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St. Louis startup accelerator Capital Innovators has begun accepting applications for its Spring 2013 class this week, offering fledgling companies $50,000 in seed funding as well as free office space in T-REx.
E.ON Climate & Renewables, whose North American division is headquartered in Chicago, announced this week that it has received a $167.7 million equity investment from JP Morgan and Wells Fargo.
The StartLouis meetup is a grassroots community of startup enthusiasts that was founded in late autumn of last year. Since then, the group has grown to include over 230 members and four sponsors: Lockerdome, T-REx, Schlafly, and Food Essentials.
Entrepreneurs seeking mentorship will have the chance to meet up with some of the biggest minds in the Chicago startup community over the next year thanks to a new initiative at 1871.
While Craigslist has widely been criticized as singlehandedly killing the newspaper industry by taking classifieds to the web, adFREEQ is attempting to reclaim the classified revenue model for traditional media outlets like radio and newspapers that now have a web presence.
The economic activity from within T-REx roars louder than city leaders originally expected, and St. Louis is ready to transition T-REx from an initiative to a formalized organization.
GoSoapBox circumvents the issue of classroom passivity by allowing students and teachers to connect on a web platform that can be utilized during class time to anonymously ask questions or quiz students on what they’ve learned so far.
Arab American and entrepreneur Ramzey Nassar has set out to corner an entirely untapped market, bringing Arabic humor to the masses one t-shirt at a time.
Arch Grants is a non-profit organization that issues grants based on The Arch Grants Business Plan Competition, but the only catch is that the startups selected to receive the grants must stay (or relocate) to downtown St. Louis.
2012 has been a bad year for venture activity in the city of Portland, which is just starting to step out of the shadows of northwest technology behemoths San Francisco and Seattle. Venture funding was down statewide in Oregon 55% so far in 2012.