Growth Investor with GrowthCap‘s RJ Lumba

In this episode we chat with Dr. Yu Xu, who has been building TigerGraph, a platform for advanced analytics and machine learning on connected data, for nearly a decade.   After being in stealth mode for several years, Yu emerged to attract not only some of the largest and most sophisticated corporate clients but also some of the biggest and best investors. He’s raised nearly $200 million in just a...

In this episode Dwolla CEO Brady Harris and I chat about the FinTech space and how Dwolla saves businesses a tremendous amount of money by lowering transaction fees.  We also chat about his experience working with private equity and venture capital investors and who he thinks is the smartest person in FinTech. I particularly liked his insights on leadership and today’s best CEO. Before joining Dwo...

In this episode, we chat with Mike Tuchen, the CEO of Onfido, which is the new standard for digital access. The company digitally proves a user’s real identity using artificial intelligence (AI), by verifying a photo ID and comparing it to the person’s facial biometrics. The company is backed by TPG Growth, Salesforce Ventures and other notable investors. Mike’s track record as a CEO is outstandin...

In this episode we chat with Myles Anderson, Founder and CEO of BrightLocal, a marketing technology company whose suite of local SEO tools are used by over 90,000 customers. Myles shares with us his keen insights on how he built this now 190 person company from scratch and with very limited capital. He’s been able to scale consistently and profitably each year and puts people first in his approach...

In this episode we chat with Bill Martin, who has a long track record as a successful entrepreneur and investor, with a particular focus on financial technology and software businesses. Bill is currently the Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Raging Capital Management, a private investment partnership primarily focused on public equities that he founded in 2006. Raging Capital Management is...

In this episode we chat with Aaron Klein, Co-founder and CEO of Riskalyze.  Riskalyze invented the Risk Number, which enables financial advisors to use data to construct portfolios most suitable for their clients risk profile.  Advisors, broker-dealers, RIAs and asset managers use the Riskalyze platform to create alignment between clients and portfolios, leverage sophisticated analytics to increas...

In this episode with chat with Rick Wilson, the CEO of Miva, a leading comprehensive ecommerce platform.  With over 25 years of executive-level experience, Rick has a unique vantage point on the business shift to ecommerce, asserting that business society is still very early in the transition to ecommerce, with only about 18% of retail transactions currently conducted online. With comprehensive so...

In this episode we speak with Zack Rosen, the CEO and co-founder of Pantheon. We chat about how Zach’s curiosity and early experiences at the intersection of society and technology eventually led to building the leading WebOps (Website Operations) platform - one that empowers marketing and development teams to take control of their websites, while giving them the agility to win in the dynamic worl...

In this episode we speak with Aircall co-founder and CEO Olivier Pailhes. After a career in strategy consulting with BCG and corporate development with multinational company ArcelorMittal, Olivier embarked on an entrepreneurial journey. He co-founded Aircall, which was built to make phone systems as easy to manage as any other business workflow. He wanted to make it accessible, transparent, and co...

In this episode we speak with Mike Morini, a 30-year software veteran experienced in growing and scaling enterprise software companies. Mike is the CEO of WorkForce Software, a cloud-based labor management platform that empowers employees and managers to digitize time and labor processes, optimize demand-driven scheduling, simplify absence management and enable strategic business insight. When app...

In this episode, we chat with Dr. Vipin Garg, the President and CEO of Altimmune, a biotech company pioneering the development of intranasal vaccines and therapeutics, including ones that can prevent the transmission of and treat COVID. He has more than three decades of experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries with a successful track record building and leading notable private...

In this episode, we speak with Sunil Thomas, the CEO and cofounder of CleverTap, which is the leading customer engagement and retention platform that helps brands maximize user lifetime value. Consumer brands around the world representing over 8,000 apps—including Vodafone, Star, Sony, Discovery, Fandango LATAM, Carousell, and Gojek—trust CleverTap to help them improve user engagement and retentio...

When it comes to growth equity, Jon Korngold, Global Head of Blackstone Growth, is as good as it gets. Perhaps he can be considered one of the few who sets today’s bar in the asset class. His rapid rise began at Goldman Sachs and General Atlantic, but maybe it began even earlier, maybe it began with a piece of advice his father gave him when he was growing up. Blackstone recently announced the fin...

At over $100 million in annual recurring revenue, Amplitude has consistently scaled each year since its founding in 2012. The Company provides a product intelligence platform that enables businesses to optimize digital product innovation. It serves over 30,000 teams at companies like Walmart, Ford, Inbev, Atlassian, Microsoft, Twitter, Hubspot, and Procter & Gamble. Amplitude’s cerebral yet hi...

I’ve spoken to hundreds of private equity investors over the years, and after spending time with Nic, you can’t help but come away feeling that he would make for a great capital partner. Nic Humphries is the Senior Partner and Executive Chairman of Hg and Head of the Saturn fund. Hg, the leading european private equity firm focused on software and services, has over $30 billion under management an...

In this episode, we chat with Peter Holt, the CEO of The Joint Chiropractic, the largest franchised network of Chiropractic clinics in the world with approximately 600 clinics system wide. The Joint is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ based in Scottsdale, AZ. Previously, Peter was President and Chief Executive Officer for Tasti D-Lite where he transformed the NYC based licensed outlets into a c...

In this episode, we chat with Matthew Safaii, the Founder and Managing Partner of Arrowroot Capital Management, a growth equity firm based in Marina Del Ray, California. The firm invests in growing and healthy, recurring revenue, software-as-a-service and internet-based businesses. Recently, Matthew launched Arrowroot Acquisition, a $250 million SPAC which focuses on enterprise software. Matthew w...

In this episode, we chat with Dr. Ben Maruthappu, the Co-Founder and CEO at Cera, which is a technology-enabled home care provider using digital and data to improve elderly care services. Cera was launched in November 2016 and since then has grown to over $160 million in revenues and is EBITDA positive. The company now has 5,000+ employees, with 50 offices across the country, delivering ~30,000 ca...

Eliot Forster is the Chief Executive Officer of F-star Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing next-generation immunotherapies to transform the lives of patients with cancer.  To date, the company has built a comprehensive IP estate, with over 200 issued patents and more than 60 pending applications, many of which have blockbuster potential. In this convers...

In this episode, we chat with Rami Karjian, Co-Founder and CEO of Medically Home, an innovative tech-enabled clinical enterprise that is transforming the way hospital care is given globally.   Rami began his career with McKinsey & Company where he worked for over 13 years across multiple offices and rose to Partner.  Subsequently, he was the President of Flextronics, the largest global technology...

In this episode, we chat with Andrew Dudum, the founder and CEO of Hims & Hers, which is an online healthcare platform providing products and services to millennials and others. Hims & Hers recently became public through a SPAC transaction. It was acquired by Oaktree Acquisition Corp. in January of 2021, in a deal valuing the company at $1.6 billion. Today, just a few weeks later, the company’s ma...

In this episode, we chat with Peter Arrowsmith, a General Partner of JMI Equity and a Top 25 Software Investor of 2020. JMI is a leading growth equity firm focused on helping founders and management teams in scaling their software companies.  The firm is well equipped to do so given its long and focused track record in software, which goes all the way back to its founding and lead backer John Moor...

In this episode, we chat with Eric Partaker, a McKinsey consultant, executive and entrepreneur turned peak performance expert. After a life altering experience, Eric decided to refocus his priorities on the things that matter most and figured out a way to consistently and effectively execute on those priorities. In our conversation, we cover his insights into the power of identity, productivity st...

In this episode we chat with Kyle Griswold, a Partner of FTV Capital and a Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investor of 2020. FTV Capital is a growth equity investment firm that has raised nearly $4 billion since inception and has invested in 120 high-growth companies across enterprise technology and services, financial services, and payments and transaction processing. Kyle and I chat about some of the inv...

Welcome to the GrowthCap podcast where we chat with CEOs, investors, and other key industry leaders to uncover insights and strategies for accelerating growth and succeeding in business. I am your host RJ Lumba. In this episode we chat with Jan Arendtsz, a former corporate software professional turned entrepreneur. Unlike many of today’s startup founders, Jan took a more methodical approach to fou...