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Xavier Pladevall is a Dominican-American entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Index, a business intelligence startup that enables non-technical users to build dashboards without coding.

Early Life and Education
Pladevall was born and raised in the Dominican Republic. He and his childhood friend Eduardo Portet, who later became his Index co-founder, learned to code from YouTube videos and StackOverflow as they did not have access to computer science classes growing up. Pladevall came to the United States for college, attending Columbia University where he studied computer science. While at Columbia, he interned at Facebook.

Career
After graduating from Columbia, Pladevall moved to San Francisco without a job lined up. By chance, he ran into his childhood friend Eduardo Portet at a mall. Portet had also moved to San Francisco after attending Boston University. The two decided to start a company together and began pitching ideas at hackathons. After iterating through several products, they launched Index in January 2020 with the goal of enabling non-technical users to easily build business intelligence dashboards. In October 2020, Index raised a $2.6 million seed round led by David Sacks and Slack. Other investors included Gradient Ventures and Y Combinator. As an immigrant founder, Pladevall is passionate about building a diverse and inclusive company. Index was part of Y Combinator's Summer 2020 batch. In 2021, Pladevall was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the Enterprise Technology category for his work with Index.