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.”
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.
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.
LockerDome, one of the fastest growing St. Louis-based startups, scored one of eight Business Of The Year awards last week. The awards were given out by the city and the St. Louis Development Corp. as part of the Business Celebration Luncheon 2012 event on October 5.
This coming Tuesday, October 9th, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian will visit both St. Louis’ Washington University and downtown startup incubator T-REx to discuss the open internet and the censorship bills that threaten the web as we know it today.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel will do almost anything to keep the heavily recruited University of Illinois students from leaving the state to go work in Silicon Valley. This week, he appeared in front of a group of students at the Urbana-Champaign campus, imploring them to consider starting their careers in Chicago.
Click With Me Now and Evtron have been hard at work showcasing their uniquely innovative technologies to the crowd of entrepreneurs and investors at this year’s DEMO conference.
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