Sacramento Startups Podcast

At the most recent StartupSac Happy Hour on June 26, dozens turned out to the patio of Hot Italian midtown for an AMA (Ask Me Anything) with the co-founder of Engage3, Ken Ouimet. Ken cofounded Engage3 with his brother to disrupt retail pricing using advanced data analytics. Once again we captured the AMA session to […]

On May 22, StartupSac held another Happy Hour event where dozens turned out to the office of the law firm Buchalter, downtown for our founder AMA with guest entrepreneur Jon Coss, founder and CEO of Pondera Solutions.In 2017, this Sacramento-based govtech startup closed on an eight-figure equity deal and won the Sacramento Innovation Award in […]

On April 18, StartupSac held another Happy Hour event where dozens turned out at Hot Italian in Midtown for our founder AMA with guest entrepreneur Beth Dodson, co-founder of Homezada. We captured that AMA session so  we could share it with the broader startup community. Amidst the cacophony and at times raucous celebrations of a children’s birthday […]

In this episode of the Sacramento Startup Scene Roundup Laura Good and I rundown what happened in the Sacramento region startup community since the last episode, including: TechEdge on March 22 The final round and winner of the 3rd Annual Kings Capitalize Pitch contest StartupSac Happy Hour in Davis with John Bissell Tech Futures Group, […]

On March 27, StartupSac took our monthly Happy Hour event on a road trip to Davis where dozens turned out for our founder AMA with guest entrepreneur John Bissell, cofounder of Origin Materials. Once again we captured that AMA session so  we could share it with the broader startup community. In this episode you can […]

In this episode of the Sacramento Startup Scene Roundup Laura Good and I cover what has happened in the Sacramento startup community over the last few weeks, including: 2 Startup Weekends StartupSac Happy Hour with Dermveda cofounder Venita Sivamani Kings Capitalize Semi-finals pitch day We also take a look forward at what’s coming up, including: […]

At the Startup Grind Sacramento event on January 9, Tracy Saville, led a panel discussion consisting of the graduating 2017 FourthWave (a Sacramento startup program focused on scaling female-led technology companies committed to conscious leadership and inclusion as a path to higher value) cohort of female founders. Learn about the challenges and lessons they learned during […]

One of the programs we run at StartupSac is a monthly AMA mentoring and networking event with an entrepreneur  answering questions from the audience. In this episode, Venita Sivamani, Cofounder of Dermveda, fields questions from the audience about entrepreneurship and her startup.

In this episode of the Sacramento Startup Scene Roundup I cover what happened at StartupSac Happy Hour with Brandon Salzberg on January 31, the Aggie Innovation and Startup Symposium on February 8, Startup Weekend Women on February 9 – 11 as well as upcoming events and happenings in the Sacramento region startup community.

In the opening keynote address at the Aggie Innovation and Startup Symposium, Lokesh Sikaria from Moneta Ventures provided an overview of the Sacramento region’s innovation and startup ecosystem along with a primer on venture capital and the outlook and trends for startups in our region.

TheUC Davis STEM Strategies Group hosted the Aggie Innovation & Startup Symposium at UC Davis on February 8, 2018 to help students learn about career opportunities in entrepreneurship. In an afternoon panel discussion, Mariah Lichtenstern led the discussion with panelists Venita Sivamani, Anh Tran, and Kimmy Paluch around the theme,  Creating a New Normal: Increasing Diversity in […]

In this episode of the StartupSac podcast, Laura Good and I visit, CoWo Campus, a new coworking space opening soon, and chat about upcoming events in the startup community in the coming weeks and about what we hope to see in the startup community this year. In the episode, we mention several upcoming events. Links […]

Hey everyone! Happy New Year and welcome back to the StartupSac podcast. It’s been awhile since we’ve released an episode. This episode is all about why we’ve been on hiatus and updates on what to expect from the podcast in 2018. Also a big shout out and thanks to SacTown Magazine for including us in their […]

Ryan MacCarthy has developed an innovative way to tap into social media signals and engage with consumers on behalf of brands to win customers for brands right when the customer is expressing a need. In this episode, learn about how Ryan’s startup KickFactory allows brands to reach customers even before they start shopping by engaging […]

Judging for the second annual Sacramento Region Innovation Awards wrapped up recently and many of the judges were winners from last year’s Innovation Awards, including last year’s winner in the medical and health technology category, Evolve Biosystems. Evolve Biosystems is a privately held microbiome company dedicated to developing the next generation of products to establish, […]

Valley Extends is a Full Service Sales and Marketing Accelerator that helps Companies grow, by offering services that impact operations such as – hiring, sales and marketing, back office, payroll and human resources – with 35 companies in their program with plans to grow that number. I met with Clayton at Valley Extends to learn […]

In just a few short years, Moneta Ventues has become Sacramento’s largest venture capital firm. In this episode of the StartupSac podcast I chat with Sabya Das, Associate Partner at Moneta whose task is to evaluate new opportunities for investment and to assist Moneta’s portfolio companies in a variety of operational roles.  I met with Sabya […]

Kim Box, President and CEO at Gatekeeper Innovation, worked at HP for 29 years, leading a billion dollar organization as an executive of IT services. Eight years ago she decided to take a change in direction and doing something more purposeful that made an impact in the world. She wrote a book on diversity an […]

Le Thuy Vuong is the founder and CEO of The Redmelon Company, formerly known as Fishrock Laboratories. As part of her PhD thesis she discovered that a fruit indigenous to her native country of Vietnam has the potential to help tackle Vitamin A deficiency in developing countries. In this episode, I sat down with Le […]

Inspired by Victor Patton’s recent article in the Sacramento Business Journal on diversity, I had the idea to organize a roundtable discussion on diversity for the StartupSac podcast. The main purpose in my mind was to get a group of Black entrepreneurs together in the studio to discuss the issue of diversity from their perspective […]