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Startup Stories Podcast

The UC Davis Student Startup Center’s Startup Stories Podcast features leading entrepreneurs, from startup CEOs to investors!

Podcast Episodes

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 stories of founders and investors in the UC Davis Student Startup Center community. Learn what got them going and what keeps them motivated. Collect tips to make your startup journey as successful as possible.

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 UC Davis Student Startup Center community. Learn what got them going and what keeps them motivated. Collect tips to make your startup journey as successful as possible.

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 sectors. Seana leads the firm’s agtech sector thesis.

Get inspired by the startup stories of founders and investors in the UC Davis Student Startup Center community. Learn what got them going and what keeps them motivated. Collect tips to make your startup journey as successful as possible.

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 as Dell and Corning and in startups. She has also worked as an early stage investor at Earlybird Venture Capital, a premier European venture capital fund based in Germany.

Get inspired by the startup stories of founders and investors in the UC Davis Student Startup Center community. Learn what got them going and what keeps them motivated. Collect tips to make your startup journey as successful as possible.

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 Center community. Learn what got them going and what keeps them motivated. Collect tips to make your startup journey as successful as possible.

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