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.
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.
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.
St. Louis is blowing up as a startup hub in the Midwest, and soon could rival its neighbor to the north, Chicago. Previously, there was no way to see the actual size of the startup community in St. Louis. Thanks to a new initiative called the St. Louis Startup Map, the size of the St. Louis startup community is finally getting catalogued.
St. Louis-based sports social media platform LockerDome is bringing on Advantage Capital Partner Mark Lewis as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer. Lewis is a 19-year veteran of the venture capital industry.
St. Louis-based LockerDome is announcing the launch of its first ever game developed on the company’s platform in partnership with IDC Projects and Dime Magazine. The game is a branded version of IDC Projects’ Memory Matches game.
Thanks to a new commitment to fund two educational reform-focused Arch Grants by the John C. and Mary Kaye Fort Family Fund and St. Louis Regional Business Council (RBC), St. Louis is one step closer to becoming America’s thought leader on the future of education.
If you do decide to go out and shop this weekend, here are four St. Louis startups making products that can help you bring a little bit more sanity back into your life.
Cincinnati, Ohio-based local lending platform SoMoLend is extending its reach to the St. Louis market by offering a $1,000 prize to a St. Louis company with the best business loan application.
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