GrowthCap‘s RJ Lumba speaks with Investors, Entrepreneurs, and Executives to uncover insights and strategies for accelerating growth and succeeding in business.
Episodes
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
In this episode, we speak with Warren Valdmanis, Partner at Two Sigma Impact, the impact investing business of Two Sigma exclusively focused on workforce impact.
Two Sigma Impact combines active, principled ownership and data science with the goal of achieving superior returns and positive social outcomes. It invests in industries that rely heavily on human capital such as education and training, healthcare, consumer, and business services.
They believe improving employee engagement and creating more good jobs can improve business performance and create a model for other companies to emulate.
Previously, Warren was a Managing Director at Bain Capital, where he helped launch the firm’s first dedicated social impact fund and develop the firm’s strategic approach to social impact investing. Warren worked at Bain Capital from 2005 to 2019.
I am your host RJ Lumba. We hope you enjoy the show.
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
In this episode, we speak with Don Muir, Co-Founder and CEO of Arc Technologies. Founded in 2021, Arc provides a better way for software startups to raise capital without incurring costly dilution and risky debt.
Arc converts a startups’ future revenue into upfront capital, provides a cash management account to store, manage and spend funds, and delivers financial analytics to drive growth.
The Company is backed by Left Lane Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, NFX and Atalaya Capital, among others.
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Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
In this episode, we speak with Bryan Mistele, Co-Founder and CEO of INRIX, the global leader in connected car services and mobility analytics. The Company is at the forefront of connecting cars to smarter cities in more than 60 countries around the world.
Founded in 2004, INRIX pioneered the practice of managing traffic by analyzing data not just from road sensors, but also from vehicles.
Prior to INRIX, Bryan was an executive at Microsoft. He built HomeAdvisor into the #1 ranked business-to-business and business-to-consumer company in both the online mortgage and real estate industries. The company was a joint venture between Microsoft and five leading mortgage banks.
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Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
In this episode, we speak with Albert Nieto Riera, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Seedtag. Seedtag is the leading contextual advertising company in Europe and Latin America. With AI technology based on machine learning algorithms, the company powers the most relevant and engaging communications in a privacy-first world through contextual advertising.
The company has raised over $300 million dollars from leading investors including Advent International and Oakley Capital.
Seedtag was founded in 2014 by two former Googlers with a clear mission: to change how online advertising is done. Today, Seedtag has a large international presence with over 400 employees across offices in Europe, the United States, and Latin America.
I am your host RJ Lumba. We hope you enjoy the show.
Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
In this episode, we speak with Steve Pierson, Managing Partner at Lovell Minnick Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2016, Steve was at UBS where he served as Head of Financial Institutions Investment Banking Americas and Global Head of Financial Technology & Services.
Lovell Minnick Partners is a middle market private equity firm focused on investments in financial services, financial technology and related business services. Since its inception in 1999, the firm has raised $3.5 billion of committed capital from leading institutional investors.
Lovell Minnick Partners was recognized by GrowthCap as a Top 25 Private Equity Firm of 2022.
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Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
In this episode, we speak with Alexandre de Vigan, Founder and CEO of nfinite. nfinite is the leading e-merchandising platform for online merchants to create, display and manage product visual experiences to increase their online sales.
The company has raised over $100 million dollars from leading investors including Insight Partners and U.S. Venture Partners.
nfinite is all about helping the world usher in the post-shoot era in which product visual availability is no longer reliant on costly, logistical, and carbon-heavy photoshoots.
Visual production is shifting to computer-generated 3D imagery (CGI) — which facilitates higher performance and resource efficiencies and has less environmental impact.
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Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
In this episode, we speak with Gregg Johnson, the CEO of Invoca. Gregg is a seasoned software leader who previously led Salesforce Marketing Cloud’s social marketing product line, where he integrated $1 billion of M&A investments into the Salesforce product portfolio. He is also a successful entrepreneur.
Invoca is the cloud leader in AI-powered conversation intelligence for revenue teams that enables marketing, sales, customer experience, and eCommerce teams to understand and immediately act on the information consumers share via conversations.
The company has raised $184 million from leading venture capitalists including Upfront Ventures, Accel, Silver Lake Waterman, H.I.G. Growth Partners, and Salesforce Ventures.
I am your host RJ Lumba. We hope you enjoy the show.
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
In this episode, we speak with Michael Kumin, Managing Director at Great Hill Partners, which he joined in 2002. Michael serves on the firm’s Investment Committee and Executive Committee. He focuses on digital commerce and software investments.
Great Hill Partners is a Boston-based private equity firm that invests in high-growth, disruptive companies across five core sectors (software, digital commerce, financial technology, healthcare, and digital infrastructure). Over the past two decades, Great Hill has raised over $12 billion of commitments across eight funds and invested in more than 95 companies.
The Firm was recognized by GrowthCap as a Top 25 Private Equity Firm of 2022.
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Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
In this episode, we speak with Nate Locke, Managing Partner and Co-Head of Growth Equity at Kayne Partners.
Nate has played a key role in partnering with many of the 48 platform investments and contributing to the 25 exits completed by the Kayne Partners team across six funds and six co-investment vehicles.
He was recognized by GrowthCap as a Top 25 Software Investor of 2022.
Nate’s select transaction experience includes the sale of Chicago-based, 4C Insights, MaintenanceNet, Learn.com, 3CInteractive and the recapitalizations of Source Intelligence, and myKaarma.
I am your host RJ Lumba. We hope you enjoy the show.
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
In this episode, we speak with Rachel Geller, Managing Director at Insight Partners where she helps lead investments in high-growth software and internet companies, with a focus on application software and marketplaces.
Rachel has provided investment, growth and M&A support for more than 50 portfolio companies. She is also a vocal advocate for increased diversity in both the software and investment sectors and is a driving force behind many of Insight’s DE&I initiatives.
Rachel was recognized by GrowthCap as one of the Top Women Leaders in Growth Investing of 2022.
Founded in 1995, Insight has been focused on scaling software companies for over two and a half decades and has invested in over 700 companies worldwide. The firm has over $90 billion in assets under management.
I am your host RJ Lumba. We hope you enjoy the show.