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Clear all filters- RAISE Summit19 min
Benoît Dageville @ RAISE 2025: Zero to IPO and Beyond. From Startup to Snowfall Building Snowflake
Benoît Dageville, Roxanne Varza
After founding Snowflake in 2012 to decouple data storage and compute, co-founders Benoit Dageville and Thierry Kremer steered the company to the most expensive software IPO in history while rejecting acquisition offers to maintain their independent vision. Today, the enterprise serves thousands of clients including OpenAI and Disney by abstracting infrastructure complexity, a strategy that enables users to reduce processing times from weeks to minutes. The platform now leverages AI to ingest unstructured data and democratize analytics, allowing non-technical employees to access enterprise-grade insights without deep SQL expertise.
- RAISE Summit19 min
Cloudflare CSO, Stephanie Cohen: The Future of Content & Fair Compensation in the Age of AI
Stephanie Cohen, Matthew Prince
Cloudflare Chief Strategy Officer Stephanie Cohen announces the implementation of "Content Independence Day," a permission-based policy that allows website owners to block or charge AI crawlers for access via new default settings. This initiative seeks to rebalance the relationship between content creators and technology platforms by establishing a market where data-rich sectors, particularly financial services, can monetize their intellectual property directly. While facing industry pushback from competitors who argue against restricting bot access, Cohen contends that shifting to a controlled ecosystem is essential to incentivize high-value content creation and secure a sustainable future for the internet.
- RAISE Summit15 min
Conversation with Daniel Dines, Founder & CEO of UiPath
UiPath is transitioning its 10,000 enterprise clients from traditional RPA to agentic AI by introducing orchestration engines that manage both specialized workflow agents and dynamic master agents within a secure governance framework. CEO Daniel Deneis advises the European market to avoid isolation by verticalizing AI solutions and leveraging defense-industry partnerships to compete against US and Chinese dominance, while urging governments to prioritize aggressive adoption over premature regulation. Supporting this global vision, the company is acquiring vertical startups like Peak to solve distribution challenges and encouraging founders to execute rapidly to dominate specific market spaces.
- RAISE Summit17 min
Snyk CEO, Peter McKay: Building Securely in the AI Era
Snyk has pivoted from its roots as a developer security pioneer to an AI-first organization that launched an AI Trust Platform to secure the exponential growth of code generation vulnerabilities. By integrating guardrails into tools like GitHub Copilot and Cursor, the company leverages its decade of DevSecOps experience to automate vulnerability remediation and protect agentic systems for its 4,500 global customers. Backed by $400 million in cash reserves for strategic acquisitions, Snyk is aggressively executing an "AI SecOps" strategy to shift enterprise security from a reactive model to one where protection is built-in by default for a rapidly expanding universe of non-technical developers.
- RAISE Summit19 min
Anton Osika (CEO & Founder of Lovable): 0-75M ARR in 7 Months Winning Agentic Coding & Beyond
Lovable, a European-founded AI software builder, has rapidly scaled to 90 million users and 180,000 paying customers within seven months by democratizing application development for non-engineers. The platform distinguishes itself through enterprise adoption for rapid prototyping and high-velocity founder successes, such as a $3 million revenue-generating educational product created in two days, effectively replacing traditional CTO functions. Founder Anton positions this tool as a comprehensive operating system for business lifecycles, driving global market leadership by lowering the technical barriers that previously hindered the "99%" of aspiring creators.
- RAISE Summit20 min
'How GenAI Disrupted Customer Support' by Des Traynor, Founder & CSO Intercom | RAISE Summit 2024
Intercom rapidly pivoted to an AI-first strategy following the 2023 launch of ChatGPT, deploying its autonomous Finn agent to resolve eight million support queries while displacing 750,000 hours of human labor. To ensure reliability in high-volume sectors like software and e-commerce, the company prioritizes proprietary data sources over public web content to minimize hallucinations and employs a rigorous model-agnostic evaluation framework. This transformation, which intentionally cannibalizes traditional human agent seats to prevent external disruption, is set to expand into multimodal voice and visual analysis with a collaborative human-AI platform launching in mid-April.
- RAISE Summit11 min
Florian Douettau, CEO and Co-Founder of Dataiku | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
DataIQ founder and CEO Florian guides the French-born AI enterprise software firm, which has achieved unicorn status with over $850 million in funding and serves 600 global clients. While maintaining its engineering roots in France to leverage top talent, the company strategically positions itself as an American entity to meet U.S. market expectations and fund its research operations. The organization promotes a long-term "co-creation" model to help large enterprises overcome generative AI adoption barriers like hallucinations, forecasting full responsible integration within five to ten years rather than the current hype cycle.