Sacramento Startups Podcast

An interview with Mathew Magno, co-founder of JAPA, a Sacramento-based technology startup, JAPA delivers real-time parking availability to drivers and enhanced parking analytics to parking lot owners/management.

In January StartupSac Happy Hour returned after a break in December, kicking off our fourth year of Happy Hour events. For this event, we welcomed Zennify co-founder and CEO, Manvir Sandhu. In this podcast episode, Manvir tells the origin story of Zennify, and how they’ve become one of the fastest growing tech startups in the […]

Our October StartupSac Happy Hour featured a panel of three great veteran entrepreneurs — Kevin Kane, Beth Dodson, and John Bodrozic — who came out to share their experiences and expertise with the audience. In this podcast episode, they share their entrepreneurial journey and field questions from the audience about running a successful, high-growth startup. […]

Sedale Turbovsky is a serial startup founder in the Sacramento startup community. His latest venture, Egeria Research, has the potential to help other startups with their funding needs by making it easier to identify, find, and apply for grant opportunities. I met up with Sedale at his office at Granite City Coworking in Folsom to […]

Wyatt Dike is the founder of VertX Advertising, an early stage startup in the Sacramento region at the intersection of advertising and health-positive impact. They partner with public transit agencies and install their pathogen-reducing standing passenger handles that are supported by advertising into city’s fleet. Wyatt was the winner of StartupSac’s recent StartupSac Warm-Up Pitch […]

Our June StartupSac Happy Hour featured  another great veteran entrepreneur  — Jeremy Perkins, Founder and CEO of Precision Medical Products — who came out to share his experiences and expertise with the audience. In this podcast episode, Jeremy shares his entrepreneurial journey and fields questions from the audience about running a successful, high-growth startup. Check […]

Christine Sison had a busy life running a dental practice in Sacramento. One of the headaches she often experienced was finding talent affordably and quickly that was appropriate for her office. As many startup founders do, she thought there had to be a better way and came up with an idea to create a dental-specific […]

Our May StartupSac Happy Hour featured Sacramento serial entrepreneur, Sonny Mayugba. In addition to his current role as Chief Marketing Officer of Waitr, Sonny is the founder of several local restaurants and has a long history in the local startup community having launched several ventures over the years. In this podcast episode, Sonny shares his […]

Our April StartupSac Happy Hour featured Barb DeHart, a startup advisor, investor, and co-founder & CEO of Sama Learning, virtual reality learning platform that recently was awarded “Best Pitch” by a panel of judges at the Capital Region ARVR Accelerator Demo Day. Barb shared her experience and insights as she fielded a range of questions […]

For this episode of the Sacramento Startups Podcast I met up with David Howie, who is the founder of Tellus Title. They’ve designed a new approach to real estate utilizing Blockchain technology, believing that the industry will benefit from blockchain and reduce title insurance premiums by 30%, saving U.S. consumers 4 Billion per year. David […]

StartupSac Happy Hour returned to Sacramento on March 26 at Hot Italian in Midtown. Our featured entrepreneurs fielding the questions this month were the co-founders of Webconnex,  Eric Knopf and John Russell. Webconnex is a SaaS platform for event registration, ticketing and fundraising. They have over 30,000 customers and have processed billions of dollars of […]

Last week we took a road trip to Folsom at Gaslight Co. for our February StartupSac Happy Hour. The Founder AMA featured Kevin Kane, CEO of Linkd, a project management, collaboration SaaS application serving Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) industry. Kevin fielded a range of startup questions from the audience. We recorded it once again […]

At our first StartupSac Happy Hour of 2019 we were lucky enough to welcome back Greg Connolly, Cofounder and CEO of Trifecta Systems. This was a great event and with the support of our food and drinks sponsors, KiwiTech and Witan Law, we demolished all previous attendance records with 65 people turning out to Hot Italian […]

Jocelyn Munroe, Founder and CEO of eHandoff, has developed an online patient note system for doctors and nurses for when they’re changing shifts or transferring patients that results in fewer communication errors and saving lives. She was also the winner at the StartupSac Warm-Up Pitch event recently. I met with Jocelyn at her office to […]

Earlier this month we held our 20th StartupSac Happy hour event. Since launching in January 2017, this event has provided a networking and mentoring platform for over 600 people in our community. Once again we had a great veteran entrepreneur come out to share her experience and expertise with the audience at Hot Italian Pizza […]

At the most recent StartupSac Happy Hour on October 23, over 40 people came out to the Monk’s Cellar in Roseville for an AMA (Ask Me Anything) with Riskalyze CEO and co-founder Aaron Klein. Riskalyze is an Auburn-based fintech startup that provides software as a service to financial advisors in the United States. They’ve raised a […]

For our most recent StartupSac Happy Hour AMA we partnered with Founder Institute Sacramento to bring in Founder Institute alum and CEO of Bay Area startup Evolute, Kristopher Francisco. Kristopher has innovated cloud computing, big data and storage architectures amongst the world’s most admired technology companies (Apple) and the world’s largest technology challenges (Chevron), so he has […]

Last week, our StartupSac Happy Hour was at Hot Italian in midtown again and featured Adam Kalsey. Adam has been an Internet entrepreneur since 1995, starting five companies, including a few acquisitions with the most recent one by Cisco where he now leads Developer Relations for Cisco Webex, helping startups reach enterprise with Webex APIs […]