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The house music capital of the USA is about to become the capital of startups in the USA if these Chicago based entrepreneurs have anything to do with it. You may recall a couple weeks back Pando Daily sent a young reporter to Chicago who reported back that there was nothing to report here. Pando Daily’s Trevor Gilbert could not have been more off base.
We’ve already shared a few great startups out of Chicago with KlutchClub and Planfast, today we’re talking the important stuff, TechMoola. Everyone needs money and TechMoola has a startup that is a platform for other startups to make money. Co-Founders Solomon Nabatiyan and Tom Kelly are gearing the TechMoola platform exclusively to technology based startups.
We got a chance to talk with Nabatiyan who loves the city of Chicago as much (if not more than) Patrick Stump.
1. What is Techmoola
TechMoola.com is an online platform for tech entrepreneurs and startup companies to do project fundraising in the technology space. TechMoola enables inventors/entrepreneurs to raise project funding and build a support/partnership/customer base through an online forum.
Unlike Kickstarter and other sites which feature “technology” but actually host artistic venture or design projects/products that mainly are additio
2. Who are the founders, what did they do before this
Solomon Nabatiyan is a research professor in the biomedical sciences at Northwestern University, Evanston as well as the founder and CEO of a Chicago-based biotech company, Cervia Diagnostic Innovations, a social venture company that focuses on cervical cancer technologies for use in the developing world. His research work centers on the development of a new generation of HIV and cancer diagnostics to improve the quality of care and access to those who need it most.
Tom Kelly is a serial entrepreneur and digital guru in the Chicago area with an interest in web technologies that empower people and have a social impact. Among his many startups, CharityAuctionsToday.com has proven his most successful. He continues to bring innovation to how people can use the web to make the world around them a more sustainable and awesome place.
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