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08/19/2026

Every company you've ever worked for is secretly held together by duct tape – software systems that don't talk to each other, and expensive engineers paid to force them to. David Potts built a business fixing that problem for himself, and then realized the fix was worth more than the company it came from. He spent decades shipping products at Texas Instruments and SafeNet, founded SalesWarp, and now leads Camber Creek portfolio company CloudQix.

In this episode, David sat down with Camber Creek General Partner Jeffrey Berman to discuss how an integration platform originally built to solve complex problems for retailers evolved into CloudQix – and why the rise of AI has made connecting disparate systems securely more important than ever. They explore CloudQix’s focus on wealth management and RIAs, where firms are eager to embrace AI but face fragmented data, legacy systems, privacy concerns, and strict compliance requirements.

David also shares his perspective on what enterprise AI adoption looks like beyond the hype: how companies can use AI while maintaining security, governance, and audit trails; why businesses shouldn’t necessarily tie themselves to a single foundational model; and where human expertise still matters as more work becomes automated.

The full conversation is on Camber Creek's Catalyst podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/catalyst-by-camber-creek/

08/05/2026

Felix Sabates could be the most interesting man in the world. He was an early distributor for one of the first commercially successful video games, Atari's Pong. He did a lot to introduce Nintendo to America from its home in Japan. And he was a founding co-owner of the Charlotte Hornets, an NBA franchise.

He also loves cars. He used to own his own NASCAR team.

Sabates did all of this after fleeing Cuba as a teenager. He sat down with Camber Creek General Partner Jeffrey Berman to talk about his remarkable life and career.

The full conversation is on Camber Creek's Catalyst podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/catalyst-by-camber-creek/

07/22/2026

Rebecca Patterson is not a therapist by training, but talking to her certainly feels therapeutic. A senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and an independent director at Vanguard, she gets a lot of calls from CEOs, policymakers, and publications like The New York Times that more or less boil down to this question: What in the world is happening to the economy, and how do I survive it?

People reach out to her because she's smart, but also, we suspect, because she doesn't respond as if she's above it all. These questions aren't just analytical. Rebecca is in it with us. We talked about how the offshoring of US manufacturing jobs beginning in the '70s and some of the transformations that followed might help us read or at least appreciate what artificial intelligence could do to labor markets.

We also asked her about political populism and why she spends so much time thinking about second- and third-order effects of big changes, the things that might not make headlines.

The full conversation is on Camber Creek's Catalyst podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/catalyst-by-camber-creek/2975360

07/08/2026

John Belizaire and his company's stock price have been on a roller coaster ride. Soluna connects clients with big computer processing needs to the energy to power those calculations. Because it was so heavily tied to Bitcoin mining, the share price has risen and fallen with the cryptocurrency and is now down more than 3000% from its 2021 peak.

But John is convinced that he and his team are solving big problems, like how to efficiently power data centers. Instead of requiring utilities to build expensive new infrastructure in highly populated areas, Soluna locates its data centers next to renewable energy assets like wind farms, where the marginal cost of a kilowatt-hour is minuscule. And he spends a fair amount of his time on social media explaining this approach.

It's fascinating. Even though Soluna is a public company, it leverages the strategies of startups and influencers to reach retail and institutional investors, because the price of energy is rising, but the value in capturing people's attention is even greater.

The full conversation is on Camber Creek's Catalyst podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/catalyst-by-camber-creek/2971991/

07/01/2026

If you've ever notarized a document online instead of having to get in your car to drive to a notary public, you have Pat Kinsel to thank. And if one day your identity is not stolen after you purchase something on the web, you may have Pat and his team to thank for that, too.

As Co-Founder of the identity-verification company Proof, formerly known as Notarize, Pat Kinsel gets animated about problems that are important but largely invisible, vulnerable moments during pivotal online interactions that can come back to haunt us if the right protections aren't in place. So he's building a trust layer for the internet with clients like Visa.

Pat spoke with Camber Creek Managing Partner Jake Fingert about how he and his partner went state by state to make remote online notarization a reality.

Listen to the full conversation on Camber Creek's Catalyst podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/catalyst-by-camber-creek/2955367/

06/25/2026

Jeremy Garelick just wants to make people laugh. But to sustain an incredibly successful career doing that, he has solved some pretty knotty problems. In his twenties, he didn't know how to write a script but transformed himself from a production assistant into a sought-after screenwriter in just a few years. He would go on to co-write The Hangover.

When movie studios refused to make the kind of comedies he loves, because they thought the return on smaller films wasn't worth their effort, he purchased an old high school as a film set, kept costs low, and arranged his own financing. Today, he controls every aspect of production on a campus called American High.

While Hollywood struggles in the streaming era and sees diminishing returns from old, overused properties, Garelick has figured out his own business model, how to grab attention with original stories, and when he needs to, bypass the studio system, all in the service of jokes.

Listen to the full conversation on Camber Creek's Catalyst podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/catalyst-by-camber-creek/2939814/

06/17/2026

Systematizing serendipity.

That's how Canay Deniz, CEO of Ren Systems, describes what Ren is doing.

How often do you find out about someone's promotion, their founding a new company, or launching a project well after it happened, if at all?

Ren scans your contacts and hundreds of thousands of news sources to serve you deal-defining, even career-defining moments on a regular basis.

On Camber Creek's Catalyst podcast, Jean-Paul Bowgen and Lionel Foster spoke with Canay about where this idea came from, how much goes into building and running Ren, and why Camber Creek invested.

Canay's background is amazing. It's obvious he's worked hard. But he speaks with real humility about the role of luck and how much he wants to help more people improve their odds of success.

The full interview is available at https://rss.com/podcasts/catalyst-by-camber-creek/2920255/

06/03/2026

Aza Nedhari set out to solve an enormous problem facing women giving birth. The US has the highest rate of maternal death of any high-income country, and within the US, that rate is by far the highest for Black women.

Researchers estimate that most of these deaths are preventable.

To fix this, Aza helped invent a new type of community health worker, a perinatal community health worker, coordinating across medical professionals and generations of family members to reshape the environment around expecting mothers.

Over more than a decade, her organization, Mamatoto Village, has a perfect track record,: four thousand families and zero maternal deaths. But what kind of toll does perfection take when navigating complex health systems, economic inequality, and racial bias? And how important is it to celebrate now when you know that eventually, statistically, you will lose at least one?

Listen to the full conversation on Camber Creek's podcast Catalyst: https://rss.com/podcasts/catalyst-by-camber-creek/2879254/

05/27/2026

Deb Liu invented Facebook Marketplace because she carefully observed customer behavior--especially when it did not exactly align with the way a product was built. In this clip, she recalls how her previous employer, PayPal, was initially wary of how many people started using it to pay for products on eBay. They nearly shut it down, but e-commerce on eBay eventually became one of their biggest use cases.

Listen to the full conversation on Camber Creek's podcast Catalyst: https://rss.com/podcasts/catalyst-by-camber-creek/2862240/

05/20/2026

The man who helped Salesforce prepare for the AI era has advice for the rest of us.

After the public launch of ChatGPT, Salesforce knew that AI agents were coming for it. AI agents are smart, autonomous programs set loose on an infinite number of specific tasks. The danger was that this giant company that revolutionized business software and popularized the very concept of software as a service might be overtaken by the next big thing.

One of the people it turned to to help prevent that was Prasad Thammineni. Now Prasad has his own company, Agentman, which is focused on helping organizations deploy AI agents that can automate sophisticated workflows without requiring users to write code.

In Prasad's view, yes, AI agents might be as disruptive as many people fear. But he's also convinced that, like Salesforce, we can adapt. It's still early enough that we can all choose to be pioneers.

Listen on Camber Creek's Catalyst podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/catalyst-by-camber-creek/2838960/

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