Startup Hunter

Helixworks DNA Storage for Blockchain. Nimesh Pinnamaneni

Helixworks is a biotechnology startup that uses secure DNA storage to verify food and pharmaceuticals for the blockchain. Other applications include storing digital information on DNA https://helix.works/ Nimesh Pinnamaneni started as a researcher, but lab life was not for him as the entrepreneurial bug bit. Helixworks is bringing to market DNA biotech that works in the supply chain to verify items to prevent fraud and improve quality. Audio: https://anchor.fm/startuphunter...

SummitSync: Enterprise Meeting Automation. Al Torres

Sales and Marketing at big business can be inefficient. If you send a team of 40 to a conference at a cost of $100k what is your ROI? SummitSync automates meeting scheduling with deep integration with Salesforce, Microsoft, Google. We're talking big savings, big efficiencies. https://www.summitsync.com/ After working in the corporate world straight out of college, Al Torres knew that big company life was not for him. So he quit and started an executive coaching lifestyle business. He got sucked ...

Ultimate Rideshare Driver Startup: Hailify. Nick Bhashyam

Hailify is startup saving Uber & Lyft drivers time and money. This is one app to rule them all. Possibly expanding to Uber Eats & Grubhub. https://www.drivehailify.com/ Nick Bhashyam raised millions of dollars as a college student for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. Then he went to medical school, but driving for Uber and Lyft to make side money, he got annoyed there was no easy way to take full advantage of all the services at the same time. Thus Hailify, which makes it as easy as pos...

My Bag Check: On Demand Bag & Coat Check. Micah Lewis

Press a button, and your bag can follow you to the airport while you get important things done hassle free. My Bag Check is an on demand bag and coat check, last mile delivery service. Micah Lewis began as a lawn mower boss with a crew of of guys when he was 10 years old. Then he started a profitable advertising network in Tampa with screens he bought on ebay. Finally, after 15 years in b2b sales, he had an ah hah moment when he was wasting hours bringing his bags home only to miss important occ...

Herd: Blockchain Education Startup, CEO Jason Tissera

Jason Tissera began mowing lawns, shoveling snow and DJ'ing, but quickly started a career in Business Development with SAP. After a few years he joined a few startups and gained confidence in coding by teaching himself ios and fullstack. His thesis is that businesses want to educate customers or employees on blockchain, and thus, the crafty startup https://www.getherd.app/ was born Video:http://startuphunter.co...

Gesture: "Happiness Delivered" On-Demand Gifting.

Gesture https://www.yourgesture.com/ is a thoughtful gift delivery service only in NYC for now. You can order Flowers, Wine and most importantly attach a thoughtful, handwritten message to it. Deliveries under 30 minutes typically. Ben Labra hustled his way to NYC after owning two KFC's and then launching a linked-in for highschool students. Now he has a large team of developers and couriers and is building an on-demand service from the ground up in NYC. Audio: https://anchor.fm/startuphunter...

Highwire to Harvard: Agnes Intelligence: Legal/Media Artificial Intelligence. John H. Snyder

John H. Snyder began farming sheep and performing the highwire act in a circus before working his way into Harvard law school and running his own practice. Now he is starting an Artificial Intelligence company named Agnes Intelligence. The focus is on legal document discovery: making sense of 20,000 emails for relevant topics. And Agnes is also targeting the media space providing more relevant searches for podcasts and video transcription. https://www.agnesintel.com Video: http://startuphunter.c...

Wethos: Meaningful Work. Rachel Renock

Wethos started as an upwork for non-profits: a two sided marketplace connecting people with skills like graphic design, coding or marketing to non-profits. Rachel Renock started selling hot dogs on her front yard, and then landed a career in NYC advertising on the Covergirl campaign. She is a problem solver, and in freelancing for non-profits on the side, she saw an overwhelming demand for skills that she did not have like coding. So she and her cofounders saved up 6 months of rent.....and hustl...

The Story of Foursquare: Dennis Crowley

Over the last 20 years, Dennis has focused on basically one thing: improve the ways people move through and interact with cities. Moving to New York in 1998, he was laid off in the dotcom bubble, he learned how to code himself, and over the next few years he kept adapting his ideas to the bleeding edge of tech. Before iPhones existed, he put his friend-populated cityguide "Dodgeball" on the wireless web eventually selling the company to Google and leaving after it was shut down. Unable to give u...

Christian Balevski: Knowledgine

Christian is at the start of his entrepreneurial journey with lots of great practice behind him. He taught himself how to code, and now is executing the early stages of an educational platform named Knowledgine designed to level the playing field and provide access to audio lectures. http://Knowledgine.com Video at http://startuphunter.co

Luci Light & MPOWERD Founder & CEO John Salzinger & Seungah Jeong

From NYC event promoter to fashion photographer to network television executive producer, John Salzinger visited Haiti after the earthquake and was compelled to find the single most effective tool to build capacity cheaply....thus the Lucee Light was born which gave way to the MPOWERED a brand of lights that focuses on solar in the consumer space. Seungah Jeong, an established entrepreneur in her own right felt unfulfilled in the beauty industry and finally found the company of her dreams in MPO...

7 Figure Non Profit Growth with Rhea Wong

From Eldest Sister to Editor in Chief to her first Executive Director Role at 26, Rhea grew a non-profit serving low-income children from 200k a year over 10x to a multimillion dollar a year organization. http://startuphunter.co

Mornee Sherry, Serial Entrepreneur, Former CEO LumeCube

I take a walk with Mornee Sherry the former CEO of Lume Cube as he shares his story moving from Africa, The Marines, a strong history of Sales and finally building the successful light and Brand of Lume Cube Video Available at http://startuphunter.co

Sires Crown Eyewear

I sit down with CJ Thomason of Sires Crown Eyewear https://www.sireseyewear.com/ which started in his garage 12 years ago and is now blazing the way with innovative and super creative designs all over the world.

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