StartupSac and the Carlsen Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Sac State are honoring Black History Month in February, welcoming another successful startup founder, Jontae James, CEO of NatureTrak.

Jontae James is the founder of NatureTrak, an enterprise risk management platform for financial institutions that bank the cannabis industry. He has consulted with government agencies to build track and trace solutions creating proprietary algorithms to uncover unusual or suspicious activity in the supply chain. Jontae has over 15 years in government and enterprise SaaS supply chain management. Prior to NatureTrak, he was co-founder of Bluntli, a digital licensing platform in the cannabis industry which specialized in patient and entity license verification back. This was the first of several track and trace technologies to bring transparency and visibility into the emerging cannabis market. Jontae has led a boutique venture capital organization’s sales and marketing for early-stage startups. He is passionate about entrepreneurship and launched a consumer-driven mobile app created to promote a more active, connected and productive employees called Your Out Of Office (YOOO!). Along with a community building solution aimed towards entertainment industry and media agencies to develop business partners to align resources with social media platforms – celebrity campaigns, political media campaign, news releases, events and promotions. He holds a BA from University of St. Francis in business management.

Location: Online

Date and Time: Tuesday, February 23, 2021, 5:00 pm — 7:00 pm

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Event Format

5:00 – 5:30 Welcome, networking, announcements
5:30 – 6:00 Fireside chat interview
6:00 – 6:50 Audience Q&A
6:50 – 7:00 Closing remarks

 

Startup Happy Hour is a monthly informal community-building event for founders, entrepreneurs, and innovators. These events feature a short interview with a successful entrepreneur, then the remainder of the event is open to informal Q&A and discussion.