Meet STL Founders

“Innovation is anything, but business as usual”

Get to Know Paul Riat, Publisher of News Lab Inc. dba bizblip

Seed and pre-seed startups create more jobs, wealth and equity than any other sector of the economy but there is little consistent information about them.

Get to Know Marc Bernstein, CEO/Founder of Balto

Balto is the real-time guidance category leader, with over 170 million+ contact center conversations analyzed and optimized in real-time, and the highest-rated solution in our space on G2 with 4.8 stars.

Get to Know Ali Ahmadi, CEO of TCARE Inc.

TCARE reduces long-term-care claims for Medicaid & Life/LTC insurance carriers by providing an evidence-based family caregiver support program thus delaying/preventing nursing home placement.

Get to Know Sean Walsh, Managing Director and Co-founder of 1904labs

We help leaders design, build, and launch custom digital solutions that work in the enterprise. We’ve worked with the biggest organizations in St. Louis to solve their mission-critical challenges in areas like data engineering, decision science, digital experience, modern software engineering, and AI enabled customer service.

Spreadsheets to Hunches: Ryan Richt Creates Exponential Value Using AI

“My dad is a doctor and my mom is an artist… I wanted to be a scientist when I was in...

Taking Big Ideas and Making Them Approachable: Kathryn Jamboretz Brings AI to Obituaries

Writing and getting in front of people were motivations that led to a career in journalism, where most St. Louisans will know she was a morning news reporter at KMOV-4, then news anchor at KPLR-11, followed by a stint as radio host at The Big 550 KTRS.