Entrepreneurship Forum featuring Kyle Buzzard

Kyle Buzzard is a designer, entrepreneur and investor based in Vicksburg, MI. Kyle spent ten years as a consultant in San Francisco and Chicago, leading the design of the Chromecast, Google X self-driving cars and many other projects. After seeing countless great ideas hit early roadblocks, he co-founded Prota Ventures in 2018, a venture studio and capital network.

In addition to Prota Ventures, he is also a co-founder of Bird Buddy and Stix Golf. As an entrepreneur, Kyle brings a unique perspective in design, manufacturing, marketing and fundraising to help validate ideas and find product market fit. As a designer, his work has been recognized with over two dozen international design awards and he holds over a dozen design and utility patents. He and his family moved to Michigan in 2020 and he recently opened the Bird Buddy US office in downtown Kalamazoo.