Jun 29, 2022

Having a relationship before the start of the pandemic helped a lot of deals get done, and that was the case when Vytalize Health acquired MedPilot back in February 2021. Vytalize Health CFO Kevin Murphy and MedPilot founder Matt Buder Shapiro, now CMO of Vytalize, talk about the transaction, doing the deal during...

Jun 17, 2022

Great Day Improvements has executed a series of deals that put it among the fastest-growing private mid-market companies in Ohio. It's grown from 12 market locations at the beginning of 2018 to over 115 locations in 77 US markets and over 2,200 employees today. Ed Weinfurtner, chairman of Blue Olive Partners, discusses...

Jun 17, 2022

412 Venture Fund has only been around a few years, but its founders and managing partners bring decades of experience to investing in early-stage ventures that have a Pittsburgh connection. In this episode, Managing Partner Ilana Diamond talks about the fund, its first exit, the advantage of launching during the...

Jun 16, 2022

Liturgical Publications is in its 50th year as a faith-based print advertising company. About 10 years ago, LPi leadership decided to dip their toes into software as a service and created a closed social network for churches to promote events. Somewhere early in the process, a customer asked if a donation...

Jun 2, 2022

Mykolas Rambus is a serial entrepreneur who founded and sold two previous companies, including Wealth-X, where he served as CEO until its 2016 sale for more than $20 million. Last year, he raised early-stage rounds of capital to build out Hush, a company that offers cybersecurity services. Though the capital raise...