Great Entrepreneurs with RJ Lumba

AI-Powered Bookkeeping: Truewind’s Alex Lee

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Today, we speak with Alex Lee, Co-Founder and CEO of Truewind, an AI-powered platform that automates bookkeeping and financial modeling for accounting firms. By focusing on complex accrual accounting tasks—such as prepaid expenses, fixed assets, and deferred revenue—Truewind helps firms save time, improve accuracy, and support better decision-making.
Alex began his career as an aerospace engineer at Boeing before moving into venture capital, where he worked closely with portfolio companies on financial operations and reporting. In 2023, he co-founded Truewind to bring contextual intelligence into accounting workflows. Backed by Fin Capital, Y Combinator, and Thomson Reuters Ventures, Truewind has grown quickly, now serving dozens of firms and hundreds of businesses while continuing to expand its AI capabilities for accountants.
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Financing Global Trade: Drip Capital’s Pushkar Mukewar

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Today, we speak with Pushkar Mukewar, Founder and CEO of Drip Capital, a fintech transforming trade finance and facilitation for small and medium-sized businesses. Drip provides working capital solutions that allow exporters and manufacturers to access credit quickly and without collateral, enabling them to fulfill orders and expand globally.
Pushkar’s career spans technology and finance, including roles at Capital One and global financial services consulting, before launching Drip to close the financing gap for SMBs worldwide.
Since its founding, Drip has financed more than $7 billion in trade, supported 9,000 companies across over 100 countries, and built a global platform backed by leading venture firms and international banks.
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Making Hiring Smarter with AI: Humanly’s Prem Kumar

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Today, we speak with Prem Kumar, Co-Founder and CEO of Humanly, an AI-powered recruiting platform that helps hiring teams streamline sourcing, automate candidate screening, and simplify interview scheduling, while keeping essential conversations truly human-driven.
Prem brings over a decade of experience building technology for workforce engagement and HR solutions, with a focus on creating tools that make hiring more structured, fair, and efficient. His expertise lies in combining product innovation with deep understanding of the candidate experience to improve the recruiting process.
Since its launch, Humanly has supported hundreds of companies across industries such as healthcare, finance, insurance, and hospitality, engaging more than 250,000 candidates every month and driving faster, fairer hiring outcomes at scale.
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Transforming Retinal Screening: identifeye Health’s Vicky Demas

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Today, we speak with Vicky Demas, Founder and CEO of identifeye HEALTH, a company leveraging AI-driven retinal imaging to quickly and non-invasively detect diabetic retinopathy, cardiovascular risk, and early neurodegeneration.
Vicky brings over two decades of experience developing advanced diagnostic technologies, beginning with innovations in magnetic resonance imaging and now applying that expertise to make retinal exams more accessible and impactful.
Identifeye HEALTH is building a platform that integrates retinal data into everyday healthcare, enabling earlier interventions, reducing avoidable vision loss, and expanding preventative care.
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Connecting Communities to Social Care: Blooming Health’s Nima Roohi Sefidmazgi

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Today, we speak with Nima Roohi Sefidmazgi, CEO and Co-Founder of Blooming Health, a SaaS-enabled marketplace helping community organizations and social workers deliver essential services—from food and housing to transportation and prescription support.
Nima founded Blooming after caring for a loved one during the pandemic and seeing firsthand the gap between medical and social support. A former global data science lead, he brings over a decade of experience building machine learning tools for healthcare.
Launched in 2020, Blooming Health now operates in 24 states, supports over 1,000 organizations, and has facilitated $27 million in social care. Its platform integrates with Medicaid systems and EHRs to deliver measurable results and lasting impact.
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AI Sales Enablement Leader: Attention’s Anis Bennaceur

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Today, we speak with Anis Bennaceur, Co-Founder and CEO of Attention, an AI-native sales platform that turns conversations into insights and automates CRM updates, follow-ups, and real-time coaching.
Anis is a self-taught coder and product builder with experience leading growth at Tinder and running lean sales teams. He focuses on automation, data, and scalable tools that solve real-world problems for revenue organizations.
Since its launch, Attention has scaled rapidly, approaching eight figures in annual revenue. The platform helps sales teams automate workflows and capture insights, with clients like Scale AI and BambooHR across tech and insurance sectors.
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Protecting Family Finances: Carefull’s Max Goldman

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Today, we speak with Max Goldman, Co-Founder and CEO of Carefull, an AI-powered financial safety platform helping families protect aging loved ones from fraud, scams, and money mistakes. 
Max is a seasoned product leader with a track record in building and scaling B2B2C platforms across fintech, SaaS, and consumer tech. He focuses on solving real-world problems through design, data, and cross-functional collaboration.
Since 2020, Carefull has grown quickly with a B2B2C model that helps financial institutions protect older adults and build trust across generations. A new partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association strengthens its focus on financial caregiving.
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Accelerating Drug Discovery: Vivodyne’s Andrei Georgescu

In this episode, we speak with Andrei Georgescu, Co-Founder and CEO of Vivodyne, a biotechnology company accelerating drug discovery by testing treatments on lab-grown 3D human tissues.
Andrei co-founded Vivodyne in 2020 after recognizing the limitations of animal testing in predicting human outcomes. He brings deep expertise in tissue engineering, robotics, and AI, with prior work that includes sending lab-grown tissues into space with NASA and developing DNA synthesis chips.
Vivodyne’s platform integrates human tissue engineering, scalable robotics, and advanced machine learning to generate predictive human data, reshaping the future of drug development.
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Making Deli Meat Healthy: Prime Roots’ Kimberlie Le

In this episode, we speak with Kimberlie Le, Co-Founder and CEO of Prime Roots, a sustainable protein company using koji fungi mycelium to craft meat and seafood alternatives that nourish both people and the planet.
A lifelong food lover and the daughter of a chef, Kim studied agricultural microbiology at UC Berkeley and became a passionate food systems innovator. She’s a member of the Institute of Food Technologists and the James Beard Foundation, and has been featured in major outlets like The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Food & Wine.
Prime Roots is reinventing deli culture by reimagining protein at its source—offering delicious, umami-rich meats made with 92% less water and 89% less water eutrophication than animal-based meats, all while avoiding 9kg of CO₂ emissions per kilogram of Prime Roots bacon.
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HealthTech Innovator: Take Command Health’s Jack Hooper

In this episode, we speak with Jack Hooper, Co-Founder and CEO of Take Command Health, a Dallas-based SaaS company that helps employers reimburse employees for health insurance and empowers individuals to find coverage tailored to their needs.
Jack spent six years as an analyst for the CIA and FBI, helping top officials unravel data to understand risk and opportunity. He twice received an innovation award from the Director of the FBI and was honored for distinguished service overseas by the Director of the CIA. Jack also worked as a strategy consultant at the Boston Consulting Group.
Take Command Health is accelerating the adoption of the reimbursement model of health insurance. The company’s platform simplifies health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), helping businesses offer more flexible, cost-effective benefits.
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