Growth Investor with GrowthCap‘s RJ Lumba

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 Gina Bianchini, the CEO and Co-Founder of Mighty Networks, which is a SaaS platform for creators and brands to start and grow communities. Gina shares her insights into the mission of Mighty Networks, the value of good investors and her entrepreneurial journey. The company is backed by Owl Ventures, Intel Capital, Sierra Wasatch Capital and others. We hope you enjoy the show.

Those working in financial markets see what’s coming, it’s the democratization of private investing.  Higher return opportunities in private equity are currently only available to sophisticated institutional and quasi-institutional investors, but that’s changing. Alex Robinson founded Juniper Square in 2014, to transform private equity with innovative software and solutions.  Today, the company is trusted by over 1,200 GPs to manage more than 200,000 investors and $1.5 trillion in assets.  Juniper Square has quickly become the leading provider of investment management solutions for commercial real estate, the company’s entry point into private equity. Alex shares with us his insights on real estate private equity and how his company offers an elegant solution to a once complicated problem.  Juniper Square has raised over $100 million and is backed by Redpoint, Ribbit Capital and Felicis Ventures. We hope you enjoy the show.

Mike Teti never planned on becoming an Olympian, never mind becoming one of the most dominant athletes and coaches U.S. rowing has ever seen.  His story, in many ways, exemplifies an American dream.  From humble beginnings in the city of Philadelphia, Mike took up rowing, a then unknown sport to him, through a friend’s suggestion.   It turned out that Mike had a real knack for rowing and through consistent hard work and gradual improvement he eventually found himself competing at national and international stages.  Mike never had visions of grandeur, he simply wanted to get better.  That simple philosophy took him to the pinnacle of success in a sport well-known for being one of the most grueling to excel in.   For nearly four decades, he led U.S. rowing and brought that community great success and great pride. Yet what’s most important to Mike Teti is not what he has achieved; it’s about the experience of being part of a team and helping that team build strength and character and ultimately win.   We hope you enjoy the show.

The war on talent did not really happen until now, the current year 2021, when millions of people left the labor force.  Now, more than ever in American history, companies are having to figure out how to effectively retain their top performers. Enter ClearCompany, the fastest-growing talent management system, which focuses on the specific problem of talent engagement and retention.  We chat with the company’s CEO Andre Lavoie, an entrepreneur and executive with deep experience building and scaling businesses.   He shares his keen insights on the talent market, how ClearCompany is different from other HR solutions, and the value of his capital partners, among other insights.  We hope you enjoy the show.  

Nigel Verdon is a three time FinTech founder - in 1996, he founded Evolution (now part of BAE Systems), in 2007, he started Currency Cloud, and in 2016, he began building his latest venture - Railsbank. Railsbank is a global Banking as a Service (BaaS) business that enables any company or brand to become a FinTech. The Railsbank platform enables marketers, product managers, developers, CEOs and founders to prototype, launch and scale financial products super fast through using an open finance platform, operations, regulatory licensing and rich set of simple APIs. Railsbank has raised over $120 million from leading investors including Anthos and Middlegame Ventures. We hope you enjoy the show.

In this episode we chat with Peter Brodsky, Co-Founder and CEO of Hyperscience, a company which has transformed the way organizations ingest and parse data.   Peter shares with us his various insights on data technology, business and leadership.  He’s a cerebral CEO who has approached scaling in his own unique and effective way. We chat about the value of a great early investor, striving for an authentic culture and leadership style, and how perseverance is most often the secret to success. Hyperscience has raised over $190 million  from investors including Tiger Global, Bessemer Venture Partners, and FirstMark. We hope you enjoy the show.

In this episode we chat with Innovaccer Co-founder and CEO, Abhinav Shashank, who shares his insights on how he built a global company from scratch, the power of having access to India’s engineering talent, and how his investors have played a key role in helping the company scale.   Innovaccer simplifies complex data from all points of care.  It streamlines information helping healthcare organizations make better decisions based on key data insights and predictions. The company’s solutions have been deployed across more than 1,000 care settings in the U.S., enabling more than 37,000 providers to transform care delivery and work collaboratively with payers and life sciences companies. We hope you enjoy the show.

When you’ve been around the block as much as Dimitri has, you start to notice things. Dimitri is a three time entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of BigID, a company that provides a complete solution for businesses seeking to connect to and manage all of its data regardless of the form the data is in or where it resides. Dimitri shares with us what it truly means to Know Your Data (KYD), his focus on the sales organization, and the importance of commitment and engagement to company culture. BigID has raised nearly $250 million of funding. Its investors include Advent International, Tiger Global, and Bessemer Venture Partners, among others. We hope you enjoy the show.

When Dean Sysman discovered that companies had no way of tracking the devices on its network, he knew it was a big problem that needed to be solved. Dean founded Axonius to make comprehensive and efficient cybersecurity asset management a reality for businesses around the world. Today, Axonius is one of the fastest growing cybersecurity companies and to date he’s raised nearly $200 million. Dean shares with us his entrepreneurial path and vision, insights on the Axonius asset management platform, and his leadership philosophy centered on growth. We hope you enjoy the show.

In this episode we chat with the CEO of WebPT, Nancy Ham, whose clarity in leadership philosophy has served her well through many notable executive positions she’s held throughout her career. It’s her clarity and way of shining a light on key business levers that make her a CEO that some of today’s best investors seek to partner with. WebPT, the leading rehab therapy platform for enhancing patient care and fueling business growth, is currently backed by Warburg Pincus. We chat about the company’s maniacal focus on product and purpose, how private equity has helped her scale the company, the decision to go 100% remote, and who she thinks is the best CEO. Nancy also shares with us three valuable leadership insights: amnesty on the past, the ‘What’ vs the ‘So What’, and a relentless focus on the ‘Why’. We hope you enjoy the show.