The AI Software Report with RJ Lumba

Personalizing Customer Messaging: Aampe’s Paul Meinshausen

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Today, we speak with Paul Meinshausen, Co-Founder and CEO of Aampe, a B2B SaaS company that helps consumer technology businesses deliver continuously personalized customer experiences. By using reinforcement learning, Aampe automates personalization, testing, and optimization for messaging and in-app interactions, enabling teams to adapt to user preferences in real time. The company works with brands across Europe, Asia, and North America to strengthen customer engagement.
Paul previously co-founded PaySense, a fintech credit platform in India that was acquired by PayU for $185 million. With a background in behavioral, cognitive, and organizational science, he has led data science, engineering, and product teams globally, and is also an advisor and early-stage investor.
Paul supports Data Science for Social Good. To learn more about this organization click here.
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Scaling Enterprise Software: Shop Circle’s Luca Cartechini

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Today, we speak with Luca Cartechini, Co-Founder and CEO of Shop Circle, a technology group building AI-powered software that supports the core operations of modern enterprises. Shop Circle scales mission-critical B2B products from launch to market leadership, embedding AI to automate workflows, turn data into action, and drive growth.
Luca began his career in equity research at Jefferies covering European technology companies and later worked in venture capital before founding Shop Circle in 2021.
Since then, the company has raised more than $150 million from investors including NFX, QED, Nextalia, 645 Ventures, and more, and now serves over 130,000 customers worldwide.
Luca supports Endeavor. To learn more about this organization click here.
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Maintenance Software Leader: Limble’s Bryan Christiansen

Today, we speak with Bryan Christiansen, Founder and CEO of Limble CMMS, a modern maintenance management platform that helps facility and maintenance teams organize, automate, and streamline their work.
A self-taught developer turned entrepreneur, Bryan launched Limble in 2015 after exploring underserved markets and discovering the daily challenges faced by maintenance professionals. His focus on customer problems and practical solutions turned Limble into a trusted tool for industries ranging from manufacturing and energy to hospitality and agriculture.
Today, Limble supports thousands of organizations worldwide and has helped customers save over $134 million in annual downtime costs.
I am your host RJ Lumba. I am the Managing Partner of GrowthCap and Executive Chairman of Market Insight Media. We hope you enjoy the show. If you like the episode click to follow.

Unlocking Digital Potential: Optimizely’s Alex Atzberger

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Today, we speak with Alex Atzberger, Chief Executive Officer of Optimizely, a leading marketing technology company that helps brands create, optimize, and deliver high-impact digital experiences through an AI-powered operating system for marketers.
Since becoming CEO in 2019, Alex has led Optimizely through a period of strategic growth, including a major rebrand and a series of successful acquisitions. His leadership has positioned the company as a top choice for enterprise marketing teams worldwide.
Optimizely’s composable platform now powers marketing at leading global brands like Salesforce, Zoom, and Toyota—helping them move faster, experiment smarter, and deliver high-quality digital experiences at scale.
Alex supports Rescuing Leftover Cuisine. To learn more about this organization click here.
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Data-Intelligence Leader: Alation’s Satyen Sangani

In this episode, we speak with Satyen Sangani, the Co-Founder and CEO of Alation, an enterprise software company, whose data catalog serves enterprises in organizing and consolidating their data. Nearly 600 global enterprises — including 40% of the Fortune 100 — rely on Alation to realize value from every data and AI initiative. 
Alation is backed by Thoma Bravo, Riverwood Capital, Salesforce Ventures and other notable investors.
Since 2012, Satyen and his team have been passionate about helping enterprises create thriving data cultures where anyone can find, understand, and trust data.   Prior to founding Alation, Satyen spent a decade at Oracle where he managed the financial services warehousing and performance management business. 
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Mastering Risk Management: LogicGate’s Matt Kunkel and Jon Seigler

In this episode, we speak with Matt Kunkel and Jon Siegler, the Co-Founders of LogicGate, a global market-leading SaaS company enabling cybersecurity, governance, risk and compliance teams to easily and effectively accelerate their GRC program maturity.  The organization's platform has received numerous praise from industry experts and analysts, noting the user experience is second to none.
Based in Chicago, LogicGate serves almost 400 brands across the globe - simplifying the complex to help GRC leaders be more efficient, productive and effective. They have expertise in FinTech, Banking, Healthcare, Hospitality, Energy and many other industries.
Matt and Jon support Seneca Foundation. To learn more about this organization click here.
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Ahead of the Data Boom: Compass Datacenters’ Chris Crosby

In this episode, we speak with Chris Crosby, the CEO of Compass Datacenters, a company that designs and constructs data centers for some of the world’s largest hyperscalers and cloud providers on campuses across the globe.
The company has taken in over $4 billion of capital and is backed by Ontario Teachers and Brookfield, among others.
In 2011, Chris’ vision was to focus on greenfield projects and deliver customizable, scalable, sustainable, and low-cost data centers in an expedited time frame.  Since its inception, Compass Datacenters has embraced sustainability with the efficient use of land, green energy, water-free cooling, and building materials.
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A Platform That Developers Love: Netlify’s Chris Bach

In this episode, we speak with Chris Bach, the Co-Founder of Netlify, a platform for developers to build highly-performant and dynamic websites, e-commerce stores and applications.
In 2015, Chris and his team saw that the web would be endlessly more performant, secure and scalable if it would move off the traditional monoliths to a new decoupled architecture. By uniting an extensive ecosystem of technologies, services and APIs into one workflow, Netlify unlocks new levels of team productivity, while saving time and money.
Netlify has raised over $200 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer, Bond, EQT and other notable investors.
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Intelligent Integration Leader: Workato’s Vijay Tella

In this episode, we speak with Vijay Tella, the Co-founder and CEO of Workato, a platform for intelligent integration and workflow automation.
In 2013, Workato was founded by Vijay Tella, Gautham Viswanathan, and Harish Shetty. Their intention was automating workflows through a no-code platform. Prior to Workato, Vijay was CEO of Qik, a consumer video communications company acquired by Skype. 
Workato has raised over $400 million and is backed by Battery Ventures, Altimeter, Insight Partners, Norwest, and other notable investors.
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Supercharging Behavioral Data: FullStory’s Scott Voigt

In this episode, we speak with Scott Voigt, the Founder and CEO of FullStory, a behavioral data platform that helps technology leaders make better, more informed decisions.
In 2014, Scott teamed up with two former Innuvo colleagues to develop the earliest iterations of Fullstory. Scott’s mission is for organizations to understand their customers like never before. FullStory’s platform allows businesses to create world-class experiences that increase funnel conversion, easily detect malicious behaviors and fraud, and identify their highest-value customers effortlessly.
Prior to co-founding Fullstory, Voigt led marketing at Silverpop before the company was acquired by IBM. Previously, he worked at Noro-Moseley Partners, the Southeast's largest Venture firm, and also served as COO at Innuvo, which was acquired by Google.
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