Episode #280 of The VentureFizz Podcast features Sravish Sridhar - Founder & CEO of Kintent.
I first met Sravish about 10 years ago. It was an era where there was a resurgence in the Boston tech scene. A new level of excitement that was fueled by a crop of young entrepreneurs who were building companies that were powered by accelerators or incubators like Techstars, Dogpatch Labs, Bolt, and others.
What is great about this era in the Boston tech scene is that many of these entrepreneurs, like Sravish, have exited and are now on to building their next startup. Having successful serial entrepreneurs is a critical part of the success of a land standing major startup ecosystem. Not only do they have more experience and lessons learned from their first company, but they can also think longer term and swing for the fences.
Sravish’s last company was Kinvey, a company that coined the term Backend-As-A-Service with their platform for mobile developers. The company was acquired by Progress in 2017.
His current company is called Kintent, which is looking to become the trusted platform for compliance. Its Trust Cloud will help eliminate those dreaded compliance and security questionnaires that you get from companies that take forever to fill out. The company announced its $18M Series A round of funding led by OpenView earlier this year.
In this episode of our podcast, we cover:
- Advice for founders on the acquisition process.
- Sravish’s background growing up including how he got involved as an early employee at a startup called United Devices that was a pre-cursor to cloud computing.
- The story of Kinvey and its acquisition by Progress.
- All the details on Kintent and what the future looks like for the company.
- Advice for getting started as an angel investor.
- And so much more.