Gorgias is a startup that offers e-commerce businesses a platform to automate answers to the most common questions received from clients thanks to its machine learning algorithm. In an interview with The Org, entrepreneur and CEO Romain Lapeyre shared how the team went from persevering to find product-market fit to reaching a 200% yearly growth rate and building a client roaster of more than 7,200 merchants across the globe.

Gorgias CEO Romain Lapeyre and CTO Alex Plugaru. Image Courtesy of Gorgias.


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How Gorgias Is Helping Thousands Of Shopify Businesses Turn Their Customer Supports Into Profit Centers

From an early age, Wes Kao found the classroom rigid. She wasn’t the best exam sitter, and she often struggled with focusing in class. Kao is the co-founder of Maven, a cohort-based online learning platform building universities of the future. The Org speaks with Kao to learn more about her company that is building the universities of the future.

Maven Founders (L-R) Gagan Biyani, Wes Kao, Shreyans Bhansali. Image courtesy of Maven.

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Maven is Building Universities of the Future

In the Summer of 2017, Christian Wylonis read an article that would change the trajectory of his life.  He decided to leave his job to build a platform where every company in the world could have a public org chart in order to attract, align and retain talent. Fast forward to 2021, The Org has raised a total of $31.5 million from some of the world’s leading investors including Tiger Global, Founders Fund, Sequoia and Balderton.

Co-founders Christian Wylonis (left) and Andreas Jarbol (right). Image courtesy of The Org.

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Christian Wylonis is Making Organizations More Transparent With Public Org Charts

Last month, startup Marshmallow secured the funding that made it a unicorn. The company is currently valued at $1.25 billion and is set to grow by more than 100% YoY in 2021. The car insurer’s Co-founder and CEO Oliver Kent-Braham spoke to The Org about what it takes to expand and why culture-first team building is vital to success.

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Car Insurance Startup Marshmallow Is Switching Up the Sector With an Agile, People Centered Approach

Since its inception in December 2017, Novakid has raised a total of $41.5 million in funding. Most recently in August, the startup closed a $35 million Series B led by Goodwater Capital and Owl Ventures. The Org spoke with Azarov to learn more about how he grew Novakid and the decisions he made along the way that helped him scale his business.


Maxim Azarov, CEO and Co-founder of Novakid. Image courtesy of Novakid.

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Novakid is Teaching Children Around the World How to Speak English

It's been seven years since a team of six co-founders went on a mission to develop Andela, the world's first global tech talent marketplace and a leader in connecting brilliant young Africans with global opportunities. The co-founders started out with one office in Lagos, Nigeria scaling to Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana and then Egypt and they have since successfully scaled their operations to attract talent from over 90 countries. 


Jeremy Johnson, CEO and co-founder of Andela. Image courtesy of Andela.

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CEO of Andela On Harnessing Tech Talent in Africa to Become a Unicorn

If we said there was a company with a fantastic culture that helped organizations grow and its favorite color was orange, which company comes to mind? We’re talking about HubSpot.


Camilo Clavijo, Hubspot’s Senior Sales Director and Country Manager Latam. Image courtesy of Hubspot.

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How Hubspot Is Earning LatAm’s HEART

Instant delivery services have taken New York City by storm. Residents in the big apple are ordering diapers, spices and soft drinks from their phones, and receiving them in under 15 minutes. Joining the competitive market of speedy delivery is Gopuff, which officially launched in New York City last week and is operating in a handful of locations across Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens. 

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How Gopuff Grew From A College Campus to Over 1,000 Cities

The Org has looked into some of the top investing themes in China’s market as of October 2021, and some of the venture capitalists leading the way in investments.

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What’s Trending in China’s Investment Scene

Remote, a startup that is committed to simplifying how companies hire global talent, raised a $150 million Series B in July this year, bringing its valuation to over $1 billion. The Org speaks with Job van der Voort to understand how he is building the future of remote work.

Job van der Voort, CEO and co-founder of Remote. Image courtesy of Remote.

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How Remote's CEO is Building the Future of Work

Parisians Mathilde Collin and Laurent Perrin wanted to build a company that could help people be happier at work, so they went back to the basics and took a cold hard look at one of the most critical work tools -- email. The Org speaks with Collin to learn about how she grew Front into a billion-dollar business.



Mathilde Collin, co-founder and CEO of Front. Image courtesy of Front.

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How Mathilde Collin is Shaping the Future of Email With Front

Less than a year and a half after its launch, Pacaso — a real estate platform that simplifies second home ownership — reached ‘unicorn’ status. The Org speaks with co-founder and CEO Austin Allison, to learn the secret behind his startup's success. 

Austin Allison, co-founder and CEO of Pacaso. Image courtesy of Pacaso.

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Building Real Estate Unicorn Pacaso With Austin Allison

The Org speaks with Martin Schrimpff, co-founder of Kocomo, a company that is making owning a vacation home a more pleasant experience. 

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Colombian Entrepreneur Martin Schrimpff Is Making The Dream of Vacation Home Ownership a Reality Via Kocomo

Rocket.Chat is a communication platform used by the likes of Deutsche Bank, The U.S. Navy and Credit Suisse. Although it may seem simply an open-source version of Slack, Gabriel Engel has a much greater vision in mind for his company. The Org speaks with Rocket.Chat founder Gabriel Engel about how he built his startup from the ground up. 

Rocket.Chat CEO, Gabriel Engel. Image courtesy of Rocket.Chat.

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