The O.H.I.O. Fund Report

The O.H.I.O. Fund Report℠ — a podcast dedicated to elevating Ohio’s collective ambition by highlighting the most compelling stories of innovation and growth throughout the state. Each episode carries the industrious DNA of Ohio, exploring the state’s economic renaissance across advanced manufacturing, digital infrastructure, biotech, healthcare, energy, data centers & AI, consumer goods, and logistics advancements.

The O.H.I.O. Fund Report is a business podcast hosted by The O.H.I.O. Fund, with 13 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

The O.H.I.O. Fund hosts The O.H.I.O. Fund Report, a business show with 13 episodes published.

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  Episode #12

  Anna Dey on the Business of Franchise

  May 28, 202659 minS0

  <p>This episode of The O.H.I.O. Fund Report features Anna Dey — a multi-unit, multi-brand franchise entrepreneur based in Northeast Ohio.</p><p><br>Anna has spent the past decade building a portfolio of franchise businesses across Ohio, operating across brands including Anytime Fitness, Clean Eatz, Smoothie King, The Vitamin Shoppe, Barrio Tacos + Tequila, and goGLOW. Along the way, she’s developed a unique perspective on franchising as a path to entrepreneurship and today works with aspiring entrepreneurs through The franSPOT, helping others navigate the process of becoming franchise owners.</p><p><br>Alongside her for-profit work, Anna is a...

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  Episode #11

  Ken Sobel (Hyperframe) — Moving to Ohio and Constructing The Future of Steel Framing

  Apr 24, 202652 minS0

  <p>Ken Sobel — Co-founder and CEO of Hyperframe.</p><p><br>Ken is a repeat founder and engineer whose path into construction followed an earlier startup journey through Y Combinator and an acquisition by Visa. With Hyperframe, he’s taken a first-principles approach to one of the most fundamental components of construction — steel framing — reimagining a process that’s been slow, manual, and largely unchanged for decades, and redesigning it into a snap-together framing system that’s faster, safer, and far more efficient.</p><p><br>After years of development and real-world validation, the company has achieved strong product-market fit and is now s...

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  Episode #10

  Will Zell (Vessel) — Empowering Founders and Democratizing VC in Ohio

  Mar 19, 20261h 8mS0

  <p>Will Zell — Founder and Managing Partner of Vessel, founding CEO and now Executive Chair of AssetWatch, and a leading voice in rethinking how venture capital works across Ohio.</p><p><br>Will’s path into technology and venture isn’t conventional. He grew up — and still lives — in Bellefontaine, Ohio. At 17, he ran for city council under the slogan “A Voice for the Future.” He spent time in ministry, built a real estate portfolio during the financial crisis, and ultimately found his way into technology startups — learning firsthand what it means to raise capital in a state that consistently punches below it...

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  Episode #9

  Chad Delligatti on InnoSource, AI, and the Future of Staffing

  Feb 27, 20261h 4mS0

  <p>Chad Delligatti — CEO of InnoSource, the Dublin, Ohio–headquartered workforce solutions company that has quietly grown into a national platform serving Fortune 500 and midsized organizations across the country.</p><p><br>Since joining InnoSource in 2000 as one of its earliest employees, Chad has devoted his entire professional career to building the company — helping it evolve from a regional staffing firm into a leading human resources, recruiting, onsite outsourcing, and data solutions partner employing more than 2,000 associates across North America.</p><p><br>In our conversation, Chad reflects on his entrepreneurial beginnings — from lawn mowing businesses in Granville to flipping Beanie B...

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  Episode #8

  Making the World’s Best Dog Food in Cleveland — Michael & Tory Waxman on Scaling Sundays For Dogs and the Future of Dog Food

  Jan 22, 202657 minS0

  <p>This episode of The O.H.I.O. Fund Report features Michael and Tory Waxman — the founders of Sundays for Dogs, the Cleveland-based company designed to make dog parents’ lives easy.</p><p><br>What began with their own dog, Mabel, and a simple but powerful question — why does feeding dogs well have to be so difficult? — has grown into one of the most exciting consumer companies to emerge from Ohio. Led by loving dog parents Dr. Tory Waxman, a veterinarian, and Michael Waxman, a serial entrepreneur, Sundays pioneered human-grade, air-dried, zero-synthetics dog food designed to be healthier than kibble a...

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