The Bradley Business Center officially opened its 350,000 square-foot tech center late last month, and has already welcomed two green technology companies as its first occupants.
Any startups looking to get in on this year’s Chicago Digital Startup Initiative have until Monday to submit their applications for a chance at a $15,000 grant.
Another Chicago company is making the transition to mobile this week as RentSocial brings its brand new apartment hunting app to the iOS platform.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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