About Us
Providing strategic advisory, investment banking, and wealth management services since 1999.
Welcome to Growthink, where we help clients define and realize the whys and hows of business, asset & wealth-building.
Growthink Advisory develops strategies, research, plans and innovations to help organizations grow and succeed.
Growthink Capital, our wholly owned FINRA / SIPC broker-dealer investment bank, raises capital and advises on M&A transactions & stakeholder liquidity events for emerging and middle market companies.
GT Investment Management, our wholly owned Registered Investment Advisor, provides asset & wealth management services to businesses, individuals and families.
Our Story
In 1999, Growthink co-founders Dave Lavinsky and Jay Turo graduated with their MBA’s from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. They conceived Growthink from their deep and abiding passion and curiosity for business. As Turo says, “The work we do at Growthink is what Dave and I would just naturally do whenever we got together – talking about businesses we love and how to make them better.”
Growthink's Mission
Growthink’s mission is to help executives and entrepreneurs grow their businesses, so they can create jobs, offer customers better products and services, realize personal satisfaction and wealth, and fund programs that make the world a better place.
Our Values
Integrity
In all our work, we subscribe to the simple credo of saying what we will do and doing what we say.
Courage
We hold ourselves and our clients to extraordinarily high standards of performance, ethics, and accountability.
Positivity
We encourage our clients and each other to focus and act on what is doable and good, and to approach challenges and difficulties with a proactive, problem-solving mindset.
Client Promises
We Honor Your Journey
We are present with and for You. We have the ultimate respect for those that embark on the great hero’s journey of business. With each and every client, we embrace our mission of helping executives and entrepreneurs – with all kinds of ambitions, objectives, goals, dreams, and visions – to succeed.
We Deliver Quality
We subscribe to Robert Pirsig’s famous definition of quality as the result of care. We take special care to do things right.
We take great pride in the work we do as a company and as individuals. We are extremely proud of the reviews we receive on the Growthink Reviews page. We are also proud of our 4.9-star rating on Reseller Ratings and 4.8-star rating on Google.
We Are a Team
We embody and utilize the royal “WE”, not the pedestrian “I.” We recognize that we all stand on each other’s shoulders in doing great work, in accomplishing great things.
We Are Efficient
Brevity and timeliness are high virtues. We define and adhere to project roles, responsibilities, and timelines. We get on with it, and effectively utilize technology to collaborate, to connect, and to complete in transparent, real-time manners.
We are Opportunistic and Strategic
We find that fine balance between the fierce urgency of now to complete tasks and to do lists, and the longer, strategic view of building value over time.
Who We Are
Our Founders
Jay Turo
Founder & CEO
Jay has over 25 years of experience in starting, building, advising and investing in high growth firms. Jay has an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA and earned a Bachelor’s degree with Distinction and with Departmental Honors from Stanford University.
Dave Lavinsky
Founder & President
Dave is an internationally renowned expert in the fields of business planning, capital raising, and new venture development, and author of the world’s #1 business plan template. Over the past decade, Dave has guest lectured at top universities and has published hundreds of articles on entrepreneurship, business planning and capital-raising.
Our Team
Growthink team members have deep entrepreneurial and professional backgrounds. Our collaborative environment ensures your firm benefits from the experience and insight of our team.
We are proud to have helped thousands of clients big and small achieve their goals.
See how we’ve helped ambitious clients achieve extraordinary results.
BatBox
Growthink added substantial value to our investor strategy and planning by providing expert guidance in refining our business model, articulating our growth projections clearly, and aligning our financial strategy with investor expectations. They helped us craft a compelling narrative that resonated with potential investors, enhancing our overall credibility and attractiveness in the fundraising process.
Quativa
I was very impressed with how quickly Growthink grasped our unique industry and business.
In a short period of time, they completed research, a beautiful pitch deck and financial projections that we used in our Series A round, which closed successfully.
Integreon
I worked with the team at Growthink to accelerate the development of the original Integreon business plan.
They are a sharp, creative, and results-focused group. I recommend them highly to companies of all sizes looking to turbocharge the development of their strategic business plans and their businesses.
impro.AI
We really appreciated working with you! The team you assembled, the quality of your work and the process you took us through really helped us in our thinking. It wasn’t just the meetings and reports you created, but also the structured process that forced us to really think through our target customers, our marketing process, our onboarding process, what technology we must deliver and when – all of that was super helpful.
V Starr Interiors
I loved working with Growthink.
The staff are passionate about their work and committed to what they do in a way that can only be achieved when you love what you do. They helped keep us on track to achieve our planning goals.
I am looking forward to continued success working with everyone from Growthink in the future.
HMG Plus
I absolutely loved working with Growthink!
They listened to our objectives and truly understood what our mission was prior to beginning our project. They hit all their milestones on-time and on-point. They ultimately delivered a very valuable tool that will have tremendous use to us in our growth plan.
I highly recommend Antonio and the Growthink team.
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Let’s work together to transform your business vision into reality.
