Entries by Karina Saravia-Butler

Quinn Morgan’s Startup Story

Quinn Morgan is a UC Davis Alumni, CEO and Co-founder of Workona Inc.  Morgan’s Linkedin description on Workona Inc.: “We transform your browser into a professional work tool that is far more capable of the heavy workloads we’re all doing in it. See how we’re reimagining work in the cloud at workona.com.”

Joy Fan’s Startup Story

Joy’s Linkedin: Joy Fan is a serial tech entrepreneur, operator, and urbanist — democratizing access to affordable real estate. She spent her early career in environmental design, brand marketing, and asset management and has since disrupted the traditional commercial lease model into license agreements, popularized global strategy of pop-ups as a founding member of Storefront […]

Michael Hurlston’s Startup Story

Michael Hurlston has been a director and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Synaptics since August 2019. Synaptics (Nasdaq: SYNA) is changing the way humans engage with connected devices and data, engineering exceptional experiences throughout the home, at work, in the car and on the go. Synaptics is the partner of choice for the […]

Helen Corey’s Startup Story

Helen Corey is a Partner and Co-Founder at 8 Dimension Ventures, where she supports and provide capital to people striving to improve people and planet. Helen has worked in and with companies of all sizes around strategy development, business development, finance, operations, rightsizing, capital sourcing, negotiations, acquisitions, mergers & liquidations. Get inspired by the startup […]

Geoff Davis’s Startup Story

Geoff Davis is the CEO at Sorenson Impact. He creates companies & global systems that help people live better and help the planet, and has a background in implementing impact investment strategies, impact measurement, emerging markets, financial services, education, venture & private equity. Get inspired by the startup stories of founders and investors in the […]

Seana Day’s Startup Story

Seana Day is a partner at Culterra Capital, which provides strategic and transaction advisory services across the Agriculture, Supply Chain and Food Tech sectors. She is also a Venture Partner at Better Food Ventures, exclusively investing in early stage companies that are leveraging information and communications technology to transform and strengthen the food and agriculture […]

G Radhakrishnan’s Startup Story

As Director Venture Capital for Micron’s $100M AI Fund, Gayathri is actively investing in startups that apply AI to solve critical problems in the areas of Manufacturing, Healthcare and Automotive.  She brings over 20 years of multi-disciplinary experience across product management, product marketing, corporate strategy, M&A and venture investments in large Fortune 500 companies such […]

Jamie Rodota’s Startup Story

Jamie Rodota is currently the Senior Director of Strategy for Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, where he invests catalytic capital in the most promising seed stage companies located outside of Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston. Get inspired by the startup stories of founders and investors in the UC Davis Student Startup […]