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Eddie Machaalani
Member #2,283FounderL1Co-founder & CEO, Zarla
Building Zarla, the next gen AI website builder
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About
Eddie Machaalani is co-founder and CEO of Zarla, an AI website builder for small businesses in Sydney. He also co-founded BigCommerce and helped start Zarla in 2019 with Adam Seabrook. Today Eddie focuses on a product that turns one sentence about a business into a complete website, with copy, photos and search settings.
Categories
Stack
Raises & exits
Member RaisesCapital raised
BigCommerce
$55M
BigCommerce
$40M
BigCommerce
$20M
BigCommerce
$15M
Exits
Hall of Fame →$1.8B
BigCommerce's August 2020 Nasdaq IPO priced at $24 per share and was valued at about $1.8 billion at that offer price, per Renaissance Capital; the stock then rallied to roughly $5 billion by the first day's close, which is a trading figure rather than the listing value.
Experience
Co-founder / CEO @ Zarla | AI, SaaS, Lead Gen
Co-founder / CEO Zarla · Zarla
Angel Investor · Mach Ventures
Co-Founder & Chief BBQ Officer · BigCommerce
