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Growth Street: Grow bigger. Keep the wheel.
The software founder knows the industry. The investor knows the next hundred problems. Growth Street Partners builds its deals around keeping both at the table.
DCM Ventures bets across borders
A venture firm built between Silicon Valley and Asia has spent three decades looking for ideas that travel. Its most useful export may be the people who know what changes along the way.
Nexa Equity bets on the software nobody talks about
Roofing estimates. Warehouse shifts. School tickets. Nexa Equity backs the software behind everyday work, then helps its founders build the companies around it.
Tom Hui built his second act in the cloud
After selling his first software company, Tom Hui started again with HST Pathways. His next act would turn on a less fashionable skill than invention: giving a business time to work.
Sean Mallapurkar built an $11 million software business with Dad. He plans to keep it.
After a consumer startup failed, Shoanak (Sean) Mallapurkar returned to India to build Recruit CRM with his father. Their family-owned software business now serves recruitment firms across more than 100 countries, with independence still part of the plan.
Joseph Elias Phillips puts a family-business instinct into the machinery of money
A grandfather’s jewelry business, a friendship forged in a Miami salsa club, and a lesson at ServiceTitan led Joseph Elias Phillips to co-found Payabli. His wager: help software companies handle the money already moving through their customers’ lives.
William Corbera started in a dorm room. The payments problem kept getting bigger.
A college sales crew, a salsa-club friendship, and two decades spent untangling how businesses get paid. Inside the working life of Payabli co-founder William Corbera.
Sunil Patel put up a glass wall. Then he built Tekmetric.
At his Houston repair shop, Sunil Patel let customers see the work. His software company carries that same idea into inspections, estimates and the everyday business of earning trust.
Sanjay Varnwal gave up business to build a better one
From photography tools to AI for car dealers, Spyne co-founder Sanjay Varnwal has learned to make ambition more specific. His next challenge is to help dealerships turn a good-looking listing into an actual conversation.
Jack Pawlik and the education of a six o’clock barista
Before Dripos reached more than 1,000 coffee shops, Jack Pawlik spent months working the counter for free. The lesson was waiting on the other side of the register.
Avery Durrant and the trouble between the tools
He helped coffee shops trade a patchwork of software for Dripos. Now Avery Durrant is building Custral around a familiar question: why does every team have a different version of the same customer?
Maximilian Kogler and the arithmetic of play
He tried to pick apart a ping-pong business with a spreadsheet. Now the PodPlay co-founder is building the software behind other people’s games - and keeping a table booked for himself.
Payabli follows the money. All of it.
Getting paid is only the beginning. Payabli helps software companies turn the messy work of accepting, sending and tracking money into a business of its own.
Glow Services makes the phone sale bigger than the phone.
The device is only the beginning. Glow connects financing, insurance and trade-in behind a retailer’s brand - and brings the capital relationships to help pay for it.
Wisetack puts the loan inside the quote.
A contractor can solve the problem and still lose the job. Wisetack puts monthly payments into the estimate, changing the conversation before the customer says no.
Progress Partners knows who should meet next
A fleet software founder, a streaming-TV platform and a weather-data business face different futures. Progress Partners helps find the buyer, investor or acquisition that fits.
Cybersoft makes lunch add up.
Behind every school lunch is a second serving of paperwork. Cybersoft connects the menus, money, and inventory so the people feeding children can get on with it.
John Kramer’s theory of the overflowing plate
At HoneyBook, John Kramer learned to remove the work that kept other people from doing theirs. At Salsa, the co-founder and CEO is applying that lesson to payday.
Why the internet led Nathaniel Stevens back to the car lot
A search-ad experiment at his family’s Ford dealership became Yodle. After the company’s $342.4 million sale, Nathaniel Stevens kept working on the same question: what does a local business need to compete?
Ara Mahdessian and the work that followed Dad home
His father finished the job, then came home to another shift of paperwork. Ara Mahdessian built ServiceTitan with Vahe Kuzoyan to give contractors a different kind of working day.
Tim Crawford and the five minutes that can change a driving career
Tim Crawford co-founded Tenstreet to get trucking’s hiring paperwork moving. Twenty years later, he is still counting the minutes between a driver asking for work and a person answering.
Amos Haggiag’s ten-year bus puzzle
A conversation with his father sent Amos Haggiag into the mathematics of public transport. Ten years later, he left Microsoft to build Optibus - and discovered that moving buses also means understanding people.
Tom Michels and the appointment that kept getting bigger
Tom Michels wanted to book a haircut online. Years of salon visits, late-night coding and shared decisions turned that small inconvenience into Salonkee, now used by more than 10,000 salons across Europe.
Ali Javid and the Hollywood Problem That Came Back Every Payday
After Body Labs, Ali Javid wanted a business built around a problem customers had to solve again and again. At Wrapbook, he found it in the paperwork behind the pictures.
Dan Uyemura and the art of making yourself less necessary
He built gyms, wrote their software, and then gave up the keyboard. For the co-founder of PushPress, growing a business has meant learning which parts of the job to leave behind.
Nate Baker and the Value of a Finished Basement
He chose real estate software on paper. Then a Massachusetts lawyer gave him a place to stay and a business to understand. A decade later, the Qualia co-founder is trying to teach software to do the work he once moved in to learn.
ROLLER makes room for fun
The hard part of a day out can happen before the first ride. ROLLER connects the tickets, waivers, payments and memberships that stand between a guest and a good time.
Tekmetric puts the repair shop in plain sight
A glass wall helped Sunil Patel earn his customers’ trust. His software company takes the same idea into inspections, estimates and payments - now across more than 15,000 shops.
Modern Campus makes the next step obvious
A college can offer the right course and still lose the student. Modern Campus builds software for the awkward space between being interested and getting somewhere.
Embrace buys the software people cannot quit.
Foundry floors. College plans. Tax payments. Embrace buys the specialist software behind ordinary work - and bets that the next chapter deserves fresh code and fresh capital.