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Krenar Komoni

Founder and CEO, Tive · 1 appearance on the record.

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Krenar Komoni is the founder and CEO of Tive, a supply chain visibility platform launched in 2015. He previously worked in wireless communications and RF engineering at startups including BitWave Semiconductor and Eta Devices.

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Prediction Not checkable as stated
Komoni predicts AI agents will autonomously negotiate cross-company supply chain logistics
“Every package, every shipment, we will know what's happening with it. It's going to speak. AI agents are going to know what actions to take based on those, whether it's email, whether it's phone call, they're going to talk to other companies, agents. And resol…”
Krenar Komoni Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 19:47 Tive Hit $100M Revenue After a Down Round and $10K in the Bank
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tive recently surpassed $100M in booked annual run rate
“Yeah, huge milestone last week. We hit a hundred million of booked annual run rates.”
Krenar Komoni Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 0:51 Tive Hit $100M Revenue After a Down Round and $10K in the Bank
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tive grew recognized revenue from $2.5M in 2020 to $67M in 2025
“Sixty seven million last year. 45 in 2024. Twenty nine million in 2023. Revenue. 19, almost twenty million in 2022. Ten million in 2021. So that's when we did ten million of actual revenue. Two and a half million of revenue in 2020.”
Krenar Komoni Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 6:40 Tive Hit $100M Revenue After a Down Round and $10K in the Bank
Insight
Komoni argues startups require product-market-price fit, not just product-market fit
“And I realized one thing, it's not all about product market fit. It's product market price fit.”
Krenar Komoni Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 10:59 Tive Hit $100M Revenue After a Down Round and $10K in the Bank
Assertion Partly supported
Tive built the first single-use 2G tracker in 2018 for $29
“We went to China in 20, like around 18, I think, yeah, early 2018, and we met every manufacturer out there that can make a tracker, and we built the world's first, like, single-use, two-g tracker that we sold for 29 bucks.”
Krenar Komoni Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 11:17 Tive Hit $100M Revenue After a Down Round and $10K in the Bank
Insight
Komoni argues SDRs and BDRs are the true heartbeat of a company
“And I learned that SDRs or BDRs, whatever you want to call that that frontline, that spear is actually the heartbeat of the company. And I think many founders forget that many entrepreneurs forget that. I respect that job more than any other job since. Because…”
Krenar Komoni Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 13:26 Tive Hit $100M Revenue After a Down Round and $10K in the Bank
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tive has secured at least nine customers paying $1M+ annually
“I think we have around Nine or yeah, it's better million plus customers.”
Krenar Komoni Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 15:15 Tive Hit $100M Revenue After a Down Round and $10K in the Bank
Disclosure
Tive survived a 2019 cash crunch with a $100K down round note
“And then we almost ran out of money in July of 2019. We had 10,000 dollars, 10 to 20,000 dollars in the bank, and then I had to raise a convertible note of a secured convertible note and got 100,000 dollars at a down round.”
Krenar Komoni Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 17:42 Tive Hit $100M Revenue After a Down Round and $10K in the Bank
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tive tracking devices capture up to 15 data points per ping
“Per ping, I would say at least around 12 to 15. So think of X, Y, Z of accelerometer, then you get temperature, then you get humidity, you get shock if it happens, light, and then location, you have GPS, you have Wi-Fi positioning, you have also cellular tower…”
Krenar Komoni Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 4:14 Tive Hit $100M Revenue After a Down Round and $10K in the Bank
Disclosure
Komoni took a few hundred thousand in secondary liquidity for his mortgage
“I did, but small. Being transparent, a few 100,000 dollars. So, maybe Helped a little bit with a mortgage.”
Krenar Komoni Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 8:12 Tive Hit $100M Revenue After a Down Round and $10K in the Bank
Disclosure
Signal Ventures encouraged Komoni to take secondary liquidity during Series A1
“I would say one of my investors actually encouraged me quite a bit on series A one, which gave me that courage. Otherwise I wouldn't have the courage. And then from there I built that courage to ask a little bit more, but yeah, he was from two signal ventures.…”
Krenar Komoni Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 8:29 Tive Hit $100M Revenue After a Down Round and $10K in the Bank
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tive has acquired nearly 1,300 enterprise customer logos to date
“So we have almost 1300 logos.”
Krenar Komoni Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 14:45 Tive Hit $100M Revenue After a Down Round and $10K in the Bank
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Tive valuation plummeted from $21M to $11M during a 2019 down round
“No, it was from 21 down to 11.”
Krenar Komoni Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 18:08 Tive Hit $100M Revenue After a Down Round and $10K in the Bank

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Tive Hit $100M Revenue After a Down Round and $10K in the Bank Jun 11, 2026 15m
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