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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

We raised the pre-seed round.

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

A million dollars.

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

It was December last year.

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

So December 2021.

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

No, it was 10 pre-seed.

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

Well, the technology we're building is really hard.

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

I mean, if you look at what we're doing, you might think it's a crowded space.

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

Everybody's trying to simplify workflow and machine learning.

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

But we're really taking it to a whole new level by doing all the processing on devices.

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

And that basically eliminates a year from the timeline of production for companies.

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

So that's really significant.

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

And I think this company can be really huge.

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

Well, I mean, what I am building is something that I know inside out that I can talk about for like years.

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

So I've, you know, for the last 10 years, I've been dealing with scale challenges.

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

So I've helped companies of all sizes to like go from having a few hundred thousand users to dealing with like those million customers hitting their databases at scale.

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

Um, sure.

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

Uh, so in, uh, I'm so I'm just like rolling through all the NDAs in my head, but there might be a better way to do this.

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

Yeah, so we had about 50 data engineers, data scientists helping all kinds of enterprises in the automotive industry, in airlines, airports, healthcare.

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

We've helped a lot of different companies deal with some of these scale challenges that I'm mentioning and building their data platforms.

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

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