Skip to content

Latitude Episode 97: Investing In Upstate And Women

Podcast

After 20 years in the financial industry, Sharon Weinberg joined NY Ventures, the investment division of empire state development.

After a couple of years as its managing director, Sharon moved on to found Blue Leaf Ventures with a colleague of hers, to spend time investing in startups in an overlooked industry.

This week on the Latitude, host Nate Benson chats with Sharon about the growth of startups in NY, what she looks for in a pitch and why technology in women’s reproductive health could be the next industry that could lead to successful startups and smart investment strategy.

Tags: Latitude

More blog posts

Photo of Brian Hirsch on directions podcast
Leaving Your Ego at the Door: Lessons from Startup Chaos With Brian Hirsch

 Leaving Your Ego at the Door: Lessons from Startup Chaos With Brian Hirsch

Photo of Andrew Goldner
Why Startups Fail at Sales (and How to Fix It) with Andrew Goldner

Andrew Goldner on Why Startups Fail at Sales (and How to Fix It)   Most founders don’t fail because they build bad products—they fail because they sell to the wrong people at the wrong time. On this episode of Latitude, we sat down with Andrew Goldner, CEO and co-founder of GrowthX, to talk about why

Secrets from Google’s IPO with Lise Buyer

From Google’s Secret IPO to Buffalo’s Grit: A Conversation with Lise   What happens when you mix Google, Wall Street, and a Playboy interview? You get one of the wildest IPO stories ever told. Lise Buyers, a proud Buffalonian turned tech investor, joined Latitude to spill the inside story of Google’s unconventional path to going

See All