This week the Broad Institute, responsible for creating the Genome Analysis Toolkit, has named St. Louis-based Appistry as the company to handle the for-profit licensing of its innovative sequencing software.
Titled Speakers Pioneering Innovation Creativity and Entrepreneurship (SPICE), the new series aims to bring students and practitioners together with big names from the tech industry.
Build-A-Bear, the nation’s favorite shopping mall staple, has unveiled the first of its new high tech interactive stores recently in St. Louis’ West County Center.
Washington University in St. Louis’s entrepreneurial programs have been recognized as among the top ten in the nation by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur for many years. Here are five companies that were founded by students, graduates, or teachers at the university.
StudyHall, a St. Louis-based startup, is aiming to bring schools onto a centralized learning network where users can find the answers they’re looking for quickly and connect with other students across the globe.
This year’s competition is set to kick off alongside the city’s StartUp Connection on October 25th, and the organization is aiming to give even more startups a chance at the St. Louis fund the second time around.
Do you want to found a startup, but need a co-founder or two? How about a room full of co-founders? Future CTOs and CEOs can save $20 on their St. Louis Startup Weekend tickets by registering for the event by October 19th. Early bird tickets are $75, but the price will be going up to $95 on October 20th.
Next week Openly Disruptive, a St. Louis network of innovative minds, will hold its next Disruptive Diner in which three local entrepreneurs will take stage to discuss the importance of breaking free from the standard business model.
Aisle411, St. Louis’ commercial indoor mapping startup, announced this week that it has received a $250,000 investment from FinServe Tech Angels. The firm recently teamed up with St. Louis Arch.
Aaron Perlut on St. Louis’s startup scene: “There is tremendous opportunity for growth that has begun in the past two years. If this were a nine inning ball game, we are only in the second inning. We have a long way to go.”
