Innovate Arkansas

David Sanders, Director of Innovate Arkansas (IA) at Winrock interviews Vance Clement, CEO of Lineus Medical, and Spencer Jones, Founder & CTO of Lineus Medical. Lineus Medical is a medical device company focused on reducing IV complications for patients and providers. Their SafeBreak Vascular recently received FDA clearance and became the first product cleared in a new class of medical devices called “Patient Safety Disconnects.” David talked with Vance and Spencer about the clinical trial executed during the COVID-19 pandemic, growing their business in Arkansas, and the future of the company. Learn more about Lineus Medical here: https://lineusmed.com/ 

David Sanders, Director of Innovate Arkansas (IA) at Winrock interviews Foster Davis, Co-Founder & COO of BreachBits. BreachBits specializes in cybersecurity with predictions, monitoring, and risk assessment tools. Foster is an Arkansas native who has spent time around the world through military training and business but returned to his home state to build his BreachBits based on his strong belief that Arkansas understands business and technology. David and Foster talk about the unique approach to cybersecurity that Breachbits uses by starting with the question, “what would a hacker do?” Through automation and artificial intelligence, BreachBits emulates hacker techniques to assess business risk to cyber-attacks. Learn more about BreachBits here: https://www.breachbits.com/ 

David Sanders, Director of Innovate Arkansas (IA) at Winrock interviews TJ Sangam, CEO of SupplyPike. SupplyPike builds automated software to manage packaged goods stock at retailer locations and avoid deductions while identifying supply chain issues before they hit the bottom line. David and TJ talk about TJ’s journey to Arkansas (and why he stayed), the growing pains of launching a startup (and the mistakes he learned from), and his experience with the CEO Forum (and how it has become invaluable to his personal growth). Learn more about SupplyPike here: https://www.supplypike.com/ 

David Sanders, Director of Innovate Arkansas (IA) at Winrock interviews Noah Asher, CEO of Vascugenix. Vascugenix is a medical device company focused on developing innovative products to improve interventional cardiovascular procedures. David and Noah talk about the success that Noah has had in Arkansas and the challenges he faced launching a healthcare company in the midst of a global pandemic. Learn more about Vascugenix here: https://www.vascugenix.com/ 

David Sanders, Director of Innovate Arkansas (IA) at Winrock interviews April Roy, CEO and founder of FemPaq. FemPaq’s mission is to provide sustainable convenience to women’s health by providing a feminine emergency kit for those times when your period shows up. David and April talk about the process April went through to develop the product and where she envisions the product in the lives of consumers. Learn more about FemPaq here: https://fempaq.com/ 

David Sanders, Director of Innovate Arkansas (IA) at Winrock interviews Allyson Lewis, CEO and founder of The 7 Minute Life. The 7 Minute Life is a time management and productivity company with a mission to help busy people reconnect with their passion & get their schedules under control so they have more time for “the good stuff” in life. David and Allyson talk about the “secret sauce” to The 7 Minute Life, as well as Allyson’s experience as an entrepreneur and her work with Innovate Arkansas. Learn more about The 7 Minute Life here: https://the7minutelife.com/. 

David Sanders, Director of Innovate Arkansas (IA) at Winrock interviews Rodney Ferguson, President and CEO of Winrock International about the a new initiative called the Validation Fund. The Validation Fund is Arkansas’ first evergreen, not-for-profit fund dedicated to deploying early-stage awards to validation-stage Arkansas startup companies. To learn more about the Validation Fund, visit https://thevalidationfund.org. 

David Sanders, Director of Innovate Arkansas (IA) at Winrock interviews Kimberly Smith, CEO and founder of SILO Compliance. SILO Compliance is an anti-money laundering application that allows its clients to manage due diligence materials, as well as risk-rate and monitor its clients. David and Kimberly talk about the origins of the company, how SILO works with its clients (and all the exotic locations its clients are located), and lessons delivered by 2020. Learn more about SILO Compliance here: https://silocompliance.com/. 

David Sanders, Director of Innovate Arkansas (IA) at Winrock interviews Tracy Simpson, CEO and founder of Clinicpass. Clinicpass provides scheduling and expense reporting services to medical clinics. In this episode, David and Tracy talk about how Clinicpass supports both the medical clinics and the pharmaceutical reps, making the scheduling and sampling process efficient and safe. Learn more about Clinicpass.

David Sanders, Director of Innovate Arkansas (IA) at Winrock interviews Julie Allison, executive director of the Arkansas Fellowship. The Arkansas Fellowship works to connect promising local graduates with Arkansas-based companies for job opportunities with the goal to keep our graduates and promising business leaders at home in Arkansas. In this episode David and Julie talk about the Fellowship and the process for getting involved in the program. Learn more about the Arkansas Fellowship here https://www.arkansasfellowship.org/ and contact Julie with any questions at [email protected].