Growth Capital Podcast

📊 Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 96 📊 What if the biggest risk in your next deal isn't the numbers on the page, but nobody being able to prove they're right? In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, host Justin Dixon sits down with Graeme Crawford, Founder & CEO of Crawford McMillan, a data consultancy that helps private equity firms move from "management-grade" data to "investor-gra...

🏗️ Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 95 🏗️ What if the biggest bottleneck in construction isn't the job site, it's everything that happens before anyone breaks ground? In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, host Justin Dixon sits down with Aurimas Sabulis, Founder & CEO of Dextall, a company redefining how prefabricated building exteriors are designed, engineered, and manufactured. Afte...

🧪 Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 94 🧪 What does it take to build a biotech company, sell it right before a crisis hits, and then find the motivation to start all over again? In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, host Justin Dixon sits down with Tero-Pekka Alastalo, Co-founder & CEO of Avenue Biosciences, a protein engineering company re-engineering therapies to make them cheaper a...

🏆 Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 93 🏆 What happens when a former pro triathlete decides the sport that shaped him still has an unsolved problem? In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, host Justin Dixon sits down with James Elvery, Co-founder & CEO of RaceRanger, the drafting-detection system now used across professional triathlon. James spent his twenties chasing an Olympic berth b...

⚙️ Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 92 ⚙️ What if AI's next breakthrough isn't writing better code, but finally understanding the code we already have? In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, host Justin Dixon sits down with Anand Kulkarni, Founder & CEO of CoreStory, an AI platform that reverse-engineers massive, undocumented codebases into plain-English specifications enterprises can...

📖 Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 91 📖 What happens to a family's wealth after they sell a business at exactly the right moment, and then decide they're not ready to stop building? In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, host Justin Dixon sits down with Brandon Ball, Partner & CFO at Blue Diamond Capital, a single-family office based in Provo, Utah. Blue Diamond traces its roots back...

🤝 Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 90 🤝 What happens when AI agents stop being tools in your security stack and start acting like coworkers on your SOC team? In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, host Justin Dixon sits down with Dov Yoran, Co-Founder and CEO of Command Zero, an autonomous, AI-assisted SOC investigation platform built for complex enterprise environments, to unpack exactl...

🛡️ Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 89 🛡️ What if your biggest AI risk isn't a hacker, but an employee who's just trying to get their job done faster? In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, Justin Dixon sits down with Arti Raman, Founder & CEO of Portal26. This AI adoption management platform helps enterprises discover, secure, and get real value from the AI already running through the...

🔍 Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 88 🔍 What happens when the traffic your business built for years starts flowing into an AI answer instead of your website? In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, Justin Dixon sits down with Thomas Howell, Co-founder & CEO of FancyAI, a generative engine optimization (GEO) company based in Austin, Texas. After spending over a decade running a search...

🌱 Growth Capital Podcast - Episode 87 🌱 What if the goal isn't to sell your business, but to make it worth enough that selling is only one of your options? In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, Justin Dixon sits down with Matt Andersen, President & CEO of Westlake Securities. Over nearly three decades in finance, Matt has advised on more than $5.7 billion in debt, securities, and M&...

📦 Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 86 📦 What if the biggest opportunity for AI isn't replacing people, but helping them make better decisions? In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, Justin Dixon sits down with Chris Condon, Founder & CEO of Aircon, to explore how AI is transforming one of the world's most complex industries: freight forwarding. After spending decades in logistics—fro...

🔓 Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 85 🔓 What happens after building one of the world's most recognizable technology companies? In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, host Justin Dixon sits down with Paul Allen, Founder & CEO of SOAR.com, to discuss why he believes artificial intelligence represents an even greater opportunity than the internet revolution. Rather than focusing on AI r...

🧱 Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 84 🧱 Does every startup need to become a billion-dollar unicorn? In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, host Justin Dixon sits down with Ethan Mayers, Venture Partner at Fairbridge, to challenge one of the biggest assumptions in entrepreneurship—that venture capital is the only path to building a successful company. Drawing on his experience as a founde...

🥩 Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 83 🥩 What if the future of meat isn't replacing it, but making it better? In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, Justin Dixon sits down with Paul Shapiro, Co-founder & CEO of The Better Meat Co., a food technology company pioneering the use of mycelium to create healthier, more sustainable, and more affordable meat products. After spending years as...

⚕️ Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 82 ⚕️ What happens when you build a healthcare company with AI at its core from day one? In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, Justin Dixon sits down with Samuel Searcy, Co-founder and CEO of ClinTrial Research, a rapidly growing network of clinical trial sites helping pharmaceutical companies bring new therapies to market. Before building ClinTrial Res...

✍️ Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 81 ✍️ What if the biggest revenue problem in your business isn't winning customers—it's getting paid? In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, Justin Dixon sits down with Marty Ringlein, Co-founder & CEO of Agree.com and General Partner at Adventure Fund, to discuss how AI is transforming the entire contract-to-cash process. Marty shares his journey fr...

👮 Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 80 👮 What happens when artificial intelligence, biometric data, and human performance come together to support the people who run toward danger? In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, Justin Dixon sits down with Sean Bair, Co-founder & CEO of SWORN.ai, to discuss how technology is helping police officers, firefighters, and other first responders bet...

♟️ Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 79 ♟️ What separates businesses that survive from businesses that scale? In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, host Justin Dixon sits down with John Smalley, Founder & Managing Partner of J Smalley Group, a multi-company holding group built around a disciplined investment and operating framework focused on long-term growth. From scaling businesses a...

🌱 Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 78 🌱 What if the future of startup funding isn’t about chasing unicorns, but building stronger local economies? In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, Justin Dixon sits down with Jeffrey Kaplan, Director of Venture Asheville and CEO of Optimist Ventures, to discuss how venture philanthropy is creating a new capital model for underserved founders and reg...

🐾 Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 77 🐾 What happens when a founder combines marketplace thinking, AI, and a mission-driven problem worth solving? In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, host Justin Dixon sits down with Chloe Fabiani, Founder & CEO of Paaw, the platform building the operating system for modern pet ownership. After launching Paaw in France and expanding into the U.S.,...

🛠️ Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 76 🛠️ What if the best way to evaluate a founder isn’t a pitch deck, but working side by side with them? In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, Justin Dixon sits down with Mike Ma, Founder & Managing Partner of Sidecut Ventures, to unpack a radically different approach to early-stage investing—one built on execution, coachability, and real-world perf...

🩺 Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 75 🩺 What if one of the biggest opportunities in healthcare isn’t innovation—but fixing what’s already broken? In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, Justin Dixon sits down with Dean Margolis, Co-Founder & CEO of Red Sky Health, to unpack a massive inefficiency hiding in plain sight: healthcare claim denials. With billions of dollars lost each year...

🎬 Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 74 🎬 What happens after a successful exit? For many founders, it’s not retirement—it’s reinvention. In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, Justin Dixon sits down with Jason Kiesel, Co-founder & CEO of Packed House Pictures, to explore what comes after building, scaling, and exiting a company—twice. Jason shares how he went from GovTech entrepreneur...

🏠 Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 73 🏠 What if the future of property management isn’t better software, but software that actually runs your business? In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, host Justin Dixon sits down with Shahar Goldboim, Co-Founder & CEO of Boom, to unpack how short-term rental businesses are evolving from fragmented, manual operations into fully integrated, AI-dr...

🤝 Growth Capital Podcast — Episode 72 🤝 In this episode of the Growth Capital Podcast, Justin Dixon sits down with Joseph Dalton, Founder & Managing Partner of Arsenal Enterprise Capital, to unpack one of the most misunderstood dynamics in private equity: investing in relationship-driven businesses. From navigating founder transitions to sourcing proprietary deal flow, Joseph shares how his...