COUNSEL STACK MAKES ITS CASE
Brown and White Ventures Podcast: Counsel Stack Founder Von Wooding
Host: Jim Aroune
New KAV Helmets Model Rolls Out Of WNY Plant
Tour Of New Buffalo Production Center
Host Jim Aroune welcomes Von Wooding, founder of Counsel Stack, legal tech startup focused on delivering a reliable AI suite of services for attorneys, law firms, courts and law students. Wooding, a graduate of the Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Duquesne University and, before that, Oberlin College football player, shares how he developed Counsel Stack as a way to pass the Bar Exam, how it stacks up to the exacting expectations of the legal industry, and why it could set free a new generation of law practitioners.
KAV Helmets, makers of a revolutionary cycling helmet that is made using AI and 3-D printing, brought its manufacturing center in Buffalo, NY to life in May 2025. KAV staff share more about the launch of production in Western New York, as the 43 North alum and California-born startup hits a new gear.
JUNE 5, 2025
JUNE 5, 2025
Insights
Creative Collisions and Why Upstate's NY's Venture Scene Needs More
Dave Brown, Impellant Ventures
Brown and White Podcast
Host Jim Aroune welcomes David Brown, managing partner at Impellent Ventures and Board Chair at Upstate Capital Association of New York to discuss upstate's venture capital ecosystem, the need for mentors in vc and the "one thing" VC across upstate needs more are "creative collisions."
Full Episode: https://youtu.be/v3uJeC7lEk4
Lawyers Launching Their Own Firms
Von Wooding, Counsel Stack
New Legal Tech leads with AI Research, crosses with what its founder calls a platform that's "a law firm in a box."
Counsel Stack, a legal teach startup leveraging AI for research and law firm operations to enhance attorney efficiency, can also create opportunity for lawyers who wish to launch their own firm; as explained by Counsel Stack founder Von Wooding. Recorded March, 2025 in Pittsburgh, PA.
JUNE 5, 2025
JUNE 5, 2025
KAV Factory Takes Helmet Maker To Next Stage
WKBW-TV Anchor Michael Wooten profiles KAV and Brown and White Helmets as KAV prepares to open its Buffalo, NY manufacturing center. With KAV Founder, CEO Whitman Kwok and Brown and White Ventures General Partner Jim Aroune.
JUNE 5, 2025
Introducing Legal AI When Trust Is At A Premium
Counsel Stack founder Von Wooding told the Pittsburgh Post GAzette about the challenges of AI in law and the courts, and how his company's platform responds to those challenges. Comments shared in an interview in January 2025.
JUNE 5, 2025
How Can AI Work For A Law Firm and Those It Serves
Counsel Stack, a legal tech platform that applies AI for research and law office operations, is demonstrated by founder Von Wooding and attorney James Cartwright. Produced in Pittsburgh, PA in March 2025.
JUNE 5, 2025
KAV's Custom Fit FInds Talent Fit In Buffalo
Whitman Kwok, founder and CEO of KAV, speaks on the workforce of the region as he prepares to open his cycling helmet company's new manufacturing center in Buffalo, NY. January 2025.
JUNE 5, 2025
Why Launch A Startup: KAV Founder, With A Word For Entrepreneurs
KAV founder Whitman Kwok speaks to entrepreneurs and why they should "do it." KAV is a company supported by investment by Brown and White Ventures. Feb. 2025
JUNE 5, 2025
Old Factory Becomes KAV Helmets New Manufacturing Center
Brown and White Ventures gets its first look at KAV Helmets new cycling helmet production plant. The Silicon Valley transplant is opening a plant on Louisiana Street in the Old First Ward of Buffalo, NY. KAV's Alex Greening and Megan Kelly lead us in January, 2025 through the company's corner of what was, in the 20th century, a BarcaLounger chair factory.
JUNE 5, 2025
First Impression: Brown and White Ventures Introduced at SBU
Chuck O'Neill, St. Bonaventure University Class of 1983, and founder of venture capital fund Brown and White Ventures, speaks to university alums and local business leaders about the launch of the fund in December, 2023. O'Neill speaks at the Swan Center at SBU.
JUNE 5, 2025
Range of Investment at BWV
Brown and White Ventures founder Chuck O'Neill explains the investment range for the venture capital fund to Buffalo Business First reporter Lian Bunny, December 2023. Brown and White Ventures was first named the St. Bona Venture Fund I. It changed that name to Brown and White Ventures in 2024.
JUNE 5, 2025
A Safer Ride: KAV Helmets Original Mission
KAV Helmets founder Whitman Kwok describes how his company's cycling helmets, engineered to be three times safer than others, meet the protective needs of those who wear them.
JUNE 5, 2025