Consorvia Says It’s Time to Romance Innovation
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Consorvia’s founder, Christina Fedor wants to redefine society’s relationship to the creative sector. With their latest client platform the company is fundamentally bringing the individual and the system together to serve people in their effort to self actualize. Our conversation reached into the benefits of letting people young and old flex their deepest and most creative muscles. Some of the issues with how we interact with tech and the solutions to overcoming these limitations. is an R&D ecosystem primed to answer the really big questions that seem to be converging on us at...
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Innovative Funding Leaders Compound Good Launch in VT
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Innova802 Crew Member Will Jeffries represented the team for the Burlington, VT premiere of a new and innovative funding organization, Compound good. Compound Good is a nonprofit fund that allows donors to make impact investments with philanthropy, unlocking capital for social entrepreneurs. Founders include Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET), Sage Software and Lawson’s Finest Liquids while supported ventures include , and a company familiar to the Innova802 podcast, and founder Meagan Downey. Following a viewing of their latest launch video, they sat down with...
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The Church of Temporal Naturalism Pt II
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When you connect with a born to be entrepreneur you know it. In our experience we place all creatives; the artists, the dreamers, the community builders in this category of human experience. Our guest for this two part episode exemplifies what we’re talking about. In a little more than an hour, and co-hosts Scott Graves and Ryan Munn explored Ron’s development of digital solutions for aiding mission-driven organizations, really community building in Web3 that is meaningful to the human world, focusing on Ron’s work with AI for social impact ( and ), philanthropy...
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The Church of Temporal Naturalism Pt I
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When you connect with a born to be entrepreneur you know it. In our experience we place all creatives; the artists, the dreamers, the community builders in this category of human experience. Our guest for this two part episode exemplifies what we’re talking about. In a little more than an hour, and co-hosts Scott Graves and Ryan Munn explored Ron’s development of digital solutions for aiding mission-driven organizations, really community building in Web3 that is meaningful to the human world, focusing on Ron’s work with AI for social impact ( and ), philanthropy...
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What Artificial Intelligence Could Be w/ AIGO.AI founder Peter Voss
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It was a high point for co-hosts Ryan Munn and Scott M. Graves when they were joined last week by founder Peter Voss. Peter’s a long-time innovator, founder, advocate and thinker concerning Artificial Intelligence(he coined the term artificial general intelligence) whose insights shared with us are making us think further, dig deeper into our own advocacy for the best use of AI in order to realize a benefit to a maximum spectrum of the worlds’ population. This is your opportunity to invest with one of the world’s most thoughtful innovation leaders in...
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Byron Batres on Building an Innovation for Legal Pt II
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Byron Batres of to recount the early days of building his company, the importance for understanding your clients true needs and how these early experiences are informing his latest venture. Byron’s insights are well worth the listen and the service they offer can help those who find themselves without the resources needed to take their loved ones assets out of probate. Part II of II
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Byron Batres on Building an Innovation for Legal Pt I
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Byron Batres of to recount the early days of building his company, the importance for understanding your clients true needs and how these early experiences are informing his latest venture. Byron’s insights are well worth the listen and the service they offer can help those who find themselves without the resources needed to take their loved ones assets out of probate.
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Where Craft Meets Cutting Edge: Treeline Terrains
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Host Ryan Munn joined founders Nathaniel Klein and Jacob Freedman of , 2025 SBA SMall Business Award winners and members of the Jacob and Nathaniel shared their origin story with Ryan and share with us multiple key factors for building and funding a successful startup, combining craft with innovative process and technology. Also mentioned in our podcast, &
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The Capital ‘E’ missing in Tech plus: Web 3.0 is now!
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NYC-Based Drew Trombley has deep roots in Vermont tech via the borderlands. Drew grew up in Ticonderoga, NY. Depending on your perspective that might as well be Vermont. Drew’s professional roots stem from the financing sector. This contributed to moments you’ll want to really take in regarding how the venture space conducts its decision-making and how you can set yourself apart when fundraising in ways that create benefit for everyone involved. Drew had very succinct things to say about fundraising strategy and building truly valuable digital products that emphasize our...
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Checking in with the Vermont Futures Project
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Vermont isn't just shrinking in population, its aging. The state has 30,000 fewer working age citizens between 25-40 then it did 25 years ago. This, while modest population gains during the Covid-19 pandemic has reversed. For those of us at the Innova802 Crew, we see the effects every day. Many citizens on fixed incomes, who represent a larger share of the population, cannot afford increases to taxes for education, infrastructure and public healthcare subsidies. For many, the gut reaction is to say, no new Vermont citizens, no new Vermont students, no new Vermont...
info_outlinePaul Shepherd is no stranger to the Vermont high tech community. He recently launched Rugged MicroPower to take what he’s learned working for leading Vermont tech companies and applying them to build a leader in providing power management solutions to the space industry.
Our conversation touched upon the intricacies of supply-chain, too. We also offer our congrats to Paul and the other members of the 2025 cohort of LaunchVT, announced recently. Find our 2024 interview with LaunchVT’s Lauren Bass.