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St. Louis Startup & Capital Report 2014

According to the newly released Accelerate St. Louis Startup & Capital Report 2014, the greater St. Louis region demonstrates “unprecedented growth and strength of the regional ecosystem for tech-based startups.”.

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InvestMidwest Connects Investors With Startups In St. Louis

Ed Mass believes online education has a ton of room to grow. “Currently, the K-12 education market is very underdeveloped in terms of online education platforms,” he said with excitement,.

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Chicks Crowdfund “The Bang Wrangler”

There’s a chick named Diana Klochkova and another chick named Ashley Reta. They met in the summer of 2013, and quickly bonded over their love of anything having to do.

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Glass Competitor Laforge Pulls Indiegogo Campaign Days After Its Launch

Remember that great new Google Glass competitor you were excited about?   (See Techli’s write-up here.) They received so much attention last week, including mentions in more than 200 media outlets,.

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Splice Machine Raises $15M Series B; Plans To Hire In St. Louis

Splice Machine may technically be based in San Francisco, but they have strong ties to the city of St. Louis and its burgeoning startup community.  Its co-founder, John Leach, works.

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St. Louis – Meet Capital Innovators 2014 Spring Class

Last night, Capital Innovators introduced their 2014 spring class.  Out of the five companies introduced, four of them are not local to the region.  They’ll be in St. Louis for.

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$100,000 Grant Awarded To BioSTL To Promote Inclusion Of Women And Minorities In Bioscience And Entrepreneurship

There’s a new pilot program in the works from BioSTL thanks to a $100,000 grant they received from the Blackstone Charitable Foundation.  The new program, announced last week, aims to.

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With JOBS Act Rules In Place, Geostellar Seeks To Crowdfund A Solar Energy Marketplace

While it took roughly one year for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to put the rules in place, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, which was signed.

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There’s A New Cryptocurrency In Town – Meet NoFiatCoin

Well Bitcoin, you paved the way.  But, NoFiatCoin wants to build on that and offer something that they think is even better.  The currency was launched on January 6, 2014,.

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A Real Elevator Pitch Event: St. Louis University Students Are On The Rise

This past Sunday morning at 8:00 a.m., exactly 18 hours after returning from my wedding/honeymoon in Colorado, I shuffled into the Met Square building downtown St. Louis unsure as to.

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