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Midwest Capital Roundup – Five Years of Funding History

Many Midwestern entrepreneurs feel like the region does not get its fair share of early stage capital and the numbers back them up. The best data on early stage capital.

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Instarta Simplifies Polls With Text Messages

Politicians are known for having catchy campaign slogans and accusatory commercials, but they aren’t often known for having impeccable web design. Champaign-Urbana startup Instarta set out to correct this problem.

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Startup St. Louis Draws Standing-Room Only Crowd

Moving into a new territory can be an uphill battle, but the Tech.li team seemed to have no trouble bringing the Tech.li name to St. Louis this week. The event.

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Wake N’ Shake iPhone App: The Merciless Alarm Clock [Video]

The Wake N’ Shake iPhone App is an iPhone alarm that rings until you shake it for an extended period of time. It’s the brainchild of Guatemalan-born, Texas-based entrepreneur Pedro Wunderlich who says the app is “like waking up to a Panda-punch to the face.

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Apps for Metro Chicago Announces Winners

The winners of the Apps for Metro Chicago have been announced and smart phone users city-wide rejoice. Previous Tech.li feature SpotHero was deemed the winer with a $5,000 prize. SpotHero is.

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Why You Should Know Health 2.0

“You guys are evil. Canada’s the best country in the world. We go to the doctor and we don’t need to worry about paying him, but here, your whole life,.

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SocialDevCamp: 5 Awesome Things and 5 Things You May Have Missed

(Disclosure: Tech.li was a media partner of SocialDevCamp) I had every intention of writing a full guide on the two-and-a-half day goodness of SocialDevCamp this past weekend. I felt, however,.

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Hexagrid Keeps Cloud Infrastructure Simple by Focusing on End Users

A beverage company solves a problem that is easy to understand — they quench people’s thirst. However, St. Louis-based Hexagrid focuses on a rather complicated problem: providing infrastructure for the cloud. Hexagrid is.

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Vignature Releases Android App, Hopes To Make Paper Signatures Irrelevant

[Dallas, TX] Vignature, an image-based electronic signature provider, released its consumer-facing Android app, SimplySign, earlier this month to complement its iPhone and web offerings. Through the app, users can legally.

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Sharethrough: Defining Video Distribution in a Digital World

Two years ago, I had my first interaction with a fairly unknown startup, named Sharethrough, that tossed a lofty promise my way: the ability to hoist my client’s branded content to “viral video” status…

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