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Techstars Chicago Reveals First Class!
The new Techstars Chicago announced their first class of 10 fresh startups on Thursday. Here they are.
Startup Front, There’s Something Brewing Outside Of Chicago
We’re pretty confident that over the course of the last year Chicago’s thriving tech startup scene has proven the folks at PandoDaily wrong, very wrong. Chicago has one of the fastest growing startup tech scenes in the world. Their 1871 incubator and startup epicenter is amazing, producing hit after hit and now home to TechStars
Chicago Startup Birdfeud Is Building Debates (Feuds) Around Brands [interview]
It’s no secret that debates that fill up a comment section on any blog, tech site, journal or review site, provide a very high level engagement. Not only are the debaters engaging but more and more viewers hone in on the best debates and watch them grow. A Chicago startup, called Birdfeud is taking advantage
Chicago Reviews Startup G2Crowd Taking On Gartner Not Yelp
The Chicago based team behind Big Machines, a company that specializes in cloud based product configuration, and sold to Vista Equity Partners and JMI Equity at a valuation of more than $100 million dollars is back. This time they’ve attacked a problem that IT professionals and companies around the world are having every day; finding
Chicago Startup Bus Team: MyBestRX Pitches In Startup Bus Finals At [sxsw]
A team of ambitious entrepreneurs, that hope to tip the scale when it comes to enabling affordable local healthcare, completed the first in their suite of mobile apps, designed for just that, while on board The Startup Bus. The idea behind MyBestRX is simple. When people purchase prescription drugs from the pharmacy, there is no standard “MAP”
Chicago Startup Tackling Childhood Obesity Catches The First Lady’s Eye [SXSW]
Chicago entrepreneur, investor, community leader and organizer of Startup Grind, Tom Denison, had his biz dev hat on at the Interact Expo at SXSWi on Friday. Denison is also the VP of Marketing and Development for Chicago based Jive Health. Jive Health is the developer of the game Jungo which aims to help prevent childhood
Chicago EdTech Startup ThinkCerca Pitches At SXSWedu
50 years ago, a student challenging a teacher would be cause for a good paddle beating or wrapping on the students fingers with a ruler. Today, not so much. Argumentation is now at the core of the new Common Core State Standards, and distinguished Chicago educator, Eileen Murphy Buckley, understands that with a passion. As
Chicago Startup Hummingbird Is The Rotten Tomatos For Anime
Chicago startup Hummingbird has created a platform that anime fans have been looking for for years. The startup, founded by Josh Fabian and Vikhyat Korrapati is the first database and recommendation engine just for anime. “Think Rotten Tomatoes had a baby with Netflix’s recommendation engine, and that baby is a huge anime fan.” Fabian told nibletz.com
Chicago On Today: A New Startup Launches Every 44 Hours
It’s hard to believe that less than a year ago Silicon Valley based PandoDaily sent a reporter to Chicago and he came back suggesting that their startup scene was sleepy. Fast forward to February 2013 and we’ve been tracking the startup communities rapid growth here. Earlier this month NBC’s Today Show reported some amazing facts
Excelerate Labs Becomes Techstars Chicago
Today in a blog post penned by Techstars founder David Cohen, he announced that Excelerate Labs, the startup accelerator located at 1871 has become Techstars Chicago. Excelerate Labs was founded by Troy Henikoff and Sam Yagan (OKCupid, SparkNotes and Match.com) in partnership with Sandbox Industries and New World Ventures. We’ve covered several of the Excelerate
Hundreds of Broken Headsets Lead To Chicago Startup RockRah CES 2013 Interview
If you’ve been a smartphone user for the past few years than you probably have something in common with me, and that is a junk drawer filled with earbuds. Some earbuds are frayed. Some don’t work in the right ear. Some don’t work in the right ear. Some have cords that are too short. Then
Chicago Startup: Rentalutions, Helping Landlords New & Old
The downturn in the economy over the last few years has forced several people, into becoming landlords. People who had a great deal on a house before the economy went down, were forced to start renting property. They wanted to hold onto their property and at the same time make money to pay their mortgages
Chicago Startup: ParkWhiz Raises $2 Million, Parking Startups Are Hot In Chicago
Monday we reported that Chicago parking startup SpotHero had raised $2.5 million in funding. That was big news for the ExcelerateLabs alumni that’s currently working out of 1871. Now, we’ve heard that another Chicago parking startup called ParkWhiz has raised $2 million dollars. ParkWhiz’ funding round was led by Hyde Park Venture Partners. Hyde Park