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.

Sacramento Startups Podcast

Sacramento Startup Profile: JAPA Co-Founder Mathew Magno

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 […]

StartupSac Happy Hour AMA with Manvir Sandhu, Co-founder and CEO of Zennify

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. […]

StartupSac Happy Hour AMA with Kevin Kane, Beth Dodson, and John Bodrozic

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 […]

Sacramento Startup Profile: Humaxa Co-Founder Carolyn Peer

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 […]

Sacramento Startup Profile: RePurpose Energy Co-Founder & COO Ryan Barr

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 […]

Sacramento Startup Profile: Egeria Research Founder Sedale Turbovsky

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 […]

Sacramento Startup Profile: Founder of VertX Advertising, Wyatt Dike

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 […]

StartupSac Happy Hour AMA with Jeremy Perkins, Founder and CEO of Precision Medical Products

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 […]

Sacramento Startup Profile: Swiss Monkey Founder Christine Sison

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 […]

StartupSac Happy Hour AMA with Waitr CMO Sonny Mayugba

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 […]

StartupSac Happy Hour AMA with Sama Learning CEO and CoFounder Barb DeHart

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 […]

Sacramento Startup Profile: Tellus Title Founder David Howie

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 […]

Sacramento Startup Profile: HoopMaps Cofounder Donte Morris

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 […]

StartupSac Happy Hour AMA with Webconnex Co-founders Eric Knopf & John Russell

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 […]

StartupSac Happy Hour AMA with Kevin Kane, CEO of LinkD

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