#147: How a Philadelphia Insurance Agent Built the Uber of Surety Bonds – Aaron Steffey
by PE Support | Jun 5, 2025
Aaron Steffey is the co-founder and co-CEO of Propeller, an online platform that enables insurance agents and brokers to issue surety bonds instantly — without the lengthy paperwork or back-and-forth typically involved in bonding. Aaron was an insurance...
#146: This European SaaS Bootstrapper Raised $22M in Growth Equity Without Losing Control – Roy van den Broek
by PE Support | May 29, 2025
Roy van den Broek is the founder and CEO of Rentman, a rental business management software platform for event and media production companies. Roy built software for his event equipment rental business in the Netherlands. He had over 100 software customers...
#145: Making Big Bold Bets with Patient Execution as a Bootstrapped Founder – Gopal Krishnamurthy
by PE Support | May 22, 2025
Gopal Krishnamurthy is the founder and CEO of Lumel, which has a suite of products focused on enterprise performance management (EPM). Their apps allow users to plan, report, and analyze data using modern native app frameworks on top of modern cloud data...
#144: From Founder-Led Sales to Scalable Go-To-Market in Vertical SaaS – Phil Stern
by PE Support | May 15, 2025
Phil Stern is the operating principal of Mainsail Partners, a growth equity firm that invests in bootstrapped vertical SaaS companies. Mainsail offers deep operating support to the leaders in their portfolio companies to help them grow more efficiently....