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43North Finals was 10/10!

43North Finals returned to Shea’s for its 10th year on October 10th! Entrepreneurs battled live on stage for a shot at $1 million each.

 

2024 Finals Recap

Congratulations to our 2024 Winners

CoverRight Inc

Fintech
Brooklyn, NY

FoodNerd

Food Tech
Buffalo, NY

HeronAI

AI
Cambridge, MA

Rarebird

Consumer Products
San Francisco, CA

Spiky.ai

AI
Boston, MA

Watch the Full 2024 Finals Show

Thank you to our Finals Judges

Candice Matthews Brackeen

General Partner, Lightship Capital; Founder & CEO, Lightship Foundation

Geoff Ralston

Co-creator, Rocketmail (later Yahoo! Mail); Chief Product Officer, Yahoo!; Former President, Y Combinator

Andrea Gouw

Head of Global Seller Marketing, eBay; Former Founder, ShopperSeeks.com; Former General Manager, Global Grind

Paul Ciriello

Founder, TD Capital Ventures and Fairhaven Capital Partners

Megann Vaughn Watters

VP of New Ventures & Strategic Alliances, Labcorp

THANK YOU

Semi-Finals Judges

Adam Phillips
Managing Director, TechStars

Adie Akuffo-Afful
New Initiatives, Black Girl Ventures

Alexandra Twyman
Vice President, Advantage Capital

Alice Vilma
Managing Director, Morgan Stanley

Anthony Santaro
Senior Associate, Armory Square Ventures

Arpan Ajmera
Principal, VU Fund

Claudius Taylor
Program Manager, gener8tor

David Brown
Managing Partner, Impellent Ventures

Elise King
Managing Director, American Heart Association

Erik Hammer
Managing Partner, Marquee Ventures

Heidi Diamond
Investor, Diamond Enterprises

Jennifer Tegan
Managing Director, New York Ventures

Kate Brodock
Partner, W Fund

Lauren Roberts
Senior Analyst, Atento Capital

Lokilani E Hunt
Executive of Ventures & Strategy, M&T Bank

Maggie Dorn
Chief Network Officer, Motley Fool Ventures

Michael Hoeksema
Vice President, Battery Ventures

Momo Bi
Partner, Watershed VC

Nancy Hilliker
Vice President, Revolution

Olivia Fleming
Partner, The Helm

Oscar Lee
Vice President, Avenue Growth Partners

Robinson Hernandez
Investor, Company Ventures

Salvatore Tirabassi
Managing Director, CFO Pro+Analytics

Scotty Lefkowitz
Senior Associate, Las Olas VC

Shashi Srikantan
Managing Director, Level Up Ventures (Hearst)

Thank you to our

2024 Finals Sponsors

Learn More About 43North

Our Program

Annual $5M investment in seed-stage startups through our immersive accelerator.

Our Portfolio

Our companies include a unicorn and a publicly traded company among the ranks.

Who We Are

43North is a startup accelerator that invests $5 million annually into growing Buffalo’s startup ecosystem.