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Hunter Peress

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Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee for startups (also on youtube!) My name is Hunter Peress and I am in the trenches and on the hunt for new and exciting startups....or failed startups with new and exciting founders. Join me on my journey to walk and talk with the people who are not happy with the way things are and are highly motivated to do something about it
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Kaitlin lost her mother to breast cancer that could have been prevented. She inherited the same BRCA1 genetics and decided to have a mastectomy preemptively where cancer was discovered after the procedure. She is starting Gabbi as a for profit venture to help women feel comfortable talking about women's health issues. Kaitlin is not only creating a…
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Andrew's best friend passed away in 2012 and first responders did not get to the scene fast enough. He has dedicated the next 7 years of his life solving that issue and the result is startup POM which stands for Peace of Mind. It is a device with one button that makes emergency response more effective and more discreet. https://getthepom.com/ http:…
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https://www.nsity.app helps charities while you answer brand research. Felipe Cordero García has been hustling since the age of 6 when he sold his laminas at the street market in Chile. Today, he is building startup NSITY to help charities while providing brands research! Video: http://startuphunter.co…
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Peter began his career in the peace corps wide eyed about changing the world, but soon learned how difficult it may be. Eventually he worked up the courage to move to NYC and after a series of foundational experiences at startups decided to work for himself. Today he is a partner at http://recorp.co which is brining startup thinking into big brands…
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Wade & Wendy is an Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Startup changing the way job seeking candidates and enterprise companies approach the recruiting process https://wadeandwendy.ai/ Drew Austin is a natural born serial entrepreneur who has been founding successful startups since highschool and he has only gotten better with age.…
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Lloyd is not your typical startup founder. His entrepreneurship journey spans over 4 continents. Today, he runs The Spike Lab: a startup helping teens find their purpose and passion working on real projects. These teens learn lifetime lessons, crucial 21st century interdisciplinary skills and get an edge in the college and university admission proc…
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FutureProof Retail is a startup enabling frictionless self checkout in retail stores around the world. They have eliminated waiting in the checkout process and this startup has a great user experience in their app that is improving the way we shop in stores and reducing wait times. https://futureproofretail.com/ Video: http://startuphunter.co…
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Ahimi is vegan Tuna, developed by the startup OceanHugger Foods to address price volatility in the seafood supply chain, David Benzaquen teamed up with chef James Corwell to make a plant based, sustainable and price competitive alternative to tuna! https://oceanhuggerfoods.com Video: http://startuphunter.co…
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GrowSquares is a plant startup, Paint by numbers for growing plants at home. Order pre packaged seeds and nutrients for optimal results. http://growsquares.com Zachary Witman has been taking entrepreneurial trusts since he was in second grade through selling potato chips, to selling merch at football games to running a fantasy sports league. After …
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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 bio…
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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…
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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,…
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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 bou…
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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…
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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…
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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 tar…
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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 th…
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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 fr…
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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…
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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. …
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