Great Entrepreneurs with RJ Lumba

In this episode, we speak with Jack Hooper, Co-Founder and CEO of Take Command Health, a Dallas-based SaaS company that helps employers reimburse employees for health insurance and empowers individuals to find coverage tailored to their needs. Jack spent six years as an analyst for the CIA and FBI, helping top officials unravel data to understand risk and opportunity. He twice received an innovati...

In this episode, we speak with Kristen Valdes, Founder and CEO of b.well Connected Health, a platform that empowers consumers by unifying their health data and tools to take control of their healthcare journeys. Kristen is an award-winning leader and acknowledged visionary in digital health. She has dedicated her career to creating inventive solutions that drive the industry toward a more consumer...

In this episode, we speak with Eli Ben-Joseph, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Regard, a leading clinical insights platform helping hundreds of hospitals across the country improve patient care by closing the clinical insights gap. The idea for Regard was born when Eli was a graduate student at Stanford, where he and his co-founders—Nate Wilson and Thomas Moulia—recognized the enormous p...

In this episode, we speak with Shyam Rajagopalan, Co-Founder and Technology Lead of Infinitus Systems, a company using voice AI agents to automate clinical and administrative tasks, easing the burden on healthcare staff and improving patient outcomes.  Shyam is a hands-on technology leader who works closely with his team on everything from coding to product design. His collaborative approach is ce...

In this episode, we speak with Jennifer Fleiss, Co-Founder and Board Member of Rent the Runway, an online clothing rental service that is changing the way people get dressed by offering access to high-end fashion at a fraction of the cost. Rent the Runway is disrupting the trillion-dollar fashion industry with its “Closet in the Cloud,” the world’s first and largest shared designer closet. Jennife...

In this episode, we speak with Mo Al Adham, Founder and CEO of Frec, a company transforming complex financial products that have traditionally only been available through wealth advisors, into automated, easy-to-use technology. Mo’s team has been funded by a long list of notable investors including Google, Meta, Brex, and others, with their biggest backer being Greylock. Frec’s goal is for custome...

In this episode, we speak with Matt Angle, the Founder and CEO of Paradromics, whose interface platform records brain activity at the highest possible resolution: the individual neuron. Paradromics’  technology aims to help millions with unmet medical needs suffering from paralysis and movement disorders to chronic pain, addiction, depression and other mental health conditions.  Its AI algorithms...

In this episode, we speak with Doug Brien, President of Roofstock and Co-Founder and CEO of Mynd.   Roofstock is building the world’s leading single-family real estate investment platform. It has surpassed $6 billion in transactions and continues to disrupt the industry, deploying technology and innovation to build a vibrant, data-rich service for real estate investing. Doug is a former profession...

In this episode, we speak with Jason Guss, Co-Founder and CEO of Octane, a financing platform assisting fast and confident powersports purchases by making financing as easy as cash and creating access through fair credit products. Under Jason’s leadership, Octane has raised both debt and equity amounting to approximately  $2.6 billion.  Prior to Octane, Jason worked at Capital One in Corporate Str...

In this episode, we speak with Ethan Thornton, Founder of Mach Industries, which is building the next-generation of defense systems.  Ethan dropped out of MIT at the age of 19 years old to found Mach Industries, which was soon backed by Sequoia’s Stephanie Zhan and Shaun Maguire and eventually Bedrock Capital’s founder Geoff Lewis. Ethan ran a wood and metal workshop in high school to make the ini...

In this episode, we speak with Jordan Taradash, Co-Founder and CEO of PeopleOne Health, which provides world-class healthcare that seamlessly blends treatment and prevention, leading to significant savings for employers and employees by keeping people healthier. Jordan oversees PeopleOne Health’s executive team, steering the company’s strategic vision, culture, and sales, as it advances as one of...

In this episode, we speak with Sam Li, Co-Founder and CEO of Thoropass, an information security compliance and audit solution that enables companies to get and stay compliant with infosec frameworks and privacy standards. Under Sam’s leadership, Thoropass has supplemented its core products with audit services, pentesting, and AI cybersecurity solutions. Before Thoropass, Sam was an EIR at Bain Cap...

In this episode, we speak with Michael Weisz, Founder and CEO of Yieldstreet , the leading private market investment platform helping people dive into alternative investing with confidence and ease. Founding the company in 2015, Michael’s team believed private market alternatives should be a fundamental part of investors’ portfolio. From real estate, venture capital, private equity, art, short ter...

In this episode, we speak with Guy Benjamin, Co-Founder and CEO of Healthee, a healthcare platform that makes it easier, faster, and more efficient to get care. Founded in 2021, Guy’s team believes everyone, everywhere, deserves access to high-quality affordable healthcare. The platform provides personalized, instant, and uncomplicated answers to coverage, treatment, and benefits questions, end-to...

In this episode, we speak with Eric Voogt, Founder and CEO of Proof, the world's first on-demand service-of-process platform that provides instant access to experienced servers and the ability to track a serve in real-time from a desktop computer or mobile device. Founded in 2017, Eric’s paralegal understood the issue of tirelessly calling process serving companies to see if they had availability,...

In this episode, we speak with Nelson Chu, Founder and CEO of Percent, which is unlocking private credit and providing unparalleled access through its modern private credit market, empowering investors, borrowers, and underwriters with innovative technology to increase the speed and frequency of transactions at a fraction of the cost. Founded in 2018, Percent’s platform is becoming the market stan...

In this episode, we speak with Ankit Gupta, CEO and Founder of Bicycle Health, a digital clinic to help people free themselves from opioid dependence. In 2017, after spending time in an orthopedic clinic to learn more about pain management and opioids, Ankit founded Bicycle Health to increase access to high-quality, integrated medical and behavioral healthcare for people with opioid use disorder....

In this episode, we speak with Kristian Ranta, CEO and Founder of Meru Health, an online holistic mental health provider. In 2016, Kristian founded Meru Health after losing family members to mental health struggles and seeing so many others struggle. From these experiences, he learned that access to mental health care was severely lacking and the available care often didn’t work. His team felt tha...

In this episode, we speak with Sean Duffy, the Co-Founder and CEO of Omada Health, a virtual-first healthcare provider that nurtures lifelong health, one day at a time. Since 2011, Sean and his team’s mission has been to inspire and enable people everywhere to live free of chronic disease. They do this by building digital health programs that are evidence-based, performance-priced, and designed to...

In this episode, we speak with David Bates, the Co-Founder and CEO of Linus Health, a digital health company focused on transforming brain health for people across the world. In 2019, David and his team of individuals with exceptional backgrounds in neuroscience, clinical care, artificial intelligence, and enterprise software, created a digital platform that enables a future where people can live...

In this episode, we speak with Karl Ulfers, the Co-Founder and CEO of DUOS, a technology-enabled service provider that connects people to the essential resources required to attain the highest level of health. After personal experiences with his grandparent, Karl realized that healthcare was simply not optimized for the complexities of aging. Founded in 2021, DUOS was created to form trusted relat...

In this episode, we speak with Stephen Sokoler, the Founder and CEO of Journey, the leading proactive mental health solution for modern companies. In 2015, Stephen founded Journey with the mission to help all people live happier, healthier, less stressed lives. Rooted in live group learning, peer support and proactive health, Journey provides the most engaging, cost-effective way to reduce turnove...

In this episode, we speak with Satyen Sangani, the Co-Founder and CEO of Alation, an enterprise software company, whose data catalog serves enterprises in organizing and consolidating their data. Nearly 600 global enterprises — including 40% of the Fortune 100 — rely on Alation to realize value from every data and AI initiative. Alation is backed by Thoma Bravo, Riverwood Capital, Salesforce Ventu...

In this episode, we speak with Daniel Faber, the Co-Founder and CEO of Orbit Fab, a company that envisions a thriving in-space market for products and services that support both existing space businesses and new industries like space tourism, manufacturing, and mining. Since 2018, Orbit Fab was founded to eliminate the single-use spacecraft paradigm with in-space refueling. The future for satellit...

In this episode. we speak with Jeremy Almond, the Founder and CEO of Paystand, whose software makes it possible to digitize receivables, automate processing, reduce time-to-cash, eliminate transaction fees, and enable new revenue. In 2013, Jeremy was on a mission to create a more open financial system, starting with B2B payments. Using blockchain and cloud technology, Paystand pioneered Payments-a...