Innovate Arkansas

David Sanders, Director of Innovate Arkansas (IA) at Winrock, interviews Jonathan Sasse, Chief Strategy Officer of Metova. Johnathan recently moved to Arkansas after working with and for companies in the state for the last ten years. David and Jonathan talk about the benefits of living in Arkansas plus what the future holds for technology and consumer expectations. Learn more about Metova here: https://metova.com/ 

David Sanders, Director of Innovate Arkansas (IA) at Winrock, interviews the founder and CEO  of Namida Lab, Omid  Moghadam, and Chief Scientific Officer and inventor of Auria, Anna Daily. Namida Lab has a mission to develop early screening tests for cancer. Their product Auria is the first home biological breast cancer screening test powered by tears. One in eight women will develop breast cancer with an increase in occurrences in women under 45 years old. Learn how you can get your Auria at-home test here: https://auria.care/ 

David Sanders, Director of Innovate Arkansas (IA) at Winrock, interviews the founders of FemHealth Founders: April Roy, Elizabeth Prenger, and Natalie Shew. Each of them is running their own startup company and have encountered many of the same pain points while building their own businesses in women's health and wellness. They met each other, compared notes, and decided to prevent similar hurdles for fellow fempreneurs who want to make a major impact in the femhealth space. Learn more about FemHealth Founders here:

https://femhealthfounders.com/ 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/femhealthfounders/ 

https://www.instagram.com/femhealthfounders/ 

David Sanders, Director of Innovate Arkansas (IA) at Winrock, interviews Mitch Brooks and Tristan Wilkerson, general partners at High Street Equity Partners. High Street Equity Partners is an early-stage venture firm that invests in post-revenue tech-enabled companies, focused on underrepresented founders from underrepresented geographies. Learn more about High Street Equity here:

https://www.highstreetequity.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/high-street-equity-partners/ 

https://www.instagram.com/highstreetequity/ 

David Sanders, Director of Innovate Arkansas (IA) at Winrock, interviews Josh Smith, IA Software Development Industry Fellow and CEO of Metova. David and Josh discuss advice for approaching development of a new app and the importance of focusing on customer discovery.

David Sanders, Director of Innovate Arkansas (IA) at Winrock, interviews Foster Davis, Co-Founder and COO of BreachBits, a provider of easy-to-understand cyber risk scores. Learn more about BreachBits here: https://www.breachbits.com/ 

David Sanders, Director of Innovate Arkansas (IA) at Winrock, interviews Alan Gardner, CEO of RxResults, a pharmacy risk management company that manages pharmacy costs for plan sponsors and its participants. RxResults uses evidence-based pharmacy risk management to meet the challenge of ensuring access to medications proven safe and effective while providing cost control. David and Alan talk about how RxResults started and examples of the work they do to save money on pharmacy costs. Learn more about RxResults here: https://rxresults.com/ 

David Sanders, Director of Innovate Arkansas (IA) at Winrock, interviews Edwin Ortiz, founder and CEO of Rejoicy, a platform where bakers, makers, movers and shakers can set up an e-commerce site in less than 10 minutes. David and Edwin talk about the early pivots in the business, the company’s participation in TechStars, and the SellNWA program they launched with Winrock International. Learn more about Rejoicy here: https://home.rejoicy.com/ 

David Sanders, Director of Innovate Arkansas (IA) at Winrock, interviews Joshua Stanley and Amanda Earhart of Cartwheel Studio, a Northwest Arkansas-based startup studio that focuses on B2B SaaS companies. Josh is the founder of Cartwheel and Amanda is the Entrepreneur-in-Residence. The startup studio model works to validate businesses and spin them out into sustainable companies. Amanda is currently leading PushKin, a communications tool for organizations with “undesked” employees. David, Josh, and Amanda discuss Arkansas as a place for growing businesses, why the startup studio model works, and the PushKin business opportunity. Learn more about Cartwheel here: https://www.cartwheel.studio/ 

David Sanders, Director of Innovate Arkansas (IA) at Winrock, interviews Mike Smith and Tim McFarland, leaders of the CEO Tech Forums for Innovate Arkansas clients. If you’re the busy leader of a dynamic organization, it’s hard to find the perfect time, environment, and people with whom to process the challenges only you can understand. Life can be lonely when you’re the one accountable. But that doesn’t mean you have to go it alone. The CEO Tech Forums bring together regional C-Suite leaders and business owners in ongoing monthly closed-door sessions, in which they can process each other’s issues and challenges, and share deep insights about business and the business climate in the region, the state and the world. Business competitors are not allowed in the same forum. A confidentiality agreement is signed at the beginning of each meeting. Deep trust occurs. Bonds form. A strong support network is built.