The Capital Stack

Today, David is talking to Neal Bloom. Neal Bloom is the CEO of Rising Tide Partners , a communications firm, and the co-founder & Managing Director of Interlock Capital , a venture investment firm. He is Chair Emeritus of Startup San Diego. Neal graduated with an undergraduate engineering degree from UCSD and went to work on NASA's Space Shuttle program, launching astronauts to the Space Stat...

Today, David is talking to Jacob Findlay.  Jacob Findlay is the Co-founder of Fullbay. Five years ago, he made the leap from healthcare to truck repair. He wanted to take the best ideas from the electronic medical records world and apply them to heavy-duty repair. In other words, build a medical record for trucks. At the time, Jacob was in the Director of Finance role for a wildly successful...

Today, David is speaking with John Francis. John Francis brings his experiences as an operator and institutional venture investor. John Francis with Clay Gordon started Stout Street Capital in 2017. As General Partner, he focuses on investment opportunities in the IT software serving sectors such as Construction, Government, Energy, Cleantech, Media, Advertising, HR, Healthcare, and Cloud services...

Today, David is speaking with Cory Lee Berg.  Cory is a technology specialist and coach. He believes software teams with a clear vision and proper leadership can build excellent products while enjoying the journey. Described as a “pragmatic technologist with a rare ability to yield results and make engineers smile,” Cory has devoted his professional life to helping advance a vision where busi...

Today, David is speaking with Jess Randall. Jesse Randall is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sweater Ventures, a VC fund that gives access to venture capital to everyone, regardless of your wealth or accreditation status. Sweater just raised $15M Series Seed earlier this year in order to build the technology to put an investment team in the palm of your hands via a mobile app where you can keep up to da...

Today, David is speaking with Jack Freeman. Jack has worked with growth-stage technology businesses his whole career and has been a partner to nearly twenty portfolio companies at PeakSpan. He currently leads Payments, Supply Chain, and E-Commerce logistics. Prior to joining PeakSpan, Jack worked for Stackpop, an early-stage startup where he helped build out a SaaS-based cost management platform t...

Today, David is speaking with John Mizzi. John is the co-founder and CEO of Vero Technologies. He was previously the COO of Bond. One, a capital markets technology platform, focused on streamlining settlement and reconciliation functions for asset servicers (Corporate Trustees and Administrators) in the debt capital markets. As an entrepreneur-in-residence for Danish software company, cVation, he...

Today, David is speaking with Ryan Edwards. Ryan Edwards has 20 years of financial experience across large and small banking institutions. He has a 14-year history of lending to emerging technology companies through his time at both Silicon Valley Bank and Comerica. He has worked with hundreds of borrowers over the years and has extensive experience in venture debt, working capital finance, specia...

Today, David is speaking with Gabe Cooper. Gabe Cooper is the Founder and CEO of Virtuous, a Responsive Fundraising Platform helping charities increase generosity and do more good. Gabe has a passion for creating market-defining software and helping nonprofits reimagine generosity. Gabe frequently writes and speaks about empowering nonprofits to grow generosity using technology. In 2020, he wrote...

Today, David is speaking with Brian Parks. Brian is the Founder and CEO of Bigfoot Capital. Prior to starting Bigfoot, Brian was on the executive team at P2Binvestor, a working capital-focused marketplace lender. Brian was the Founder and CEO of Brandfolder, an enterprise SaaS digital asset management company (acquired), General Manager at Galvanize, one of the first co-working and coding Bootcamp...

Today, David is speaking with Bill Binch.  Bill, a veteran technology leader with nearly three decades of global sales and go-to-market experience, is an operating partner based in Battery’s San Francisco office. He serves as a coach and mentor for sales executives and CEOs in Battery’s portfolio, helping software companies scale through various stages of growth, effectively expand overseas a...

Today, David is speaking with Taylor Cavanah. Taylor Cavanah founder and CEO of PetDesk.  PetDesk is engaging pet parents in their pet’s health by building deeper relationships with their pet care providers. The company is the leading provider of client communication and is currently being used within 3,500 vet clinics and has over 3M app users.   Taylor began his technical career a...

Today, David is speaking with Justin Gray. Justin Gray is a serial entrepreneur who has made a career of launching successful companies and scaling them, with successful exits of over 250MM. After joining the Shift Paradigm family as a result of the LeadMD acquisition in early 2021, Justin slotted into a role near and dear to his heart, helming the go-to-market team where he manages Sales, Marketi...

Today, David is speaking with Rei Carvalho. Rei Carvalho is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Wealth.  Wealth is the first comprehensive estate planning platform that provides a holistic view of all your assets, visualized and securely stored in one place. With robust asset aggregation technology, sophisticated APIs, and bank-level encryption, our platform makes estate planning easy and a...

Today, David is speaking with Rob Pakalski. Rob is co-founder and CEO of Datum – a venture-backed early-stage startup aiming to be the nucleus of the world’s supply chain. Rob spent the first ~4 years of his career at SpaceX, leading supply chain efforts for various products, including the spacesuit, Falcon Heavy thrust structure, and Dragon Spacecraft structural components. After SpaceX, Rob led...

Today, David is speaking with Zach Ferres. Zach is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive with a passion for building startups and the entrepreneurial communities around them. Zach built and sold his first technology company at the age of 24 and was recognized as one of the Top 33 Student Entrepreneurs in the World by the Kauffman Foundation and Entrepreneurs Organization at the Global Stu...

Today, David is speaking with Danny Loschavio. Danny is a serial entrepreneur who is passionate about marketing. His latest exit was a real estate SaaS company he bootstrapped to $30M ARR. He’s managed over $100M in ad spend and over 200M people in the US have clicked at least one of his ads. His latest venture, Klay Brands, takes a startup studio approach to eCommerce. What You’ll Learn: Importan...

Today, David is speaking with Bogdan Constantin, founder and CEO of Voxie, the leading conversational text marketing and automation platform for innovative retail brands. Voxie is deployed across thousands of locations nationwide to help automate everything from driving repeat purchases from dormant customers to qualifying candidates who applied online within seconds. Voxie averaged a 15x monthly...

Tim Hargis is a serial entrepreneur and lover of all things startup. He was featured among the top 35 Entrepreneurs under 35 by Arizona Republic . He has actively served as a mentor and advisor for many startup companies while supporting young innovators and entrepreneurs through SkySong, ASU’s Scottsdale Innovation Center.  After the sale of his precious metals franchise company, Tim joined...

Ryan Collins joined Noro Mosley Partners (NMP) as a Vice President in August 2018. He supports the firm’s investments in healthcare companies. Ryan currently serves on the board of Medix infusion, and serves as a board observer for Cariloop, findhelp and Upward Health. Prior to joining NMP, Ryan served as a Private Equity Associate at the Riverside Company, a global private equity firm with $7 bil...

John Waupsh is co-founder and CEO of Nerve. Nerve is the creator’s banking app with FDIC-insured business debt, savings, and other money-management tools designed for their business challenges. Nerve also offers public APIs, that, among other benefits, enable low-cost and instant payments for companies serving the creator economy.  Prior to founding Nerve, John spent 15 years leading product...

With over 25 years of experience in private equity, operations, management consulting, and investment banking, Jerry Pence of Balanced Capital Partners, has vast experience and a proven track-record for delivering returns to shareholders. He has acquired 12 companies with revenues totaling $1.6 billion, $137 million of deployed equity, resulting in over $1.1 billion in equity returned or an 8.4x c...

David Paul, founder of DWP Capital, is speaking with Sammy Abudullah, managing partner of Blossom Street Ventures.  Sammy refers to his company as an anti-VC (venture capitalist). He has employed $39 million in venture capital in over 25 companies within 8 funds. Sammy Abudullah explains he does not operate like a traditional VC. He gets to a “no” within a phone call instead of taking weeks a...

Today, David is speaking with Daniel Graff-Radford, the CEO of Allbound.  He’s sharing how he transitioned from a software executive to a non-founder CEO and fast tracked the company’s success.  Allbound is now one of the fastest growing companies in market technology and leads in the channel technology market. Daniel says the first thing he started with was product.  He says you ha...

Aashay Sanghvi is a Principal at Haystack, an early stage venture capital firm. Haystack is an early investor in companies like Instacart, DoorDash, Figma, Carta, and many more. Aashay joined Haystack out of undergrad at Harvard and has helped spearhead the fund’s investments in companies like Vectorized, Buf, and Higo. Aashay is currently based in New York City.  Aashay first got interested...