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 […]

I first heard about HoopMaps, a mobile app that allows people to find pickup games in their area, in 2017 when I saw them pitch at a Kings Capitalize event. I loved the idea, along with the passion that co-founding twin brothers Donte and Dominic Morris brought to their startup venture. Over the course of […]

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 […]