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Rima Al-Sheikh

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
142 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

and maintain them in a particular contained environment and so on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

So what we do is we provide these solutions to scale-ups without having to build their own in-house expertise or data platforms or hire machine learning engineers, which take a long time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

So yeah, so that's the kind of like testing we've been working on, you know, detection of fake content and recommendations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

At the moment, it's free because for us, we're building a very challenging platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

So for us, really, it was about proving the viability of the technology first.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

And now we're getting to the point where we're getting ready to launch.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

And then as we launch, I'm confident that some of these customers will turn into paying customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

Great question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

We're about 10 between part-time and full-time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

Six is core team full-time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

I am the sole founder.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

Well, to be honest with you, like I started this as a, because I was trying to solve a very small problem and, and tinkering through the problem, I found a very general purpose solution.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

And, and I was like, holy moly, this could be huge, you know, because I found a way to connect, to get companies to work together, to enrich their data sets in a private way without, you know, without compromising the security and their IP.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

Yeah, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

Well, think of it as an ecosystem of players who are working together to fight scam or build customer experiences across devices like cars, watches, etc.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

So when I found this process to do this solution, I thought,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

this could be huge, but I need to talk to someone like to figure out if I'm like, am I living in my head?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

So I started calling potential customers and I wanted to try to find a co-founder, but I was moving.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m

I was already flying at a high speed and trying to catch up someone to where, you know, where this is going felt like more of a distraction than actually, you know, positive value.