Podcast

This week on the podcast we say so long to John Gavigan as he ends his tenure as Executive Director of 43North and look back at his time here and look ahead.

This week on the podcast we talk with Pitchbook analyst Dylan Cox. Dylan recently spoke at an Upstate Capital Association event and we, quite literally, grabbed him prior to heading to the airport in order to get a word with him about developments in venture and private equity dollars in Western New York.

This week on the podcast we talk to Dan about learning IT in high school, being eager to finish college because he was already working in IT at M&T Bank, leaving the comfortable job to dip his toe in startup life, directing the early team at Z80 labs and leaving the lab to cofound ACV Auctions.

The Design Innovation Garage is one the premiere coworking and event spaces, not only on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, in all of WNY.

We’re of course talking about Nick and Jon from Helm UX. They’ve been around since the early days of the blossoming Buffalo startup ecosystem and their design firm has played an integral role in designing UI and UX for startups like ACV Auctions, Sentient Science, Clearview Social and even established businesses like Basil Automotive and Independent Health.

The University at Buffalo along with startup incubators across WNY are coming together to provide early-stage startups with the resources they need get off the ground.

This week on the podcast we talk with Jim Regenor, Business Unit Director & Transformative Technologies at Moog Inc. Jim and his team are pioneering blockchain implementation so a future of customers being able to manufacture Moog certified parts anywhere around the world is just around the corner.

This week on the podcast we chat with Oscar Pedroso, co-founder of Thimble. Thimble is WNY’s most successful project on Kickstarter (in WNY) to date. How did they grow the company from an idea to crowdsourced, to now one of the most successful maker boxes on the market today?

This week on the podcast we talk with Derrick about the entrepreneurial spirit, how Graspie came to be, why Buffalo and Buffalo as a blossoming ecosystem for minority entrepreneurs.

Angel investment is critical for startups in the early days. This week on Latitude we talk to Jack McGowan, Director of the WNY Venture Association and the Buffalo Angels – an angel investment consortium that funds early-stage startups.

From co-founding Startup Grind Buffalo to providing legal services to new startups, teaching entrepreneurship classes at the University At Buffalo, Matthew Pelkey is busy.

This week on the podcast we talk with Irfan about the process of leaving his life as a heart surgeon and starting Circuit Clinical, and how the Buffalo startup aims to scale and bring clinical trials to the masses.