Tech industry veteran Chris Sommers has a lot on his plate – literally. He co-founded Pi Pizzeria in St. Louis in 2007, but his foray into restaurants can’t keep him away from the tech industry. His latest venture Sqwid helps him keep track of customer feedback and issue rewards.
On Friday, December 7th, the Women Entrepreneurs of St. Louis (WEST) held its launch party at St. Louis’ worst kept secret, Lab 1500 (opening in January- officially). WEST.
The service is giving members of the St. Louis community the chance to vote on the very best ideas and projects aimed at making the city a great place to live, work, and play.
Ronak Sheth was at the right place at the right time earlier this year when he bumped into Food Essentials CEO and co-founder Anton Xavier as he was taking a tour of the T-REx building in downtown St. Louis. Today, Sheth is joining the FoodEssentials team as Executive Vice President, Product and Strategy.
Tara A. Nealey and Charles C. Vos, attorneys in the St. Louis office of Polsinelli Shughart PC, give advice to entrepreneurs about corporate IP.
A new kind of crowdfunding startup has emerged this Fall that’s taking the dreamers to task and charging them to actually “get shit done.”
St. Louis-based LockerDome is celebrating a major traffic milestone today. 3 million monthly unique visitors are now flocking to the sports social media platform. This milestone now officially places the company among the fastest growing online sports-specific websites in the world.
Jenny Dibble knows more than a little bit about entrepreneurship. Dibble started her first web development business in the eighth grade by teaching herself to code and began designing websites for local businesses in her hometown. Now that Dibble has founded and sold her biggest venture to date, she is reaching out to other women in the St. Louis entrepreneurial community to create a network of experienced, professional entrepreneurs who want to help each other take their careers to the next level.
The Center for Entrepreneurship at SLU’s Cook School of Businesses plans to use the $2.2 million gift to bring the entrepreneurial program to students at an earlier stage in their education.
St. Louis-based FoodEssentials is the latest in the series of Health 2.0 companies to partner with Aetna’s CarePass Developer Portal. FoodEssentials’ Label API joins the Rewards API by EarnedIt and Medical Search by Healthline among other health and wellness APIs to form a platform that apps like iTriage, MapMyFitness, Thryve, FatSecret, Gympact, Strava, and RunKeeper have all integrated with.
