Darren Kimura
Darren Kimura helps category creating start-ups rapidly grow and scale.
Kimura's journey began as a Founder/CEO, where he scaled two companies from inception to exit. Transitioning to venture capital, he invested in 18 early-stage technology firms, later moving into dual-roles as a VC and operator, becoming the CEO in one of his portfolio companies to guide its growth from $0-$50 million ARR in less than 5 years and successful exit. Kimura continued as an investor-operator and joined an open source technology company to help convert services revenue to ARR and achieve product-market fit. Today, Kimura's the CEO of AI Squared, helping to make AI easy to deploy, easy to use, and to bring meaningful ROI to large enterprises.
Career Achievements:
-Value Creation: Surpassed $1.1 billion in total enterprise value created
-Capital Formation: Raised over $350 million in start-up and growth equity and over $150 million in debt financing
-M&A: Acquired and integrated 8 companies
-Sales: Led the acquisition of over $1.5 billion in revenue
-Strategic Alliances: Created and managed recurring revenue engagements with 30 Global 2,000 companies
-Product Management: Managed 14 product lines from ideation to commercialization
-Technical: Inventor on 13 patents
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