Founder Friday: Rubens Mukunzi, Karibu News
Learn more about Rubens’ motivation to keep his journalistic dreams alive, and the impact he’s made on the immigrants and refugees of Buffalo by giving them a voice.
Founder Friday: Adam Lazar, Asarasi
Learn more about Asarasi’s groundbreaking accomplishments in the beverage industry, and how Adam and his team hope to encourage others to take part in this movement towards sustainability.
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Latitude Episode 22: A Startup Solution for a Food Desert
Food deserts are prevalent across the country and Buffalo is no exception. This week on the Latitude podcast, brought to you by KeyBank, we talk with Allison DeHonney, founder of Urban Fruits and Veggies. This urban farm startup started in a vacant lot on Buffalo’s east side and now has plans to expand into a
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Latitude Episode 21:The Entrepreneurial Rainforest
This week on the Latitude Podcast, brought to you KeyBank, we talk with David Colligan – partner at Colligan Law. David has a long career of helping startups and entrepreneurs in WNY getting their feet off the ground. As a founding member of the Buffalo Angels, he’s invested in startups, as a member of the
Founder Friday: Bret Blakely & Steve Coulton, OnCore Golf
OnCore Golf is on a mission to improve everyone’s golf game, from the pros down to the folks hitting up their local course for a business outing.
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Latitude Episode 20: On A Scale of One to Ten, What Do You Think Of Hardware?
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
Latitude Episode 19: From Brooklyn to Buffalo
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
Founder Friday: Pete Cimino, Lloyd
They got the people of Buffalo asking, “Where’s Lloyd?” Meet Pete Cimino, the founder of Lloyd Taco Trucks, Lloyd Taco Factory, and their newest endeavor, Churn Soft Serve.
Latitude Episode 18: Brewing Buffalo’s Comeback
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
Founder Friday: Tim Herzog, Flying Bison Brewing Company
In this week’s Founder Friday, we dive deeper into Buffalo’s thriving brewing industry with one of the breweries that started it all, Flying Bison Brewing Company.
Voiceitt Just Raised Another $2 Million. Now They Need Beta Testers.
Voiceitt, one of 43North’s 2015 winners, has been reaching some serious milestones recently and continuing their technology to be a voice for the voiceless. If you haven’t heard, Voiceitt is creating a voice recognition technology that can recognize particular pronunciations from users with speech language disorders and translate their statements into clear speech. Their technology
Latitude Episode 17: Investing In Upstate – A Venture Capitalist’s View
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