Growth Investor with GrowthCap‘s RJ Lumba

In this episode we chat with Angela Ceresnie, the CEO of Climb, which is an innovative student lending platform that makes career creation and transformation more accessible, affordable, and accountable.  The company is driven by a mission to empower individuals to unlock their career potential – no matter what their credit profile. Angela first joined Climb as the Chief Operating Officer in 2016 and quickly helped shape the operations, culture, and future of Climb, earning her the role of CEO in 2018. Prior to Climb, she co-founded and was COO/CFO of Orchard Platform — a provider of software and data products offered to institutional investors to purchase loans from marketplace lenders.  Orchard was acquired by Kabbage. Earlier in her career, Angela spent nine years running credit risk analytics teams at American Express and Citibank. We hope you enjoy the show.

In this episode we chat with Amr Kronfol, a Managing Director at Warburg Pincus, one of the most well-known private equity institutions in the world.  Founded in 1966, Warburg Pincus has raised 20 private equity funds, which have invested more than $97 billion in over 960 companies in more than 40 countries.  Amr makes growth investments at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and consumer/retail.  We chat about what he looks for in a CEO, the value that Warburg provides to its portfolio companies, and the areas he is most focused on in the healthcare sector. We hope you enjoy the show.  

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 Greg Marsh, the CEO and Founder of KeyMe, which has disrupted the locksmith industry becoming the nation's most trusted 24-hour emergency locksmith.  The company also has a network of self-service key duplication kiosks located in thousands of retail locations across the country.   Greg shares his insights into the evolution of KeyMe, his entrepreneurial journey and the massive potential that lies ahead for the company.    KeyMe is growing rapidly and has raised over $150M from top-tier investors including Battery Ventures, BlackRock, Brentwood, Comcast Ventures and others. We hope you enjoy the show.

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.