The DC Inno team is changing! But not without a visit from our friends over at our sister site Chicago Inno to talk about the similarities in Chicago and DC's tech hubs.

Upskill CEO and founder Brian Ballard talks about the company's rebrand from APX Labs and where he sees the future of wearable devices heading with the DC Inno crew.

NextGen Venture Partners Vice President Lisa Cuesta sits down with the DC Inno team to talk about NextGen's new fund and its pivot into venture capital from angel investing.

Airbnb's Mid-Atlantic policy director Will Burns chats with the DC Inno crew about the company's latest dispute with the D.C. government and its future in the metro area.

D.C. Deputy Mayor Brian Kenner joins the crew at DC Inno to talk about why D.C.’s innovation scene is stronger than ever and the District's presence at SXSW 2017.

Phone2Action CEO Ximena Hartsock, CTA Government Affairs Manager Michael Hayes and former Chief of Staff of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Vikrum Aiyer join a roundtable discussion about the H-1B visa program. The visas for high skilled workers are favored by the tech industry but the future of the program is up in the air under a new administration.

1776 campus manager Shahier Rahman stops by to talk about what the startup incubator will be doing in the coming year, and the Beat team talks about what you need to know for the Presidential Inauguration.

ICX Media is a D.C.-based startup founded by Mike Avon, an accomplished investor and former executive of Millennial Media. The company uses data to give performers, artists and social media stars a better understanding of their target audience and the best way to expand their online reach. The company was founded in late 2015, raised $2.5 million in early 2016, and recently launched their platform out of beta.

On this week's Beat Podcast, Giadha DeCarcer, founder and CEO of New Frontier Data joins to talk about her company's analysis of the legal marijuana industry. A former investment banker, she found no comprehensive industry reports on legal weed, so she saw an opening. Her "Bloomberg for Weed" startup is now raising money and looking at providing data on the nation's fastest-growing industry.

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