Since 2019, Data Science Wizards has been turning AI experiments into real business value for enterprises. Their UnifyAI platform cuts costs by 30% and halves deployment times, turning AI experiments into business value. Operating from Mumbai and Dublin, they're making AI work for businesses, not the other way around.
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Case Study #14: Code, Community, and AI: The NovaSquare Story of Building AI Companions for Twitch Streamers
Mathieu and Nicolas didn't set out to be Twitch's AI whisperers. But after years of streaming and coding, they couldn't ignore the untapped potential in creator-audience interactions. Now, their startup NovaSquare is turning an off-hand joke into a digital companion that's spicing up Twitch chats – one witty response at a time.
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Case Study #13: "How We've Protected $1.2 Billion from Smart Contract Hacks"
Abhishek Singh didn't set out to be a Web3 watchdog. But after 15 years in India's dot-com and media industry, he couldn't ignore the $16 billion elephant in the room: smart contract hacks. Now, his Bengaluru-based startup SecureDApp is on a mission to make blockchain security less of a headache – and a lot more accessible.
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Case Study #12: From 0 to 1M Users: Bootstrapping TensorPix into a Thriving AI Startup
We at TensorPix think this is a billion-dollar startup because we're ultimately trying to solve the low-quality media problem. Imagine if poor-quality photos and videos simply didn't exist anymore. Every phone or camera could shoot in DSLR at a quality level. That's what we are aiming for.
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Case Study #11: From Frustration to Innovation: Latitude's 30-Day Sprint to MVP + VC Funding
When Gerard Clos and his team at Factorial found themselves struggling with data reporting, they didn't just grumble—they got creative. Amid Barcelona's thriving tech scene, Clos saw an opportunity to simplify the complex world of data analysis. That spark of frustration ignited Latitude, a startup aiming to make data accessible to all, not just the SQL savvy.
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Case Study #10: The Rise of Digital Co-Workers: CREATUS.AI's Vision for the Future of Work
Marko Vidrih recognized AI technology's growing complexity and inaccessibility for businesses struggling to keep up. Determined to change this, he founded CREATUS.AI, a platform designed to make AI accessible and indispensable. Think of it as a digital assistant that sees, hears, types, clicks, and speaks—an AI-native workspace crafted to boost productivity for small businesses, remote workers, and content creators.
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Case Study #9: How Maitham Bootstrapped PowerDMARC to the Top Email Security Product with Thousands of Happy Customers
Maitham Al Lawati saw the rise of phishing attacks and email spoofing during the COVID-19 pandemic and knew something had to be done. Frustrated by the increasing threat to digital communications, he founded PowerDMARC to provide robust domain security for businesses of all sizes, ensuring that no organization has to face these challenges alone.
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Case Study #8: How Two Friends' Code Struggle Solution Became a Thriving AI Business
Afif and Darrell just wanted a quicker way to handle code reviews at work. But endless hours spent manually checking code left these tech enthusiasts frustrated and drained. That's when it hit them during a routine gaming session—what if AI could automate the entire code review process?
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Case Study #7: How Jeremy Toeman Built a Tool That Translates Spoken Words Into Videos
Jeremy Toeman just wanted to make a simple video trailer for his podcast. But weeks of struggling with complex editing software left the first-time video creator frustrated and baffled. That's when inspiration struck - what if AI could automate the entire video creation process?
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Case Study #6: How Elai.io Became the Go-To AI Video Generator Platform in Just 2 Years
An inside look at how Vitalii and his team turned their idea of using AI to generate professional videos from just a script into the reality of Elai.io. This story offers a transparent view into the challenges, decisions, and efforts that went into building their AI video creation platform from the ground up.
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Case Study #5: From Spreadsheets to AI: How mrgn's Mission to Empower Small Businesses Led to 15x Growth in Closed Beta
See how Yoni Rubin turned his spreadsheet nightmare into mrgn, an AI tool that gives small businesses the insights usually only big companies can afford.
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Case Study #4: From a Consulting Project to a Web Scraping Platform With $8M in ARR
Check out how the two founders turned a client project into an $8M+ web scraping platform for developers.
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Case Study #3: With $12.7 million in funding, this founder is making video production easy and accessible for millions.
Exploring how Julia Enthoven and Eric Lu turned simple video editing apps into a comprehensive content creation powerhouse, all with a $12.7M kickstart.
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Case Study #2: From 0 to 7 Figures in 5 Months - The Try it on AI Story
From online hacks to global impact: the story of a visionary duo's journey from casual tinkering to transforming the AI photography landscape, fueled by a groundbreaking 'TikTok moment' that propelled their startup to viral fame.
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Case Study #1: 3-Person AI Team Turns Memes into $ with Zero Marketing Full Story
See how the Supermeme.ai team validated their idea in just 2 weeks and now has over 550,000 users worldwide