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. […]

Carolyn Peer is the founder of Sacramento startup, Humaxa. After spending more than 20 years in the HR industry watching organizations struggle getting to the root cause of employee retention issues, Carolyn and her team decided to do something about it. In the summer of 2017 the team launched Humaxa, an employee retention platform that […]

Ryan Barr is the cofounder of RePurpose Energy, a Sacramento area cleantech startup. RePurpose Energy reuses electric vehicle batteries to store solar energy. By offering low-cost energy storage and reducing battery waste, it aims to enable the transition to renewable energy and electric vehicles. Ryan walked away with second place at StartupSac’s Warm-Up Pitch competition […]

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 […]