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Cristina Vila Vives and the trouble with one more subscription
At dopay, Cristina Vila Vives saw software subscriptions turn into an operations problem. She built Cledara to help teams keep their freedom to buy - and give companies a way to keep track.
Aurea wants your software bill to buy more software
Aurea built an enterprise software library by acquisition, then gave customers a way to reuse their spending across it. Its turn toward AI puts a new question behind the old subscription: how much useful work can one bill buy?
Cristina Vila Vives
Cristina Vila Vives is the founder and CEO of Cledara, a SaaS spend-management platform that gives companies visibility and control over their software subscriptions. After more than a decade running operations teams in the financial industry, she launched Cledara in 2018 to solve a problem she kept seeing firsthand: companies losing money and time to a sprawling, unmanaged stack of software. Cledara now serves over a thousand customers across Europe and the United States, and Forbes has named her among the business leaders changing the world.