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.
What came first, the chicken or the egg? If you are running a consumer-facing startup, the answer has to be both.
Starting later this month the Illinois Institute of Technology has announced that it will begin offering iOS development classes at Chicago’s 1871 startup incubator.
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.”
All of these investors are creating a new way of supporting entrepreneurs, with a unique St. Louis style. Their investment strategies are all coming together to form the fabric of the St. Louis venture capital community.
Ocius, a Chicago property management solutions company, has unveiled its first mobile app this week that allows residents to pay rent and other property fees through a centralized service.
The company has begun an Open App Challenge, which invites the creative minds of the healthcare industry to come up with effective applications that integrate into Allscripts’ electronic health records software.
Belly’s iPhone app was downloaded 50,000 times since the iOS 6 release, marking a huge week for a relatively new company that was founded in Chicago in late 2011. The company has raised $12.9 million from some of the biggest names in venture capital.
The Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center is offering Chicago startups the chance at two free tickets for its upcoming Momentum Awards dinner, giving smaller companies the chance to rub shoulders with some of the city’s biggest innovators.
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