Growth Investor with GrowthCap‘s RJ Lumba

Supercharging With Protein: The EVERY Company’s Arturo Elizondo

In this episode, we speak with Arturo Elizondo, Co-founder and CEO of The EVERY Company, which is an American biotechnology company that develops proteins and other products traditionally sourced from animals.

The company’s versatile proteins are proven solutions for a variety of applications, from bars and beverages to bakery, alt meat and novel foods and beverages that benefit from a protein boost.

Arturo has led The EVERY Company as its Co-founder and CEO for the last decade from concept through commercialization.  The Company has raised over $200 million dollars from notable investors.

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A 1000x Faster Database Solution: ClickHouse’s Aaron Katz

In this episode, we speak with Aaron Katz, Co-Founder and CEO of ClickHouse. ClickHouse is an open-source database management system which allows users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time.

Its technology works 100-1000x faster than traditional database management systems, and processes hundreds of millions to over a billion rows and tens of gigabytes of data per server per second.

Before founding ClickHouse, Aaron helped grow salesforce.com between 2002 - 2014 from a private, 200 employee startup, to a $200 billion market leader. He was also part of the team that took Elastic public and drove revenue from $5 million to $500 million.

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Decades of Leadership in Private Investing: Cambridge Associates’ Andrea Auerbach

In this episode, we speak with Andrea Auerbach, Head of Global Private Investments at Cambridge Associates.

Cambridge Associates is a global investment firm that works with endowments, foundations, healthcare systems, pension plans, and private clients to implement and manage custom investment portfolios. With 50 years of institutional investing experience, the firm delivers a range of portfolio management services, including outsourced CIO, non-discretionary portfolio management, staff extension, and asset class mandates.

Andrea leads a 50-person team sourcing and underwriting private equity, growth equity, distressed, and venture capital funds, as well as direct, co-investment, and secondary investment opportunities, resulting in over $10 billion being invested annually across these strategies. She is also a member of the firm’s Leadership Team and leads CA’s Discretionary Private Investments practice.

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Tech Entrepreneur Polymath: Figment’s Lorien Gabel

In this episode, we speak with Lorien Gabel, Co-founder and CEO of Figment, the leading provider of blockchain infrastructure. The company has raised over $150 million and is backed by Thoma Bravo, B Capital, Two Sigma, and other notable investors.

Figment provides comprehensive staking solutions for over 250 institutional clients. The world’s largest asset managers, custodians, exchanges, foundations, and token holders leverage Figment’s infrastructure and APIs to earn staking rewards. Staking is a process in which token holders can earn rewards by helping to secure a blockchain network.

Before Co-Founding Figment, Lorien was both a serial entrepreneur and corporate executive.  Along with his brother, Lorien founded three companies - 1) pingg.com, which was acquired by 1800-Flowers, 2) Bird on a Wire Networks, which was acquired by AT&T Canada and 3) Interlog, one of Canada’s first commercial ISPs, which was acquired by a large multinational telecommunications provider.

Lorien also spearheaded the exponential U.S. growth of UK-based tech company MessageLabs as Global VP Business Development, ran a division of Fortune 500 company Micron, and has served on the advisory board of a number of start-ups.

Lorien supports The Murph Challenge. To learn more about the annual event click here.

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Navy SEALs of Company Scaling: Turn/River’s Joanne Yuan

In this episode, we speak with Joanne Yuan of Turn/River Capital, a leading technology growth equity and buyout firm that specializes in buyouts, spin-outs, growth capital investments, founder liquidity, and recapitalizations of technology, web, and SaaS companies.

Based in San Francisco, the firm is highly effective in rapidly scaling operations. With deep expertise in sales, marketing, customer success, and finance, its team acts like a software firm - they adapt Silicon Valley’s best modern software growth tactics to companies everywhere, carving a path for capital-efficient growth without compromises. 

Joanne is a Partner at Turn/River. Growing up, she spent most weekends selling parts at computer trade shows, helping her dad run his one-man shop. That’s how she experienced firsthand the challenges bootstrapped companies face and the resiliency of their leaders. Joanne has invested in software from pre-launch to post-IPO, and worked everywhere from seed-stage venture to Google.

Joanne was selected as one of GrowthCap’s Top Women Leaders in Growth Investing of 2023.

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Becoming The Market Leader: GPRS’ Matt Aston

In this episode, we speak with Matt Aston, President and CEO of GPRS, who has built his company from an idea to over $160 million in annual revenue. GPRS or Ground Penetrating Radar Systems is the nation’s largest company specializing in the detection of underground utilities, video pipe inspection, and the scanning of concrete structures.

Matt founded GPRS in 2001 and the company has grown to be a great success in its market. Its 99.8%+ accuracy rating on over 250,000 projects leads the industry.  The company has worked on some of the largest and most significant construction projects in the country. GPRS is backed by CIVC Partners.

Matt supports LifeWise Academy. To learn more about this organization click here.

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A Global Platform for Exceptional Founders: Apax Digital’s Marcelo Gigliani

In this episode, we speak with Marcelo Gigliani, Managing Partner of Apax Digital, where he is focused on growth equity investments in the software, internet, and technology-enabled services areas. He serves as a member of the Apax Digital Fund Investment Committee and the Apax Inclusion & Diversity Council.

Apax Digital partners with exceptional founders and leadership teams of innovative SaaS, internet, and tech-enabled services companies worldwide to unlock their maximum potential. The firm has 35 years of tech investing experience and typically invests $50-$200 million per partnership.

Marcelo joined Apax in 1999 and co-founded Apax Digital in 2017. Marcelo has led a number of the Apax Funds’ digital deals, including Accurate Background, Boats Group (BoatTrader), Dealer.com, idealista, MetaMetrics, Solita, SoYoung, Trader Corporation (AutoTrader Canada), and Wizeline.

Marcelo supports BUILD NYC.  To learn more about this organization click here.

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Brilliant Minds in Biotech: Arbor Biotechnologies’ Devyn Smith

In this episode, we speak with Devyn Smith, the CEO of Arbor Biotechnologies, which is an early stage life sciences company pushing the boundaries of biodiscovery.  Arbor has raised over $200 million dollars and is backed by Temasek and other notable investors.

Devyn also serves as Chairman of the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM) and advises multiple biotech companies. Previously, he was Chief Operations Officer and Head of Strategy at Sigilon Therapeutics, a clinical stage biotechnology company, and before that he was Head of Operations and Strategy, Medicinal Sciences at Pfizer.

Arbor’s platform employs a diverse set of technologies and techniques – including artificial intelligence, genome sequencing, gene synthesis and high-throughput screening – for accelerating the discovery of proteins for improving human health and sustainability.

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Private Market Innovation At Scale: Partners Group’s Robert Collins

In this episode, we speak with Robert Collins of Partners Group, where he serves as Co-Head of Private Wealth, Head of the firm’s New York Office and a member of the Global Executive Board.

Partners Group is a leading global private markets firm. Since 1996, the firm has invested over $200 billion in private equity, private debt, private real estate, and private infrastructure on behalf of its clients.

The firm seeks to generate strong returns through capitalizing on thematic growth trends and transforming attractive businesses and assets into market leaders. Partners Group is a committed, responsible investor and aims to create sustainable returns with lasting, positive impact for all its stakeholders.

Robert leads Partners Group's US private wealth and defined contribution practice and is President, Portfolio Manager and Member of the Board of Managers of Partners Group Private Equity (Master Fund). He also chairs Partners Group (USA)’s Investment Committee. Robert joined the firm in 2005 as a member of the Private Equity investment team and has 23 years of industry experience.

Robert supports LUNGevity Foundation.  To learn more about this organization click here.

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Best in Class Revenue Platform: Clari’s Andy Byrne

In this episode, we speak with Andy Byrne, CEO and Co-founder of Clari. Clari is a platform that uses AI and machine learning to support sales teams by integrating with their existing CRM systems.

Thousands of sales, marketing, and customer success teams at leading companies, including Okta, Adobe, Workday, Zoom, and Finastra, use Clari’s execution insights to make their revenue process more connected, efficient, and predictable.

The company is backed by Blackstone, Silver Lake, Sapphire Ventures, Tenaya, Bain Capital, Sequoia and other notable investors.

Prior to Clari, Byrne was a founding executive at Clearwell, which he helped grow from pre-product and pre-revenue in 2005 to an $80 million annual revenue run rate until its acquisition by Symantec in 2011.

Andy supports Rise Against Hunger. To learn more about this organization click here.

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