The Startup Tri-Valley Podcast

Host Yolanda Fintschenko , executive director of Daybreak Labs and i-GATE Innovation Hub , home of the Startup Tri-Valley (STV) Initiative , sits down with Cindy Gonzales, Brian Giera , and Caspar Donnison of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to discuss AI in Eight Pages , a recently released report designed to make artificial intelligence more understandable for broader audiences. In this wi...

Host Yolanda Fintschenko , Executive Director of Daybreak Labs and i-GATE Innovation Hub , home of the Startup Tri-Valley (STV) Initiative , sits down with Luis Martinez , PhD, Senior Venture Associate with Capital Factory and Daybreak Labs advisor. In this inspiring conversation, Luis shares his remarkable 25-year journey from a synthetic organic chemist at Harvard to a management consultant, uni...

Host Yolanda Fintschenko, Executive Director of Daybreak Labs and i-GATE Innovation Hub , home of the Startup Tri-Valley (STV) Initiative , sits down with Brian Wilson , Vice President of Office R&D and Clean Facilities for Colliers International and Commercial Real Estate Advisor for Daybreak Labs. In this compelling conversation, Brian shares his unique journey from practicing real estate an...

In this episode of the Startup Tri-Valley Podcast, hosts Yolanda Fintschenko , executive director of Daybreak Labs and i-GATE Innovation Hub , home of the Startup Tri-Valley (STV) Initiative . This episode features an in-depth conversation with Janelle Muranaka , COO and Co-founder of EazeBio and Operations Advisor for Daybreak Labs. It focuses on Muranaka's journey into the startup world, he...

In this episode of the Startup Tri-Valley Podcast, hosts Yolanda Fintschenko , executive director of Daybreak Labs and i-GATE Innovation Hub , home of the Startup Tri-Valley (STV) Initiative , and Lisa Adamos , Economic Development Manager for the City of Pleasanton ,  sit down with Sam Rad , Co-Founder and COO of LifeFoundry, Inc .  Sam, a chemical and biomolecular engineer with a Ph. D. from the...

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  Chiranjeevi Praveen Ikkurthy, CHCIO,   Interim IT Administrative Director for Stanford Health Care - Valley Health Care. IC was a panelist in our 2024 Tri-Valley AI Summit , and we are thrilled to welcome him to the...

In this episode of the Startup Tri-Valley Podcast, hosts Yolanda Fintschenko , executive director of Daybreak Labs and i-GATE Innovation Hub , home of the Startup Tri-Valley (STV) Initiative , and Lisa Adamos , Economic Development Manager for the City of Pleasanton ,  sit down with Reem Mahrat , a serial entrepreneur and founder of EazeBio . Reem shares her personal journey of battling autoimmune...

In this episode of the Startup Tri-Valley Podcast, hosts Yolanda Fintschenko , executive director of Daybreak Labs and i-GATE Innovation Hub , home of the Startup Tri-Valley (STV) Initiative , and Lisa Adamos , Economic Development Manager for the City of Pleasanton ,  sit down with Reem Mahrat , a serial entrepreneur and founder of EazeBio . Reem shares her inspiring journey from a chemical engin...

Host Yolanda Fintschenko, executive director of Daybreak Labs and i-GATE Innovation Hub , home of the Startup Tri-Valley (STV) Initiative ,  talks with Brian Spears, PhD , director of AI3 , the AI Innovation Incubator at  Lawrence Livermore National Labs (LLNL), and one of our 2024 Tri-Valley AI Summit panelists. Brian is passionate about developing deep learning for applied science, especially in...

Host Yolanda Fintschenko, executive director of Daybreak Labs and i-GATE Innovation Hub , home of the Startup Tri-Valley (STV) Initiative , speaks with Susan Houghton , Climate Resiliency and Carbon Management Portfolio Manager for the Livermore Lab Foundation (LLF) , and David (Dave) Metz , partner at FM3 Research , and Katie Marcel , CEO of the Innovation Tri-Valley Leadership Group (ITV) , abou...

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...

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 remov...

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 devic...

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 i...

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, mo...

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 employ...

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...

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...

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 vid...

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 k...

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 k...

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 improv...

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...

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 ac...

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. ...