Ventures by the Lake

By: Anthony Alepra & Mike Sundermeier
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  • Do you have an idea for a startup, or do you have a side hustle that you're hoping to go full-time on? We sit down with early-stage founders, investors, and entrepreneurship community leaders in Chicago to shed light on real stories about real ventures by the lake. You'll find a range of perspectives that we hope will give you marching orders & inspire you to turn your part-time side project into a full-time startup. We also talk about events, resources, and cool things happening in the growing Chicago tech community. It's fine if you're not from Chicago, we'll just love you slightly less.
    Anthony Alepra & Mike Sundermeier
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Economics Leadership Management & Leadership
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Episodes
  • S1E10: Smart Batteries with Sophia from Blip

    S1E10: Smart Batteries with Sophia from Blip
    Dec 5 2023

    Join us for our conversation with Sophia Wennstedt from Blip Energy! Blip is making energy equity accessible to accelerate the clean energy transition by building a new category of smart, affordable energy storage to add homes to the smart grid network. Listen to learn about Sophia's journey from engineer to business school, to founder.


    Check out ⁠Blip

    Our ⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠

    Follow us on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/ventures-by-the-lake/
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    47 mins
  • S1E9: Building Environmental Sustainability Hardware with Tayyaba from Tikal

    S1E9: Building Environmental Sustainability Hardware with Tayyaba from Tikal
    Oct 19 2023

    Join us for our conversation with Tayyaba Ali from Tikal Industries! Tikal is an environmental diagnostics company leveraging advanced hardware and AI to detect contaminants in water. Listen in to learn what goes into building a hardware tech company and how to approach an environmental problem from a business lens.


    Check out Tikal

    Our ⁠⁠website⁠⁠

    Follow us on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/ventures-by-the-lake/
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    51 mins
  • S1E8: Bringing Pizazz to Cybersecurity with Mariana from Kikrr

    S1E8: Bringing Pizazz to Cybersecurity with Mariana from Kikrr
    Sep 12 2023

    We talk to Mariana Padilla, CEO of Kikrr. Kikrr is a platform that connects buyers to cybersecurity software vendors and provides access to on-demand demos. Listen to the episode to learn how Mariana & Kikrr aren't afraid to do things a little differently in the cybersecurity industry.


    Check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Kikrr⁠


    Our ⁠website⁠

    Follow us on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/ventures-by-the-lake/
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    46 mins

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