Navy SEALs of Company Scaling: Turn/River’s Joanne Yuan

In this episode, we speak with Joanne Yuan of Turn/River Capital, a leading technology growth equity and buyout firm that specializes in buyouts, spin-outs, growth capital investments, founder liquidity, and recapitalizations of technology, web, and SaaS companies.

Based in San Francisco, the firm is highly effective in rapidly scaling operations. With deep expertise in sales, marketing, customer success, and finance, its team acts like a software firm - they adapt Silicon Valley’s best modern software growth tactics to companies everywhere, carving a path for capital-efficient growth without compromises.

Joanne is a Partner at Turn/River. Growing up, she spent most weekends selling parts at computer trade shows, helping her dad run his one-man shop. That’s how she experienced firsthand the challenges bootstrapped companies face and the resiliency of their leaders. Joanne has invested in software from pre-launch to post-IPO, and worked everywhere from seed-stage venture to Google.

Joanne was selected as one of GrowthCap’s Top Women Leaders in Growth Investing of 2023.

I am your host RJ Lumba. We hope you enjoy the show. If you like the episode, click to subscribe.