Cloud Startups

Nexar is an AI-powered dash cam app that uses smartphone sensors and machine learning to detect driving behavior, capture license plates, and create driver scores. Launched 9 months prior to this interview, the app had already captured approximately 80,000 license plates daily across Tel Aviv, San Francisco, and New York. The company raised $4 million in Series A funding led by Olive VC and is building a valuable crowdsourced road mapping data asset that surpassed Google Street View's coverage in just nine months.

PAR Technologies is an enterprise SaaS company providing point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management software serving major chains like Sweetgreen, RB, and Five Guys. Under CEO Sab (hired in 2019 to sell the company), PAR transformed from a struggling hardware business with only $5M in SaaS revenue to a market leader with $115M+ in SaaS ARR by 2022, growing 50-75% annually through aggressive product rebuilds, M&A, and culture realignment focused on speed, ownership, focus, and winning.