Alejandro Cremades is the founding partner at Panthera Advisors, which is a premier investment banking and financial consulting firm with offices in New York and California. The firm focuses on small to medium size companies that are looking for M&A advisory as well as support with fundraising efforts.
Alejandro is a serial entrepreneur that most recently cofounded Onevest, one of the largest online communities of entrepreneurs. At the time of its acquisition, Onevest had close to 500,000 entrepreneurs in 234 countries registered on the platform.
Prior to Onevest, Alejandro was an attorney at King & Spalding where he was involved in one of the largest investment arbitration cases in history with $113 billion at stake (Chevron vs. Ecuador).
Alejandro guest lectures at NYU Stern School of Business and The Wharton Business School. Alejandro has been included in the Top 30 Under 30 lists of Vanity Fair, Entrepreneur Magazine, and GQ Magazine. Moreover, TechCrunch featured Alejandro as one of the expats that is shaping New York’s tech.
Alejandro has been involved with the JOBS Act since inception. He was invited to the White House and the US House of Representatives to provide his stands on the new regulatory changes.
Alejandro is a Forbes contributor as well as the author of the bestselling book The Art of Startup Fundraising. The book is published by John Wiley & Sons and includes a foreword by Barbara Corcoran.
Most recently, Alejandro published Selling Your Startup. Also published by John Wiley & Sons, the book includes a foreword by Bhavin Turakhia and it is intended to be a founders guide to getting their company acquired. The book includes testimonials from over 20 entrepreneurs that have sold their company for over $500 million.
Furthermore, Alejandro is the host of the popular DealMakers Podcast, where successful entrepreneurs share how they did it. The podcast is about to hit 2 million downloads and includes interviews with founders such as Valentin Stalff (built N26 to $4B), Kristo Kaarman (built Transferwise to $3B+), Mike Cagney (built SoFi to $4B+ and Figure to $1B+), Marco Zappacosta (built Thumbtack to $2B), Kevin O‘Connor (sold DoubleClick for over $1B), Rick Stollmeyer (sold Mindbody for $1.9B), Reggie Aggarwal (sold Cvent for $1.6B), Mohit Aron (built Nutanix to $7B and Cohesity to $1B), Henry Ward (built Carta to $2B+), Stefan Heck (built Nauto to $1B+), Matt Salzberg (built Blue Apron to $1B+), Henrique Dubugras (built Brex to $2B+), Ajeet Singh (built Thoughtspot to $1B+), and many others.