Brian Reale: How a 15-Year Old Company Benefitted From Bootstrapping and A Simple Cap Table
- S3E1
- 45:08
- September 13th 2022
Welcome to season three! In this episode, host Kevin Mosley talks with entrepreneur Brian Reale, who has more than 15 years of experience building tech companies. He co-founded and runs Durham-based ProcessMaker, one of the world's leading Open Source BPM & Workflow Software Suites. It is now available in 17 different languages and has been downloaded more than 1 million times. In February 2021, Aldrich Capital Partners invested $45 million in the company, taking majority stake. Brian managed to squeeze the nearly 15 year business journey into 40 minutes. Tune in to hear him discuss bootstrapping, meeting with financial advisors, OEM deals, relocating to Durham, and more.
Exit Stories
Exit Stories features tech founders, buyers, and sellers from the Triangle, North Carolina and the Southeast to tell their stories about raising capital and selling their startups.
This program is produced by GrepBeat and hosted by Kevin Mosley of Jurassic Capital.
Meet the Host
Kevin is a General Partner at Jurassic Capital, a Durham, NC-based Growth Equity firm focused on growing B2B software companies in the Southeast. Alongside cofounder Joe Colopy, Jurassic’s deep entrepreneurial and operating experience from Bronto and other SaaS companies helps grow and scale capital-efficient companies over $1M in Revenue. They recently closed a $20M+ fund and have portfolio companies building software in HR (Workdove), B2B eCommerce (Corevist), and Test Automation (Cycle Labs).
Kevin spent his pre-Jurassic career operating at growth-stage software companies, including Sageworks, Lulu, Bronto, and Republic Wireless/Relay. He graduated with a BS in Finance from Clemson and loves spending time with his wife in the Triangle as well as watching and playing all sports, especially golf and tennis.