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Jim Labe

Co-CEO & Co-Founder

Jim Labe

Co-CEO & Co-Founder

Jim Labe is the Co-Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of TriplePoint Capital. Mr. Labe is widely recognized as the pioneer of the venture leasing and lending segment of the commercial finance industry. He played a key role in making venture leasing and lending an essential source of capital for venture capital-backed companies. Over the past twenty-five years, Mr. Labe has worked closely with venture capitalists and entrepreneurs introducing them to the benefits of venture leasing and lending. He has closed venture lease and loan transactions with hundreds of venture capital-backed companies.

Prior to co-founding TriplePoint, Mr. Labe founded Comdisco Ventures in 1987, the venture division of Comdisco, Inc. He led the division as CEO for over 15 years, managing over $3 billion in lease and loan transactions to more than 970 leading venture capital-backed companies. Under his leadership, Comdisco Ventures recognized thirteen consecutive years of profitability representing more than $500 million in cumulative pre-tax profits. Comdisco Ventures was recognized by BusinessWeek, Forbes, The Red-Herring, and other industry publications as the leader of the venture leasing and lending industry. Mr. Labe personally trained senior members of many of the existing firms in the venture leasing and lending industry.

Prior to Comdisco Ventures, Mr. Labe served as a Director at Equitec Financial Group, the first nationwide institution to provide warrant-based leases to venture capital-backed companies. During his tenure at Equitec, he helped develop the concept of venture leasing and originated many venture lease and loan transactions. Mr. Labe has played a pivotal role in making venture leasing and lending an essential source of capital for private venture capital-backed companies and in the process has educated the financial and academic communities on the concept. Mr. Labe is a speaker at venture industry conferences and has appeared as a guest speaker on the topic at both Harvard Business School and the University of Chicago School of Business.

When not at the helm at TriplePoint Capital, his diverse civic interests have included Stanford University’s Athletic Advisory Board, Silicon Valley Community Ventures (Pacific Community Ventures), the Youth Tennis Association (YTA), the East Palo Alto Tennis Tutorial Program (EPATT), and serving as a volunteer camp counselor for underprivileged inner-city youths.

Mr. Labe holds an XM.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from Middlebury College in Vermont.

Mr. Labe serves as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC Corp.

Sajal Srivastava

Co-CEO & Co-Founder

Sajal Srivastava

Co-CEO & Co-Founder

Sajal Srivastava is the Co-Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of TriplePoint Capital. He oversees TriplePoint’s investment analysis, operations, account servicing, portfolio monitoring, and documentation groups.

Mr. Srivastava brings strong investment and operating leadership experience along with a venture lending, leasing and technology finance background having been involved in the industry for over 20 years. Mr. Srivastava has served as a voting member of TriplePoint’s Investment Committee and has led and overseen TriplePoint’s day to day operations, credit and investment analysis, account servicing, portfolio monitoring, legal and finance groups since co-founding TriplePoint Capital with Mr. Labe. Prior to co-founding TPC, Mr. Srivastava worked with Mr. Labe at Comdisco Ventures where he, as head of their Investment and Credit Analyst team, structured, negotiated and managed over venture lending and leasing transactions and also managed the diligence and credit analysis team.

Prior to Comdisco Ventures, Mr. Srivastava was a financial analyst in the technology investment banking group at Prudential Securities working on debt and equity financings, as well as mergers and acquisitions advisory services. Mr. Srivastava was part of the team that structured Prudential Securities’ partnership with a leading venture-focused commercial bank.

Mr. Srivastava holds a M.S. in Engineering Economic Systems & Operations Research and a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University.

Mr. Srivastava serves as the President and Chief Investment Officer of TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC Corp.

Mike L. Wilhelms

Chief Financial Officer

Mike L. Wilhelms

Chief Financial Officer

Mike L. Wilhelms, our Chief Financial Officer, has more than three decades of financial leadership and private credit experience, working with public and private companies across the BDC, asset management, specialty finance and public accounting sectors. Prior to joining TriplePoint, Mr. Wilhelms served as the Chief Financial Officer of Sabal Capital Holding Company, LLC, the holding company for Sabal Investment Holdings, LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser that provides investment management services to institutional investors focused on debt and equity investments.

From January 2020 until its sale to Regions Bank in December 2021, Mr. Wilhelms also served as the Chief Financial Officer of Sabal Capital Partners, LLC, a commercial real estate lending platform that maintained a servicing portfolio of nearly $5 billion. Prior to Sabal, Mr. Wilhelms was at Crescent Capital Group LP, a middle-market lending platform and SEC-registered investment adviser. While at Crescent Capital Group LP, he served as Chief Financial Officer of the company’s first public fund, Crescent Capital BDC, Inc., from April 2015 to December 2019. Mr. Wilhelms was also the Chief Financial Officer of Triad Financial Corporation, and started his career at KPMG in 1993 in the assurance practice, specializing in financial services.

Mr. Wilhelms received a B.A. in Business Economics from the University of California Santa Barbara and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) (inactive).