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The Startup Tri-Valley Podcast, hosted by i-GATE Innovation Hub Executive Director Yolanda Fintschenko, PhD, and other co-hosts from the Tri-Valley Startup Ecosystem, features in-depth conversations with the leaders making the Bay Area’s Tri-Valley region the go-to ecosystem for science-based startups. Listeners can expect to hear from local founders, investors, and other domain experts whose insight can help science-based companies go from startup to scale.
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Host Yolanda Fintschenko, executive director of Daybreak Labs and i-GATE Innovation Hub, and guest co-host Hazel Wetherford, Deputy City Manager for the City of Dublin, talk with Chun Jiang, CEO and co-founder of Monterey AI, an early stage startup located in Dublin, CA. Co-founders Chun Jiang and Ben Kramer joined Y Combinator Summer 2022. During the batch, Monterey AI started with a simple generative documentation tool for the product team. It became clear there was a bigger opportuni...
Host Yolanda Fintschenko, executive director of Daybreak Labs and i-GATE Innovation Hub, and guest co-host Katie Marcel, CEO of the Innovation Tri-Valley Leadership Group (ITV), talk with Drew Wong, PhD, a staff scientist and materials engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), about his work on the Roads to Removal Report, a new nationwide report on carbon dioxiode removal options that is being shared broadly by the Livermore Lab Foundation...
Host Yolanda Fintschenko, executive director of Daybreak Labs and i-GATE Innovation Hub, and guest co-host Katie Marcel, CEO of the Innovation Tri-Valley Leadership Group (ITV), discuss the entrepreneurial journey of 16-year old award-winning innovator, Krisha Singhani, a 2023 ITV Dreammakers and Risktakers award winner. Krisha shares her journey of creating 'FEmale, an innovative device for non-invasively detecting menstruation-induced anemia in women (watch the video of ho...
In this episode, host Yolanda Fintschenko, executive director of Daybreak Labs and i-GATE Innovation Hub, talks with Jamil Abo-Shaeer, atomic physicist, co-founder and CEO of Tri-Valley startup, Vector Atomic.Jamil is focused on transforming abstract research into practical devices. With 20+ years of research and development (R&D) experience within industry, government, and academia, he is leading Vector Atomic to productize the advanced quantum atomic clock technology that has only...
Host Yolanda Fintschenko, executive director of Daybreak Labs and i-GATE Innovation Hub, talks with plasma physicist, Tammy Ma, PhD, Lead of the Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) Institutional Initiative at Lawrence Livermore National Labs (LLNL). Tammy is an experimental laser-plasma physicist at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the LLNL. Besides doing experiments on the world’s largest, most energetic laser in pursuit of thermonuclear fusion, her current role also encompasses ...
Host Yolanda Fintschenko, executive director of Daybreak Labs and i-GATE Innovation Hub, talks with the founder and CTO of Buzzkill Labs, George Farquar, and President and CEO, Jeff Heimburger. Buzzkill Labs, a Daybreak Labs alum, is a sensor company that is modernizing drug testing in a legalized world. Their first product is a rapid saliva test for THC. This test is sorely needed by employers who need to make sure prospective and existing employees are "drug-free" enough t...
Co-hosts Yolanda Fintschenko (Startup Tri-Valley) and Hazel Wetherford ( Economic Development Director,City of Dublin) talk with Saurabh Kumar, CEO and co-founder of Tri-Valley company Rezolve.ai located in Dublin, CA. Rezolve.ai enterprise software provides internal help desk that uses proprietary AI to seamlessly connect employees to company information, services, and tools that they need to do their jobs at a fraction of the cost of existing solutions. Recentl...
Co-hosts Yolanda Fintschenko (Startup Tri-Valley) and Lynn Naylor (Innovation Tri-Valley Leadership Group) finish up the Startup Tri-Valley #GameChangers2022 podcast series with a conversation with Mike Fitzsimmons, CEO and co-founder of Crosschq, the company who has pioneered Human Intelligence Hiring™, the next essential software category for building great companies and optimizing quality of hire. Crosschq is backed by GGV, Bessemer, Tiger Global, Rocketship, SAP, Okta and Salesforce...
Co-hosts Yolanda Fintschenko (Startup Tri-Valley) and Lynn Naylor (Innovation Tri-Valley Leadership Group) continue the Startup Tri-Valley #GameChangers podcast series with a conversation with IrisVision CEO and co-founder, Ammad Khan. Videos illustrating the transformational power of IrisVision for people with low vision on their YouTube channel that includes a powerful user reaction video you don 't want to miss. In October of 2022, Ammad Khan also become the Fo...
Startup Tri-Valley is thrilled to present the co-founders of Avestria VC, a Raydiant Oximetry early stage investor, and Tri-Valley-adjacent residents. Their thesis is to focus on the unseen opportunity presented by female founders in healthcare and by entrepreneurs focused on developing solutions for women's health. Our conversation was so rich with information for Tri-Valley founders, we kept rolling for over an hour. As a result, we bring you not one, but two parts so you can ex...
Startup Tri-Valley is thrilled to present the co-founders of Avestria VC, a Raydiant Oximetry early stage investor, and Tri-Valley-adjacent residents. Their thesis is to focus on the unseen opportunity presented by female founders in healthcare and by entrepreneurs focused on developing solutions for women's health. Our conversation was so rich with information for Tri-Valley founders, we kept rolling for over an hour. As a result, we bring you not one, but two parts so you can ex...
Co-hosts Yolanda Fintschenko (Startup Tri-Valley) and Lynn Naylor (Innovation Tri-Valley Leadership Group) continue the Startup Tri-Valley #GameChangers podcast series with a conversation with two leaders from Raydiant Oximetry , a #GameChangers 2022 award-winning company, Neil Ray, MD, Founder and CEO and Russ DeLonzor, President and COO. The Raydiant Oximetry team is dedicated to improving women's and fetal health by preventing unnecessary Caesarian sections with a more acc...
Co-hosts Yolanda Fintschenko (Startup Tri-Valley) and Lynn Naylor (Innovation Tri-Valley Leadership Group) open the Startup Tri-Valley #GameChangers podcast series with a conversation with one of the #GameChangers 2022 award winners, Janelle Wang, CEO and Co-Founder of ACTON. ACTON is a Tri-Valley-based, Micro Mobility As A Service (MaaS) solution provider and industry leader driving clean energy solutions to bridge the "last mile."Janelle is an Industrial Designer turned Entrepren...
Co-hosts Brandon Cardwell (i-Gate Innovation Hub and Startup Tri-Valley) and Yolanda Fintschenko (Co-founder of FounderTraction, LLC and the East Bay Bio Network), talk to Lynn Wallace Naylor, CEO of the Innovation Tri-Valley Leadership Group (ITV). With her passion for brand building and placemaking, Lynn has positioned the Tri-Valley as The Heart of California Innovation. Her experience across the corporate, start-up, public-private and philanthropic sectors has enabled her...
Host Brandon Cardwell speaks with Luis Dussan, the founder, CTO, and board member of AEye, Inc., LIDAR technology company that develops autonomous sensor platforms for the advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous vehicle markets. Startup Tri-Valley is particularly proud to note that AEye was the first company to be incubated by i-GATE Innovation Hub in Livermore and in the Tri-Valley. Since it began in 2013, AEye has grown to a company of more than 150 people. When ...
Host Brandon Cardwell speaks with Kim Budil, lab director for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Andy McIlroy, associate labs director for Sandia National Laboratory and leader of the California site, about the mission of the national labs and how that intersects with fueling the local innovation economy.
Host Brandon Cardwell speaks with Monarch Tractor Co-Founder and President, Mark Schwager about how the electric tractor startup is turning Livermore into ground zero of the food and agriculture revolution. Mark has over a decade of experience leading manufacturing organizations and has developed over 16 million square feet of manufacturing space. Mark previously served as head of the Tesla Gigafactory, leading the project from concept phase to construction. He also led the operations plannin...
Host Brandon Cardwell is joined by Erik Malmstrom, the CEO of SafeTraces, a Bay Area-based technology company and leader in DNA-enabled diagnostic solutions for indoor air quality. Erik is a successful and experienced thought leader driven to create a better, safer, more sustainable world. Previously, he held senior roles at the Office of the US Trade Representative, Farmer’s Business Network, and Cargill. He is also a co-founder of CrossBoundary, a leading frontier market investment advisor,...
Host Brandon Cardwell talks to Lauren Moone, Executive VP, Mirador Capital Partners, and Don Garman, Founder & CIO, Mirador Capital Partners and Co-Founder, Tri-Valley Ventures about why the Tri-Valley economy is thriving, outperforming competitors, and how to keep it that way.
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