Sacramento Startups Podcast

Twin brothers Dominic and Donte Morris wanted a better way to find pickup basketball games. Being entrepreneurial-minded they created a mobile app called Hoop Maps that allows users to find pickup basketball games near them. It’s an app that is already getting some pretty impressive media attention. I met up with Donte and Dominic in the podcast studio of […]

Sedale Turbovsky’s startup, carbonBLU, helps fleets analyze and explore options for improvement and optimization, without the costs associated with hiring technical staff and additional personnel. Their software empowers fleet managers to purchase the right vehicle for the job, integrate alternative fuels and advanced vehicle technology into fleet operations and even improve energy use at their facilities. […]

In the summer of 2015, the brother/sister cofounders of Trifecta saw an opportunity to address the obesity epidemic in the US with their idea to ship fully cooked organic meals directly to customers’ doorsteps. In this episode of the StartupSac podcast I met with Greg Connolly and his sister Elizabeth in their new podcast studio […]

Text to Ticket aims to help make roads safer by reducing distracted driving. Through their app, their company will pay users to submit videos that catch texting and driving in the act. They were recently accepted into 500 Startups batch 20 and were also selected as one of the four finalists in the Kings Capitalize […]

  For Benjamin Dorsinvil, growing up in Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the world, being entrepreneurial was not just about starting a business, but a necessity of survival. In his community, “there was always a sense of survival and a spirit of entrepreneurship that kept everyone alive in the gruesome face of poverty.” […]

Venita Sivamani is the founder and CEO of Sacramento startup Dermveda. Dermveda’s mission is to improve health from the skinside out. As an online skin care education resource, Dermveda allows people to create a personalized skin health experience on their website, Dermveda.com. In this chat, Venita talks about the origins of Dermveda, her focus on […]

Sonny Mayugba, serial entrepreneur, former budding rock star, skateboard & snowboard thrasher and publisher, founder and co-owner of Red Rabbit, founder of Requested, alum of Launch accelerator, and now CMO of Waitr spent an hour and half answering all kinds of questions from Sacramento startup founders and entrepreneurs at the inaugural StartupSac Happy Hour at […]

Arya Rashid from Sacramento cleantech startup Tenkiv chats about Tenkiv’s mission to democratize sustainable water and energy access, their current crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter and the clean tech industry in Sacramento. Subscribe to the StartupSac podcast on iTunes

Gabriel Gutierrez is the founder of Nascent games and the head of the Sacramento chapter of IGDA, the International Game Developers Association. I sat down with Gabriel at CoinOp Game Room in downtown Sacramento to talk about Nascent Games and the game development community in Sacramento, all set to a soundtrack of rock music and […]

In this episode of the StartupSac podcast I chat with Mike Hart, President and CEO of Sierra Energy and founder of Davis accelerator Area 52 about Area 52, Sierra Energy, the Sacramento region as a green and clean tech hub, as well as UC Davis’s Big Bang! program. Subscribe to the StartupSac podcast on iTunes

Nathan Allshouse, an avid computer game fan, started developing his first game after getting hooked up with the local chapter of IGDA. He got his game to a point where he needed some business help and that inspired the idea of  his startup Square One Clubs. Square One Clubs is a software and game developer […]

Like many entrepreneurs, the inspiration for Vitaliy Merkulov’s startup came from a need to solve a problem he had experienced. Vitaliy, a landlord, went through a very costly process of evicting a tenant. That problem motivated him to start asking around for better ways to predict bad tenants and not finding a solution, he launched […]

Humans, we’re complicated beings even as just individuals in isolation. Factor in interactions with family, friends, coworkers, and others with differing values, beliefs, and biases (conscious or unconscious) and you’ve got an incredibly complex tangle. It’s no wonder that we live in such tumultuous, contentious times. But imagine if we had a way to augment […]

Every year Americans throw away more than 74 billion pounds of food. According to Brianna McGuire, Founder of Davis startup Foodfully, this is mostly because they have either forgotten about what food items they had or they’re not really sure how to cook something they know they have. She and her team have developed an […]

I sat down with Sean Barry and his fellow team members from the new Sacramento startup GoHalfway, Donte Morris and Drew Peterson to chat about their experience of Startup Weekend and the challenges and rewards they’re seeing as the continue to pursue the project on a part time basis. Subscribe to the StartupSac podcast on iTunes

Square Root Academy, trains the next generation of engineers and scientists coming from underserved areas in the very communities this demographic resides in. It ensures that this program is accessible to those who need it most at no cost at all to the students using a hands on STEM-based curriculum, in-class mentors connect the mathematical […]

In his book, ‘The Lean Startup,’ Eric Ries states, “I’ve come to believe that learning is the essential unit of progress for startups.” The concepts of learning in general as well as validated learning as a core metric for startups in particular, was the common thread in the conversation I had with Sacramento startup founder […]

The overarching problem in the fitness industry is how disjointed and antiquated it is from a business management perspective. Businesses of various sizes in the fitness industry are forced to use cobbled together solutions to meet their business needs. Sacramento startup GymHit is the only integrated communication, booking, billing and marketing platform designed specifically for […]

Freelancers spend too much time and money hacking together independent apps to manage the administrative duties of business. One local startup, Octain, is building an integrated, automated book-to-bill platform that helps consultants save time, earn more money and optimize their lives. I sat down with Octain’s two female founders, Clare Price and Lacye Martini to […]

I had a chance after 1 Million Cups event to sit down with Thomas Hall, Executive Director of CleanStart, and chat about the CleanStart program. CleanStart is accelerating the development of clean technology ventures within the Greater Sacramento Region. Subscribe to the StartupSac podcast on iTunes