Exit Stories

In the season finale, host Kevin Mosley is joined by Travis Milks, managing partner at Topmark Partners. It's a Florida and Durham-based growth equity firm that focuses on tech-enabled businesses. The pair discuss the secrets to developing a successful exit strategy, including understanding investment math and driving alignment between early and new investors. Travis also touches on the importance...

On today's episode, host Kevin Mosley chats with the founder and CEO of TradePending, Brice Englert. It's a software platform serving the automotive industry. Brice began his career in the space when he was hired by Trade Publishing Company, the folks behind Autotrader, in 2006. About eight years later, He decided to venture out on his own and create TrendPending, which enables buyers and sellers...

On this week's episode, host Kevin Mosley chats with David Johnson, the founder and former CEO of Raleigh-based certification software startup Atlas Certified. Last year, Atlas was acquired by New York-based CLEAR, an identity verification platform. David helped major companies such as HomeAdvisor, Amazon and Care. com to automate professional license verification, monitoring, and status changes....

In this week's episode, host Kevin Mosley chats with Michael O'Hare, who's a seasoned M&A advisor and investment banker. For the last 15 years, he has worked at RTP-based KeyBanc Capital Markets, where he is responsible for new business generation and M&A execution. Michael talks about early relationship-building, fundraising preparation, market trends and more.

On this week's episode, Kevin chats with Ben Hartmere, former CEO and president of InMotionNow, a company that has since rebranded as Lytho. Under his leadership, InMotionNow grew into a software-as-a-service platform that helps businesses manage their content product and marketing campaigns. He shares his insights on scaling a sales organization, the investment process, and their exit strategy. H...

In this episode, host Kevin Mosley is chatting Rob Crowe, the founder and former CEO of Matchwell, a tech platform that aims to transform healthcare workforce management. He talks about outsourcing their MVP product and launching it eight months before the pandemic hit. Rob initially had plans to bootstrap the company but quickly realized for how fast he wanted to build it, they needed outside fun...

In this episode, host Kevin Mosley chats with Dave Brinkman, the founder and former CEO of AssureSign. AssureSign is a pioneering company that revolutionized electronic signatures and digital transaction management. Dave shares insights on tough decisions, building a core leadership team, and the transformative relocation of the company. Hear the remarkable story of AssureSign's swift acquisition...

In this episode, host Kevin Mosley sits down with Mark Self, former CEO of Entigral Systems, a leading software development company in Raleigh. Mark shares his journey from board member to CEO and offers invaluable advice on entrepreneurship, fundraising, and due diligence. Discover how he turned challenges into opportunities and led Entigral to a successful acquisition by Asset Vue Solutions. Spe...

In this episode, host Kevin Mosley chats with Katy Jones, the former CEO of FoodLogiQ. Katy shares her inspiring journey from being the first marketing employee to leading FoodLogiQ through its acquisition. Learn about the challenges of launching SaaS products and gaining insights into the dynamic world of tech entrepreneurship. Special thanks to Robinson Bradshaw for sponsoring this season. It is...

In the season opener of season four, host Kevin Mosley talks with Karl Rectanus, one of the brilliant minds behind LearnPlatform - the groundbreaking edtech system that revolutionized K-12 education. From humble beginnings as a teaching fellow to being acquired by Instructure, the company behind Canvas, Karl shares his inspiring journey and valuable insights. This season is sponsored by  Robinson...

On the season 3 finale of Exit Stories, Pendo Co-founder Eric Boduch joins our host Kevin Mosley. For those unfamiliar, Pendo is a software company that helps clients collect data on how customers use their products. Eric recently exited the company to launch his own startup venture studio, 24 & Up, in early 2022. During this episode, Eric talks about his early entrepreneurial background, whic...

On this week's episode of Exit Stories, Ascend Goals Co-founder Christine Nicodemus joins our host Kevin Mosley. Ascend was created in 2019 as a simple goal setting app for high school students, but quickly evolved into something much more. Together with Reg Gabriel, Christine built the company into a student empowerment software platform that helps schools and mentoring organizations cultivate, t...

In this episode of Exit Stories, Karly Pavlinac, the co-founder and former CEO of WAAM, joins our host Kevin Mosley. WAAM was a digital training app connecting world-class trainers to individuals worldwide. The idea came to her while she was working at an architectural firm and teaching paddle board yoga in Hawaii during the summer of 2017. From personal experience, she understood how difficult it...

In this episode of Exit Stories, Ryan O'Donnell, the co-founder and former CEO of EmployUs, joins our host Kevin Mosley. EmployUs is a software company that aims to help employers get qualified applicants through referrals. As a student at NC State, Ryan launched a startup called Pennies 4 Progress, which ignited his entrepreneurial spirit. He worked as a recruiter post-grad and quickly realized r...

In this episode of Exit Stories, Chris Romeo, the co-founder and former CEO of Security Journey, joins our host Kevin Mosley. Romeo is a lifelong cybersecurity professional who embarked on an entrepreneurial path. At Cisco, he developed the company’s security training program, the Cisco Security Ninja. It aimed to teach developers and engineers the basics of cybersecurity and secure coding. The hi...

On this episode of Exit Stories, Bill Spruill, the founder and former CEO of Global Data Consortium (GDC), joins our host Kevin Mosley. GDC is an award winning worldwide digital identity verification platform.  From being in the enterprise data space to joining AddressDoctor, Spruill shares how everything he learned prepared him for GDC. Early on, the company struggled to find product market fit,...

In this episode of Exit Stories, serial entrepreneur Robbie Allen chats with our host Kevin Mosley. Robbie shares his journey in launching his website StatSheet, which transformed sports data into written content. In 2011, the company expanded to non-sports content and was renamed Automated Insights. Ai went on to produce over 1.5B pieces of automated content and release their natural language gen...

On this episode of Exit Stories, Greg Clary, the co-founder of Mi-Corporation, joins our host Kevin Mosley. Mi-Co is a leading enterprise mobile software company specializing in audits, inspections, surveys and assessments. Clary ran the company as CEO until it was acquired by IdeaGen in 2021. He chats with Kevin about its' early development, its involvement with Microsoft and Apple, and how they...

On this episode of Exit Stories, Neal Goffman—who is a seasoned sales, marketing and operations executive who specializes in startup success—joined our host Kevin Mosley. Goffman served as the Chief Operating Officer at Vanguard Software, a global provider of cloud-based integrated business planning solutions, from 2016 and during the company's acquisition by Wolters Kluwer for $110M. Goffman deta...

Welcome to season three! In this episode, host Kevin Mosley talks with entrepreneur Brian Reale, who has more than 15 years of experience building tech companies. He co-founded and runs Durham-based ProcessMaker, one of the world's leading Open Source BPM & Workflow Software Suites. It is now available in 17 different languages and has been downloaded more than 1 million times. In February 202...

Tune in to season 3 of Exit Stories this Tuesday, Sept. 13.

Chaz Felix, co-founder and COO of Bronto Software, joins host Kevin Mosley—who is a former Bronto employee. Chaz goes into detail about Bronto's bootstrapped story from 2002 to 2015. He talks about how his mindset shifted from scrappy startup to a scaling organization, and how all that work led to an eventual exit to publicly traded NetSuite in 2015 for $200M. This is part II of a 2-part episode.

Chaz Felix, co-founder and COO of Bronto Software, joins host Kevin Mosley—who is a former Bronto employee. Chaz goes into detail about Bronto's bootstrapped story from 2002 to 2015. He talks about how his mindset shifted from the scrappy startup to a scaling organization, and how all that work led to an eventual exit to publicly traded NetSuite in 2015 for $200M. This is Part I of a 2-part episod...

Host Kevin Mosley interviews Tyson Nargassans, founder and CEO of Saylent Technologies. They talk about his entrepreneurial journey, from taking a leap of faith alongside his wife to fundraising right before the 2008 Recession to the twists and turns that led to an exit during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Host Kevin Mosley, along with guest co-host Paolo DiVincenzo, interview serial entrepreneur James Avery, founder and CEO of Kevel. The theme of today's episode is "Base Hits," the smaller exits that build experience and confidence before leading to bigger success later on.