HeyJaredBrydge Club by Ruffin Mitchener
Join Ruffin Mitchener, as she interviews the most exciting female founders and innovators. Get inspired by their startup journeys and learn how to get started on your own business. New episodes drop every Wednesday.
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From 1,000 No's to $27M Series A: How Victoria Thain Gioia Built Perelel Profitably (opens the original)
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Victoria Thain Gioia is the Co-Founder and CEO of Perelel Health, the doctor-formulated supplement brand that supports women at every stage, from conception and pregnancy through postpartum and perimenopause. Her daughter was born with a cleft lip linked to a folic acid deficiency, and that sent Victoria deep into prenatal nutrition. She found a category where the word "prenatal" isn't regulated, most formulas were one-size-fits-all, and nearly everything was built around the baby rather than th
How Vanta Won 600 Customers Without a Website and Grew to $300M ARR (opens the original)
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Christina Cacioppo never fit Silicon Valley's picture of a tech founder. She didn't grow up coding, spent two years in venture capital before teaching herself to program, and sold her first startup for $20,000 after none of its products found a market. Today she is the co-founder and CEO of Vanta, the compliance automation company that raised a $150 million Series D at a $4.15 billion valuation and, as of April 2026, has passed $300 million in ARR. Vanta now serves more than 16,000 organizations
How Stanford grad raised $11 million to build Clair Health: a hormone lab for your wrist (opens the original)
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Jenny Duan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Clair Health, the world's first wearable for continuous hormone monitoring. She started Clair as a junior at Stanford after a class on the women's health ecosystem showed her how little data women actually have about their own bodies. While studying abroad at Oxford, she worked nights and flew to the US three times in ten weeks to pitch investors and build out the team. Clair has since raised an $11 million seed round led by Khosla Ventures with participat
Payal Burned $500K on a Product Nobody Used, Then Built a $1B Company (opens the original)
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Welcome to the Brydge Club podcast! I'm your host, Ruffin, and today I'm going solo to break down one of the most misunderstood startup stories of the last decade: how Payal Kadakia built ClassPass. Fewer than 1% of funded startups reach $1 billion. Only 7% of unicorn founders are women, and women of color lead even fewer. Payal is one of them. But the ClassPass we know today, with 100 million hours of workouts booked across 30,000 partners in 28 countries, is not the company she set out to buil
How Alinea Invest went from a college business plan to raising $10 Million (opens the original)
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Eve Halimi and her co-founder Anam wrote a 100-page business plan on Saturdays while working full-time on Wall Street. Today, Alinea Invest, the AI-powered investing app they built, is used by roughly 1% of the U.S. population. In between: a Y Combinator acceptance won on founder-market fit alone, two years of iteration before anything worked, a $10 million Series A led by Play Ventures, and a $20 million cohort-financing facility that fuels their growth without touching equity. In this episode,
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