Growth Investor with GrowthCap‘s RJ Lumba

In this episode, we chat with Hunter Madeley, the CEO of Vena, which is the leading enterprise software company for corporate financial planning and budgeting.   More than 800 companies globally choose Vena to streamline their finance processes.  The company is backed by JMI Equity and Centana Growth Partners.    Hunter shares with us his key insights into rapidly scaling an organization, leadership lessons from ADP, Salesforce and Hubspot, and his vision for Vena in the years to come.   We hope you enjoy the show. 

In this episode, we chat with Teresa Mackintosh, the CEO of Trintech, which is the leading enterprise software company for finance professionals. Trintech has over 3,500 clients across the globe including the majority of the Fortune 100.  The company is backed by Summit Partners and Vista Equity.  Teresa shares with us her background and career experience as well as her insights into Trintech’s solutions and future expansion plans.  We hope you enjoy the show. 

In this episode, we chat with David Lessing, the Chief Revenue Officer of Addepar, which is the leading enterprise software company for wealth management professionals. Nearly $2 trillion in assets are currently managed on Addepar with $10 billion of assets added to the platform each week. David shares with us his background and career experience as well as his insights into Addepar’s solutions and future expansion plans.  We hope you enjoy the show.     

As states begin to open up and main street slowly comes back to life, real estate investors are evaluating next steps on their current holdings while embarking on new opportunities.  In this episode we chat with Tore Steen the CEO of CrowdStreet, the leading commercial real estate investment platform for individuals seeking access to the asset class.  Tore shares his thoughts on real estate marketplaces as well as CrowdStreet’s story.  We hear about how the company came to be, how they have been impacted by COVID-19 and where they’re headed. I am your host RJ Lumba, Managing Partner of GrowthCap.  We hope you enjoy the show.

Dave Greenberg and Suken Vakil, General Partners at JMI Equity, share insights from their extensive experience in growth equity investing in the software sector. They discuss how companies can navigate challenges posed by COVID-19 while maintaining resilience through high customer retention. The duo emphasizes their hands-on approach in partnering with management teams, highlighting successful case studies like Automotive Mastermind and Arena Solutions. With a focus on supply chain and product software, they explore strategies for scaling and transforming businesses.

With the coronavirus severely impacting the U.S. and global economy, the need for liquidity is at an all time high.  Many business owners are beyond stressed having to layoff employees and not knowing whether they will be able to survive.   In today’s episode we chat with Brock Blake, the founder and CEO of Lendio, the largest marketplace for business loans in the U.S.  To date, Lendio has funded over $2 billion across over 100,000 business.  We cover a lot of ground in our conversation from how the marketplace serves main street businesses to Brock’s own story building Lendio and the many challenges he faced along the way. We hope you enjoy the show.

We’ve all heard of the gig economy.  There are millions of people in today’s world who earn a living as a freelancer.  And a good portion of these freelancers are enabled through online platforms both in finding gigs as well as learning new skills.  In today’s episode we chat with Matt Cooper, the CEO of Skillshare, an online learning community for people working in the creative field from design to illustration to photography and beyond.  Over 9 million users are on Skillshare and according to Matt they are only beginning to scratch the surface of what the platform could become.  Some estimates place the global creative market at $2 trillion and in the U.S. alone $700 billion.  Matt has extensive experience in building and leading companies enabling the gig economy.  He shares with us his insights into the growing community on Skillshare as well as his keys to success in leading an organization.  We hope you enjoy the show.    

In this episode, we chat with Eric Kinariwala, the CEO and Founder of Capsule, a healthcare technology company that is forever changing the way we interact with pharmacies.  It was actually Eric’s terrible experience at a pharmacy one day that led to the idea behind Capsule.  And in just a few years since its founding in 2016, the company has made great strides towards becoming a pharmacy that works for everyone.  Eric has raised $270 million to date from notable backers including TCV, Thrive Capital and Glade Brook Capital Partners.  We cover a lot of ground in our conversation from Eric’s childhood observing his mother’s impact as an entrepreneur to his keen insights into the three waves of ecommerce.  We hope you enjoy the show. 

In this episode, we chat with Steve Murray, a Managing Partner at Revolution Growth, which is a late stage growth fund that invests in private companies around the country.  The fund has nearly $1 billion in assets under management and is an integral part to the Revolution platform founded by Steve Case and Ted Leonsis. Steve joined the Revolution Growth team as a partner in 2016 bringing over 25 years of experience with high growth technology businesses. He joined Revolution from Softbank where he worked for nearly 20 years with some of the most important technology companies of our generation including Yahoo, Etrade, GeoCities, Ziff Davis, GSI Commerce, Buzzfeed, Fitbit, xAd, Kabbage and many others. In our conversation you’ll hear about how the tech landscape has changed over the years, what Steve looks for in a good investment opportunity and how the Revolution platform and its Rise of The Rest initiative is having an impact across the country. We hope you enjoy the show.

In this episode, we chat with Ramzi Ramsey of Softbank Vision Fund, the iconic $100 billion venture capital fund.  The Fund is not only impressive because of its size but also because of the enduring vision and ambition of its founder, Masayoshi Son, and the team.  Ramzi focuses primarily on direct private company investments in the enterprise software space.  We cover quite a bit of ground in this conversation, from the genesis of Softbank to the founding of the Vision Fund and to how Ramzi and his colleagues quickly have significant impact on the companies they invest in.  Ramzi graduated from Carnegie Mellon University and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.  We hope you enjoy the show.