Afleveringen
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In this episode, we speak with the Co-Founder and CEO of Armada, Dan Wright. Armada is the worldâs first full-stack edge computing platform, revolutionizing connectivity, compute, and AI solutions.
Armada enables companies to rapidly deploy, operate and monitor a complete modular data center to the remote corners of the world.
Before Armada, Dan was the CEO of DataRobot and COO of AppDynamics. He is invested in the future of technology as an investor, advisor, and board member for various visionary startups, including Abnormal Security, Avi Networks (acquired by VMware), and Embrace.
Dan is a Board Member of JDRF. To learn more about this organization click here.
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In this episode, we speak with Mitchell Green, the Founder and Managing Partner at Lead Edge Capital, a growth equity firm with over $5 billion in assets under management.
Investing in software, internet, and tech-enabled services businesses globally, the firm specializes in helping growth-stage companies scale. Lead Edge Capital has an interesting model that combines elements of private equity, growth, and an active network of over 700 limited partners to build a very powerful moat.
Prior to founding Lead Edge, Mitchell was on the investment teams at Eastern Advisors and Bessemer Venture Partners. Mitchell is formerly a nationally ranked alpine ski racer.
Mitchell is one of the members of the Board of U.S. Ski & Snowboard. To learn more about this organization click here.
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In this episode, we speak with Sami Inkinen, the Founder and CEO of Virta Health. Virta is an online specialty medical clinic that reverses type 2 diabetes safely and sustainably, without the risks, costs, or side effects of medications or surgery.
Created in 2014, Virtaâs innovations in nutritional biochemistry, data science, digital tools, and clinical expertise are shifting the diabetes treatment paradigm from management to reversal.
Before Virta, Sami was a Co-Founder of the leading online real estate marketplace Trulia. He also previously worked for top companies including Microsoft, McKinsey, and Nokia.
Sami is also an endurance athlete. Sami and his wife rowed from California to Hawaiiâ2,750 miles, completely unsupported. He is also a triathlon age group world champion and 8 hour 24 minute Ironman with seven Hawaii Ironman finishes.
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In this episode, we speak with Andrew Adams, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Oak HC/FT, one of the leading growth investment firms with $5.3 billion in assets under management.
Founded in 2014, the firm invests in companies driving transformation in healthcare and fintech, two uniquely complementary and high-growth sectors. With deep domain expertise and strategic resources, the firm partners with leading entrepreneurs at every stage, from seed to growth, to build businesses that make a measurable, lasting impact on these industries.
Before founding Oak HC/FT, Andrew spent 15 years, primarily at Oak Investment Partners, investing in early and growth stage companies. During the over 25 years Andrew has spent investing in leading healthcare companies, he has had 35 exits, including 6 IPOs.
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In this episode, we speak with David Lazovsky, the Co-Founder and CEO of Celestial AI. Founded in 2020, Celestial AI is the creator of the Photonic Fabricâą technology platform, a pioneering optical compute and memory fabric solution for supercharging AI infrastructure.
David leads the company in using his in-depth knowledge of semiconductors, data/telecommunications, photonics, clean energy industries, and extensive international business experience.
His impressive career background includes being an Executive Chairman of POET Technologies, Venture Partner at Khosla Ventures, and founder of Intermolecular.
David supports Canary Foundation. To learn more about this organization click here.
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In this episode, we speak with Max de Groen and Scott Kirk, Partners at Bain Capital, one of the worldâs leading private investment firms with approximately $185 billion in AUM. The firm pioneered the value-added approach to investing and has been at the forefront of growth investing since its founding in 1984.
Max joined Bain Capital in 2011. He is a Partner on the North American Private Equity team. He focuses on supporting the growth of cutting-edge cybersecurity, digital infrastructure, and horizontal application businesses.
Scott joined Bain Capital in 2019 and is a Partner on the Bain Capital Tech Opportunities team. He co-leads the teamâs investments across application software and information services, most notably focusing on vertical SaaS, SMB platforms and B2B marketplace investments. Previously, Scott was a senior investment professional with TCV.
Max and Scott were recognized by GrowthCap as Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investors of 2023.
Max supports YMCA. To learn more about this organization click here.
Scott supports Make-A-Wish Foundation of America. To learn more about this organization click here.
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In this episode, we speak with the Founder and CEO of Masterworks, Scott Lynn. Specializing in the art investment market, Masterworks securitizes blue-chip artworks between $1-20 million per painting and sells shares to over 200,000 investors via their site.
Blue-chip art has historically retained its value and appreciated in times of high inflation. Masterworks was founded in 2017 by Scott to make the art market more accessible to investors.
Scott is an early Internet entrepreneur with a focus on online advertising, martech, and fintech. Over the past 15+ years, heâs founded, acquired, sold, or remained a controlling shareholder in over a dozen tech companies. Prior to Masterworks, Scott founded Payability, V2 Ventures, and Virtumundo.
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In this episode, we speak with Jeeta Bandopadhyay, Co-founder and COO of Tookitaki.
The company operates in the financial crime prevention space and is a pioneer of the concept of combating financial crime through a community-based platform.
This collective effort, known as the Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) ecosystem, enables financial institutions to acquire knowledge, collaborate, and utilize typologies to counter emerging financial crime patterns, thereby ensuring their own safety and security.
Tookitaki was recognized as one of the Top 100 Financial Technology Companies of 2023 by the Financial Technology Report.
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In this episode, we speak with Jake Heller, Head of Tech Growth Equity Americas of KKR.
Prior to joining KKR in 2019, Jake was at Spectrum Equity, where he focused on growth investments in software, information services and internet businesses. He started his growth equity career at Symmetric Capital and also spent time as a strategic consultant at the Parthenon Group in their global private equity practice.
Jake served four years as a commissioned officer in the United States Navy and finished his career in Naval Special Warfare as the Commander of a high-speed assault boat team. He is a decorated veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom including the Bronze Star with distinction for Valor in Combat.
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Jake supports NAVY SEAL Foundation. To learn more about this organization click here.
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In this episode, we speak with Ross Devor, a Partner at Thoma Bravo, which is one of the largest software investors in the world with approximately $138 billion in assets under management.
Ross co-heads Thoma Bravoâs growth equity platform, a dedicated fund focused on making minority investments in high growth software and technology companies. He leads the teamâs close collaboration with founders and management teams to implement world-class operating principles and help realize their visions and growth potential.
Ross was recognized by GrowthCap as one of the Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investors of 2023.
Ross supports Boys and Girls Club of Miami-Dade and Feeding South Florida.
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In this episode, we speak with Bill Gibson, CEO of Deposco, a provider of cloud-based supply chain applications for retailers, distributors, 3PLs and brand companies.
Deposcoâs Bright Suite of omnichannel fulfillment supply chain applications allows fast-growing companies to rapidly scale their warehouse management and order management operations, so they can see what inventory theyâve got, where it is, and where to position it to fulfill demand.
Bill first got his start in 1993 as an account executive at Manugistics. From there, he went on to Grotech Ventures and then became a Managing Partner at The Albermarle Group.
Bill was recognized as one of the Top 50 SaaS CEOs of 2023 by The Software Report.
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In this episode, we speak with Garrett Stephen, Managing Director, Co-Head of Origination & Structuring at First Eagle Alternative Credit, a credit-focused investment manager with $21 billion of assets under management, $5.7 billion of which is invested through its direct lending platform focused on private equity-backed U.S. middle market companies across various industries.
Garrett became part of First Eagle in 2020 upon the firmâs acquisition of THL Credit, which he had joined in 2012. Previously, he worked in the restructuring group of Lazardâs investment banking division. Before that, he specialized in corporate turnarounds and restructurings across a variety of industries at CDG Group, a middle-market restructuring firm.
First Eagle Alternative Credit was recognized as one of the Top Private Debt Firms of 2023 by GrowthCap.
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In this episode, we speak with Tianyi Jiang (TJ), CEO and Co-Founder of AvePoint, an independent software vendor of SaaS solutions to migrate, manage and protect data.
More than 17,000 customers trust AvePointâs Confidence Platform to optimize their SaaS operations and secure collaboration. AvePointâs SaaS solutions are also available to managed service providers via more than 100 cloud marketplaces.
TJ co-founded AvePoint in 2001 and has served as the companyâs CEO since 2005. TJ was recently named a Top 50 SaaS CEO of 2023 by The Software Report.
TJ launched MaivenPoint, an edtech company that enables educators, students and organizations to create engaging learning experiences to meet their unique, evolving needs.
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In this episode, we speak with Rashmi Gopinath of B Capital, a multi-stage global investment firm that partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs to shape the future through technology. With $6+ billion in assets under management across multiple funds, the firm focuses on seed to late-stage venture growth investments, primarily in the enterprise, financial technology and healthcare sectors.
Rashmi is a General Partner and Head of Enterprise Investing at the firm. She focuses on enterprise software investments in cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, devops, and artificial intelligence and machine learning. She has over two decades of experience investing and operating in enterprise technologies and was recognized as one of the Top Software Investors of 2023 by GrowthCap.
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In this episode, we speak with Bill Lucchini, CEO of Nextech, the complete healthcare technology solution for specialty providers. The company services more than 16,000 physicians and over 60,000 office staff members in the clinical specialties of Dermatology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Plastic Surgery, and Med Spa.
Billâs focus is on expanding the company's industry-leading product suite into a true end-to-end ecosystem designed specifically for specialty practices. He has spent his entire career in technology and software, most recently serving as CEO of Dealer-FX Group. Prior to that, he was with Sophos, OnForce and Intuit.
Nextech was recognized as one of the Top 100 Healthcare Technology Companies of 2023 by The Healthcare Technology Report.
Bill supports Tunnel to Towers Foundation. To learn more about this organization click here.
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In this episode, we speak with Nader Naini, Managing Partner of Frazier Healthcare Partners. Nader joined the firm in 1991 and has served on Frazierâs Management Committee, Investment Committee, and led its Growth Buyout practice since 1995. Under his leadership, the Growth Buyout team has scaled from an initial team of four to over sixty and raised over $5 billion AUM from institutional limited partners globally.
During his over three-decade tenure with the firm, he has been responsible for and served on the Boards of numerous successful investments including Aspen Education Group, CHG Healthcare, Priority Solutions International, Bravo Health, Laboratory Supply Company, Pentec Health, Solis Mammography, DSI Renal, Northfield Medical, and United Digestive. He currently serves on the Boards of Elevate Patient Financial Solutions, Accuity Delivery Systems, and Effective School Solutions.
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In this episode, we speak with Taylor Rhodes, CEO of Applied Systems, the leading global provider of cloud-based software that powers the business of insurance. Recognized as a pioneer in insurance automation and an innovation leader, Applied is the worldâs largest provider of agency and brokerage management systems.
Taylor joined Applied in 2019 after serving as Chief Executive Officer of SMS Assist, the leading cloud-based software platform for multi-site property management. Previously, he was CEO of Rackspace, where he led the companyâs growth from a cloud pioneer to an industry leader with more than two billion dollars in revenue.
Taylor was recognized as one of the Top 50 SaaS CEOs of 2023 by The Software Report.
Taylor supports World Vision. To learn more about this organization click here.
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In this episode we speak with Alan Cline, Hgâs Head of North America, a Partner and a member of Hgâs Senior Leadership Team. He leads the firmâs activity across the USA and Canada.
Alan has a long and impressive track record across leadership, tech investing and operations, having built the Foundation Fund within Vista Equity, following hands on experience as a technology entrepreneur. He was previously Senior Managing Director, Fund Co-Head at Vista.
Hg has over 400 employees across London, Munich, New York, Paris and San Francisco, and a current portfolio of around 52 businesses, worth approximately $135 billion in aggregate enterprise value.
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In this episode, we speak with David Ratner, CEO of HYAS, a cybersecurity company leading the charge in the war against attacks of all kinds, including ransomware, supply-chain attacks, phishing, and trojans.
Davidâs career spans various areas of software and technology, from writing code for some of the first and largest mobile and messaging systems to scaling, growing, and exiting multiple venture-backed, private-equity-owned, and public software companies.
Before joining HYAS, David was the CEO at Realm and CEO and President at Openwave Messaging. He earned his PhD and MS in computer science at UCLA and his undergraduate degree in mathematics and computer science at Cornell University.
David was recognized as one of the Top 50 SaaS CEOs of 2023 by The Software Report.
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In this episode we speak with âKimâ LechĂ , CEO of Typeform, a no-code SaaS platform with thoughtfully-designed tools that help companies grow their business by engaging with their audience. It provides a refreshingly different form builder that helps companies collect zero-party data while providing a stellar brand experience.
The company is backed by Sofina, General Atlantic, Index Ventures, and other notable investors.
Kim joined Typeform in 2018 as Chief Operating Officer, bringing more than 20 years of experience at high-growth companies. He was recently recognized by The Software Report as one of the Top 50 SaaS CEOs of 2023.
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