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The Growth Investor With a Four-Number Test for Software
Arsenal Growth Equity does not hunt for the loudest software company in the room. It looks for the one already doing $5 million-plus in revenue, growing 25% a year and keeping 90% of its customers - then writes a check designed to preserve control.
Celonis
Celonis is a German-American enterprise software company that pioneered the process mining market. Its Process Intelligence platform reconstructs how a company's work actually flows by reading event logs from systems like SAP, Oracle, Salesforce and ServiceNow, then surfaces bottlenecks, rework and hidden inefficiencies and helps fix them through automation, simulation and, increasingly, AI agents. Founded in 2011 by three Technical University of Munich graduates, Celonis serves more than 1,500 enterprise customers and was last valued at roughly $13 billion.
RV Healthcare Solutions
RV Healthcare Solutions (RVH Solutions), which operates the Teamwrks technology suite, is a New York-based healthcare technology company that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to help hospitals and health systems improve financial and quality performance without reducing staff. Grown out of Workforce Prescriptions and backed by Rizk Ventures and Vizient, Teamwrks turns operational data into department-level targets, AI-driven root-cause insights and actionable workflows - typically deployed in days rather than months.
Jason Palmer
Jason Palmer is the chief executive officer of RV Healthcare Solutions, the New York-based healthcare technology company behind the Teamwrks platform, which uses AI and machine learning to help hospitals improve financial and quality performance without cutting staff. He is also Managing Partner for Healthcare and Technology at Rizk Ventures. A UCLA-trained lawyer turned operator, Palmer has spent roughly two decades founding and running companies across healthcare, software, technology, and education, and in 2021 led RVH Solutions to a Series B round from Vizient, the largest member-driven healthcare performance improvement company in the United States.
ControlRooms.ai
ControlRooms.ai is an Austin-based industrial AI company that builds an AI-assisted troubleshooting platform for heavy industry - chemical, energy, and materials producers. Instead of relying on static, pre-programmed rules, its software learns a plant's normal behavior on its own and flags anomalies in real time across thousands of sensor parameters, helping operators catch small problems before they become unplanned trips, flaring events, or costly downtime. Founded in 2021 by serial AI entrepreneur Monte Zweben and Omar Talib, the company raised an oversubscribed $10M Series A in 2023 led by Origin Ventures and is live at industrial leaders including OCI Global and Ardagh Group.
Wobot AI
Wobot AI is a video intelligence company that turns the cameras businesses already own into an operational analyst. Its AI-first SaaS platform plugs into existing CCTV systems to monitor standard-operating-procedure compliance, food safety, drive-thru speed of service, and loss prevention across restaurants, retail, manufacturing, hospitality, and pharma. Founded in 2017 and backed by Sequoia/Surge, Wobot helps multi-location operators cut the cost of manual monitoring and convert raw video feeds into actionable, real-time business insights.
Robert Potter
Robert Potter is the CEO of Oomnitza, a San Francisco-based enterprise technology management (ETM) platform that gives IT teams a single pane of glass across their entire asset portfolio. Appointed in September 2024, Potter brings over 25 years of executive leadership in technology and cybersecurity, including tenures at Mandiant, RSA/EMC, Symantec, Lancope/Cisco, and IBM. A venture partner at SYN Ventures and a Quinnipiac University board member, he is also the co-founder of the Robert & Kathryn Potter Charitable Foundation supporting mental health, cancer research, and military families. Under his leadership, Oomnitza was named one of The Information's 50 Most Promising Startups of 2024.
Verdigris
Verdigris is a Mountain View-based AI and IoT company that turns raw electrical data into actionable intelligence for data centers, commercial buildings, and industrial facilities. By clamping high-frequency sensors onto electrical circuits and running proprietary AI algorithms on the resulting waveform data, Verdigris gives facility operators real-time visibility into energy consumption, power quality, and equipment health - detecting failures before they happen, recovering stranded capacity, and driving 20-50% reductions in energy spend. Founded in 2011, the company serves Fortune 500 customers including T-Mobile, Verizon, and NVIDIA across 17 countries.