This week on the podcast we talk with Jenae Pitts, co-founder of OneTen Capital. OneTen Captial is a newer venture firm in Buffalo solely devoted to investing in hardware based startups. They secured the seed round for Vader Systems, the startup who commercialized the first liquid metal 3D printer in the world. Jenae talks about
Su Sanni is a first generation immigrant from Brooklyn, NY. A former D1 athlete at Boston College. A former investment banker in NYC. What made him decide to start a company geared towards developing a platform to help nonprofit organizations raise money? In this week’s Latitude podcast, brought to you by KeyBank, Su talks
You may call Tim Herzog the Godfather of Buffalo’s brew scene. His startup in 2000 brought a brewery back to Buffalo proper for the first time since the 1970’s. Now, Flying Bison Brewery is brewing dozens of beers at its Seneca Street facility and is a staple at the majority of bars, festivals, and refrigerators
This week on the Latitude Podcast we chat with Noa Simmons, Executive Director at Upstate Venture Association of New York. Noa has spent time in Boston and Shanghai in her business career, more recently settling into the startup & entrepreneurship scene in the Hudson Valley. Noa gives us her insights into the role startups
Rubens Mukunzi arrived in Buffalo in 2013 after leaving Rwanda. As a journalist in a country without freedom of speech or freedom of the press, Rubens found himself at odds with the government. He grew up during one of the worst genocides in human history, started an education focused newsletter while still and high school
Well, actually it requires a boatload of work, but who doesn’t love a podcast title that plays on the title of a 1960’s Broadway musical? Anyway, this week on the podcast we’re talking with Somak Chattopadhyay, the managing partner at Armory Square Ventures. Somak talks about the type of startups his firm likes to invest in
What is it like seeing your work launched into space? This week on the podcast we talk with 43North winning co-founder Sourav Sinha from Oncolinx, the $1 million winner. In May, Oncolinx’s cancer treatment experiment was launched to the International Space Station where astronauts there will conduct tests that allow the Oncolinx team to
This week we sit down with CoachMePlus co-founder Kevin Dawidowicz, himself a serial entrepreneur, where he explains how CoachMePlus got started, the importance of the platform, and why teams’ wins and losses can’t be a metric for the platform’s success.
Christina Orsi was one of the architects of the Buffalo Billion plan that has sparked a renewed entrepreneurial spirit in Western New York. This week on the Latitude Podcast Christina talks us through some of the reasons why 43North was part of that plan, the other projects succeeding in that plan and how Buffalo is
Del Reid loves Buffalo sports. The co-founder of the “Bill Mafia” can be seen any given Sunday rooting for the Buffalo Bill, no matter their record. But Del had a greater purpose, helping those in need. In an age where people turn to crowdfunding to help offset medical expenses while their family battles cancer and
Who would have thought selling Japanese pro wrestling tapes on eBay as a teenager would lay the groundwork for Rob Hunter and carry his entrepreneurial spirit into his 30’s? But that’s exactly what happened. Wrestling tapes led to real estate, which led to franchising ice cream shops in Canada, which led to starting up HigherMe
10 million people in the United States and Europe have a difficulty communicated due to illnesses like ALS, Stroke and other medical conditions. Voiceitt, a Buffalo, NY and Israeli startup, has developed an advanced speech recognition technology currently being beta tested with users impacted with speech impairments. Voiceitt is a 2015 winner of the 43North