Discover the best startup founders and talent in Buffalo & Rochester

247 people

Dave Young🏅 900

Taking electronics from Idea to Manufacture

Webster, United States

Hardware and firmware engineer, specializing in analog electronics. Co-Founder of BlueStamp Engineering to teach students how to create new things.

Tech

John Greco🏅 900

chaotic good

Buffalo, United States

Enjoy drawing monsters with my son, planting trees and helping founders

Business

Kit Mueller🏅 900

Serial Tummler

Pittsburgh, United States

Full-stack Entrepreneurial Community Builder with a demonstrated history of success in the software and creative industries. Skilled in Sales, Business Development, Marketing, Fundraising, and Investing.

Business Marketing Tech

Christine E.B. Howard🏅 900

CEO & Founder @EBHConsulting - Non-dilutive funding experts

Amherst, United States

Founder & CEO @EBHConsulting | 15+ years of experience with non-dilutive grant funding (e.g., SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF, etc.) and project/program evaluation where data collection, measurement, and analysis. 

Business

Doug Kellermeyer🏅 900

Software developer, aspiring ecosystem builder, and entrepreneur

Rochester, United States

Former recruiter turned software developer and ecosystem builder. I love building things that help others and create positive change. Don't hesitate to reach out if there's anything I can help with!

Business Design / UX Tech

mike cardus🏅 900

Developing organizations through evidence-based practices.

Buffalo, USA

Organization development and navigating complexity. 

Business

Alex Scalzo🏅 900

Co-Founder & COO of Empodio

Buffalo, United States

Experienced Consultant, Architect, and now Founder with a demonstrated history of working cross-industry to bring business process knowledge to a wide array of clientele.

Business Product Tech

Kate Huber🏅 900

Co-founder & COO at CloudInsyte

Buffalo, United States

Product nerd and entrepreneur. Currently building CloudInsyte in BUF. Proud member of the Female Founder Collective. Honored to be a 2019 BBF 30 Under 30 Winner. Board of Directors for Leading Women in Technology & Mama Mare Breast Cancer Foundation.

Business Product Tech

Mike Kozelsky🏅 900

Take chances. Make Mistakes. Get Messy.

Buffalo, United States

A software generalist that loves every part of making good software.

mikekozelsky.com

Product Tech

Greg Rosenberg🏅 900

I help founders go from concept to MVP quickly

Tonawanda, United States

Serial entrepreneur who loves building MVPs and prototypes for others. Full-time HR professional. Based in Buffalo, NY.

Business Product

John Kappel🏅 900

Create More, FAST

Buffalo, United States

Bootstrapped founder in additive manufacturing services, products, and technology.

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Jason Bartz🏅 900

Portfolio Manager, ACV Capital | Writer, Homescreens | Co-Founder, TakeItAll.io

Buffalo, United States

I’m the Portfolio Manager for ACV Capital, a subsidiary of ACV Auctions. Also, I publish a weekly newsletter where I interview interesting people in tech about how they use their phones, you should check it out @ www.homescreens.co

Business Design / UX Product

Ellie Price🏅 900Office hoursMentor

Business Development, Strategy & Operations at Iris Light Technologies

Chicago, United States

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ROC expat. Apprenticed with VC fund, some I-bankers, and launched new business unit in humanitarian crisis response. I can help you build pitches, financial models, strategy, coalitions and teams. Policy wonk, swimmer and lover of the Great Lakes.

Business

Michael Schroeder🏅 900

Board game publisher

Lewiston, United States

Husband, father, and creator. I am passionate about building consumer goods and playing games! I run a board game publishing startup and have experience in programming and tech. 

Product

Timothy Williamson🏅 900

COO at QTH 54 Inc.

Lackawanna, United States

Client relations and product development

Business Marketing Product

JP Bourget🏅 900Office hoursMentor

Cybersecurity / API / Business

Buffalo, United States

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Bootstrapped Syncurity (acquired by Swimlane). Raised $5.6M. Cybersecurity/Python/anything as code. Go to Market. Pitch Decks. Reach out!

devop/devsecops

Business Marketing Product Tech

Scott Falbo🏅 900

Co-Founder at LenderLogix

Buffalo, NY, United States

Co-founder of LenderLogix - a Buffalo, NY mortgage technology company. Prior to co-founding LenderLogix, I worked in technology leadership roles in government contracting, intelligent transportation, and health insurance. 

Business Tech

Jonathan Gorczyca🏅 900

Partner at Helm Experience & Design

Buffalo, United States

Working with entrepreneurs and innovative companies to build apps, design systems, MVPs, and prototypes. Helped raise over $300M for high-growth companies. Advocate for ideas, entrepreneurship, and digital transformation. Buffalo born and raised.

Business Design / UX Product Tech

Clark Dever🏅 900Office hoursMentor

Product Manager at Techstars

Buffalo, NY, United States

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Grisled serial Founder with a deep passion for mentoring and community building.  Hoping to leave a better world for the next generation by helping to build great companies with good people.

Business Design / UX Marketing Product Tech

Lena Levine🏅 850Office hoursMentor

Founder & CEO at Forcoda

Buffalo, United States

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Bringing 10 years of experience working with startups and Fortune500 companies, I help strategize, prototype, design, and develop successful SaaS and digital products. Specialty area – delivering measurable results in FinTech, EduTech, and B2B space.

Business Design / UX Marketing Product Tech

David Thiemecke🏅 840Office hoursMentor

Unintentional Generalist

Buffalo, NY, United States

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Co-founder with 2 exits across 12 bootstrapped software startups in 22 years with the same team. Loves the customer / product boundary, with all its pain, surprises, and delights.

Business Product Tech

Elisabeth Marino🏅 820

Sales Strategist & Trainer Catapulting Teams to Proven Success

Williamsville, United States

Founder of Sales Dynamo, and the nascent stages of a tech startup launch. It's a disruptive marketing tool in the trvel space. The startup is in the "move fast and break things" stage, and we don't yet have the name we will market under. Soon!

Business Marketing

Shaun Masavage🏅 820

CEO of Fret Zealot

Buffalo, United States

Mechanical Engineer turned entrepreneur. Merging software, firmware, and hardware into a seamless streaming ecosytem for music education.

Business Design / UX Marketing Product Tech

Stephanie Reh🏅 820

Accountability Evangelist

Rochester, United States

President / Founder of Accountability Evangelist, personal transformation coaching plus leadership/strategy consulting.  Startup community connector, non-profit community champion, diversity and inclusion advocate.

Business

Nicole Faraji🏅 820

Engineer, Serial Entrepreneur

Buffalo, United States

Bootstrapping a vertical SaaS company, looking for software developers and Computer Vision Scientists to join our growing team

Business Product Tech

Dane Jennings🏅 820

Studio Director at Catapult Games

Schenectady, United States

I manage Catapult Games, a game studio from Schenectady. In 2019, we released Don't Look Down, a VR climbing game. Now we partner with clients who need Unreal Engine development.

Business Design / UX Marketing Product Tech

Ravi Sahu🏅 820

Founder @ Strayos - Building google maps for below the surface

Buffalo, United States

Winner of 43North million dollar prize

Business Marketing Product Tech

David Bachowski🏅 820

Pragmatic Perfectionist

Brooklyn, United States

Technology and business generalist working in startups and enterprises in many domains - video games, gov't software, real estate, social media analytics, etc. Happy to lead teams of 2 to 100, both strategically or hands-on.

Business Product Tech

Rodney Reisdorf🏅 820

Co-Founder of Verivend

Buffalo, United States

Experienced leader of SaaS and enterprise software solutions with a successful history in the B2B and B2C industries. Creation and execution of operations, customer onboarding, and implementation strategies.

Business

Andy Lee🏅 820

Technical Recruiter | Startup & Talent Advisor

Southern Tier/Western NY, United States

SF Native. Buffalo transplant. Recruiter and startup/talent advisor. USCG Veteran. Educator. 
Scaling and growing tech/non-tech teams across the US. 

Business Design / UX Marketing Product Tech

Stephanie Argentine🏅 820

Chief People Officer at Centivo

Buffalo, United States

Experienced HR pro & attorney. Passionate about DEI, women in leadership, strategy execution, people processes & HR tech. Currently heading up People & Org at Centivo. Opinions my own.

Business

Merry Constantino🏅 820

Founder at ProductLogic LLC

Buffalo, United States

Experienced transformer of novel ideas into market-ready products, working with inventors, start-ups and established visionary corporations to stay at the front of thier fields.  

Business Product Tech

Joseph Trapp🏅 820

Founder/CEO @ Third Estate Analytics

Buffalo, United States

Community development lawyer building processes to help communities

Business Marketing Product

Akash Desai🏅 820

Entrepreneur and investor focusing on Ed Tech and cybersecurity companies

Buffalo, United States

I have built and sold two SaaS companies w/ 8-digit exits. My interests lie in financially backing or personally running recurring revenue and tech-enabled SaaS companies in accessibility-play cybersecurity or Ed Tech.

Business Tech

Michael Thaney🏅 810Office hoursMentor

Making Genesee Valley > Silicon Valley

Rochester, United States

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Innovation and Emerging Tech practioner at Constellation Brands and startup mentor, advisor and investor. I've spent 15 years in B2B software and +10 years at Accenture Digital.  Ask me about BigCo partnerships, Startup Grind, Wefunder.

Design / UX Marketing Product Tech

Mary Holler🏅 760

Business Leader with Technical Expertise

Lockport, United States

Proven transformation leader with strong business acumen, technical expertise, and extensive global experience across a variety of industries. Providing IT Strategic Planning specializing in maturing IT organizations for growth and scalability. 

Business Tech

Sam Oribamise🏅 820

Founder at Scentablez, LLC

Rochester, United States

We provide innovative Home Care products that improve lives and deliver an experience users want to share!

Business Product

Kristen Johnson🏅 760

Websites and marketing support for small businesses, startups, and non-profits

Buffalo, United States

An award-winning marketing leader, I've worked in the startup world and am experienced in leveraging content marketing to build credibility and boost exposure. Today, I build websites on WordPress and SquareSpace. Reach out if I can be of service!

Marketing

Zachary Vinal🏅 740

President @ Sani-Grip

Syracuse, United States

Invented & patented Sani-Grip, the most innovative & sanitary toilet seat ever created. Lifelong golfer & instructor, first time entrepreneur looking to change the world one bathroom at a time!

Business Product

Jesse Hughson🏅 740

Hoarder of Skills, Inventor, Designer, Builder

Rochester, United States

Founder at Skill Hoarder Labs, an industrial design, prototyping, and fabrication shop in Rochester NY.  Our sweet spot is designing and building electromechanical systems at the intersection of manufacturing, machine learning, automation, and IoT.

Design / UX Product Tech

Allison Yacci🏅 740

Co-Founder of DataCicada, finding meaningful actions from noisy data

Canandaigua, United States

Experienced entrepreneur in high tech, machine learning, clean energy and biotechnology industries. Currently growing a data analytics company - DataCicada.

Business Marketing Product Tech

Joel Shapiro🏅 740

Founder at JMS Technical Solutions and TeacherPod

Buffalo, United States

Working on growing TeacherPod - a community for Educators and Families to connect with each other!  Experienced with staffing and hiring teams.  Reach out if I can help with anything!

Business

Brian Jacobs🏅 740

Founder at SMMware

Amherst, United States

Bootstrapping founder at SMMware, working to grow the customer base. 22 years of web development. Happy to help with technical questions on PHP/MySQL programming or Linux system administration. Originally a Mechanical Engineer.

Tech

Andrew Davis🏅 740

Head of Recruiting at FTS

Rochester, United States

Experienced talent partner that is dedicated to getting the talent your company needs.

Business

Chris Bellacose🏅 740

I start businesses.

Buffalo, United States

Serial tech entrepreneur successfully funded with successful exits. VC and private equitiy expierence. Currentl busineeses include software for construction and safety. 

Business

Neil Carroll🏅 740

Unlocking Your Ability to Create Powerful, Professional Video Content.

Buffalo, United States

Long-time service provider to the startup community, taking a stab at something more scalable - the vidwheel Creator Network.

Experience in video production, strategy, distribution, and the nuts and bolts of owning/operating a 'lifestyle' business.

Business Marketing

Long Nguyen🏅 740

CEO at Arete Labs

Buffalo, United States

Entrepreneur, rock climber, engineer, and leader whose mission to help other become courageous leaders build psychologically safe environment.

Tech

Jordan Walbesser🏅 740Office hoursMentor

Counsel at Mattel/Fisher-Price

Buffalo, United States

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I work with high-performing IP-driven companies to leverage their IP through creative and effective deal-making. I am experienced licensing, intellectual property, and technology matters in the digital and video gaming space.

Business

Nicole Cooke🏅 740

Executive Director at WNY Book Arts Center

Buffalo, United States

Leader of a small arts-education nonprofit devoted to printing and book-related arts, in downtown Buffalo. Printmaker, photographer & graphic designer. Former marketing manager. Cycling enthusiast!

Business Marketing

Jacob Bruintjes🏅 730

Love turning ideas into products to take to market.

LANCASTER, United States

Experienced entrepreneur who has moved into big business working for a large PE fund. Have founded businesses that have raised over 5 Million and exited, now looking to feed my startup passion by investing in the WNY startup community.

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Dave Young🏅 900

John Greco🏅 900

Kit Mueller🏅 900

Christine E.B. Howard🏅 900

Doug Kellermeyer🏅 900

mike cardus🏅 900

Alex Scalzo🏅 900

Kate Huber🏅 900

Mike Kozelsky🏅 900

Greg Rosenberg🏅 900

John Kappel🏅 900

Jason Bartz🏅 900

Ellie Price🏅 900Office hoursMentor

Michael Schroeder🏅 900

Timothy Williamson🏅 900

JP Bourget🏅 900Office hoursMentor

Scott Falbo🏅 900

Jonathan Gorczyca🏅 900

Clark Dever🏅 900Office hoursMentor

Lena Levine🏅 850Office hoursMentor

David Thiemecke🏅 840Office hoursMentor

Elisabeth Marino🏅 820

Shaun Masavage🏅 820

Stephanie Reh🏅 820

Nicole Faraji🏅 820

Dane Jennings🏅 820

Ravi Sahu🏅 820

David Bachowski🏅 820

Rodney Reisdorf🏅 820

Andy Lee🏅 820

Stephanie Argentine🏅 820

Merry Constantino🏅 820

Joseph Trapp🏅 820

Akash Desai🏅 820

Michael Thaney🏅 810Office hoursMentor

Mary Holler🏅 760

Sam Oribamise🏅 820

Kristen Johnson🏅 760

Zachary Vinal🏅 740

Jesse Hughson🏅 740

Allison Yacci🏅 740

Joel Shapiro🏅 740

Brian Jacobs🏅 740

Andrew Davis🏅 740

Chris Bellacose🏅 740

Neil Carroll🏅 740

Long Nguyen🏅 740

Jordan Walbesser🏅 740Office hoursMentor

Nicole Cooke🏅 740

Jacob Bruintjes🏅 730