Michael Mainier isn’t a natural risk-taker.
But he woke up one morning this winter and knew it was time to trade in his corporate banking career for HELIXintel, the startup he’d been dabbling in for months.
In the nine months since, the Buffalo-based firm has doubled its team to 10 employees, closed out a $1.6 million pre-seed round and seen expansive growth in its customer base.
HELIXintel is a high-tech way for equipment operators — that includes everyone from restaurants to factories to building contractors – to proactively track and maintain the machines that power their businesses.
Mainier said the value proposition that emerged in his initial conversations with CEO, co-founder (and brother-in-law) Jon DeWald is proving itself in the real world now. Going forward, it’s about executing on an expansive national opportunity.
Click on the embedded video below to view Buffalo Inno’s inaugural Bytes with the Beat conversation with Mainier. The semi-regular feature is a fun look at the people who are driving Buffalo’s most ambitious companies forward.
