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Founder Interviews: Part 1 2023 Vogt Awards Cohort

August 31, 2023

Dear Readers, I recently had the great pleasure to have discussions with the founders of the 2023 Community Foundation of Louisville’s Vogt awards cohort. Each year, up to six early-stage…

Teach Kentucky is working to solve the teacher shortage and brain drain in Louisville

July 12, 2023

Teaching is a hard job. The pay is terrible, the students are difficult and the demands on educators are relentless. But those who feel called to teach find it to…

Entrepreneurship in Akron: Meet Elyse Ball of the University of Akron Research Foundation

May 10, 2023

Being the Rubber Capital of the World, Akron, Ohio, isn’t normally the place you’d look to for innovation in entrepreneurship. But being the home of Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone and General…

Innovation under the arch: Why St. Louis is a modern entrepreneurial hub

March 16, 2023

Stephen Von Rump has lived a lot of lives in technology and startups. He’s created multiple businesses, is entrepreneur-in-residence at BioGenerator, a panel member at the National Science Foundation, and…

SuperDispatch adds SuperPay | X-ray taken in zero-g | Arrive Health uses AI

January 25, 2023

SuperDispatch launches new digital payment app KANSAS CITY, MO–SuperDispatch, a Kansas City-based car shipping platform, launched SuperPay, an integrated and automated payment feature within the SuperDispatch platform, that uses a…

Cybersecurity jobs during a downturn: Are companies hiring or firing?

January 25, 2023

Spend a little time on LinkedIn right now, and your mood is bound to grow dark. Every other post, it seems, is someone announcing they’ve been laid off by a…

Automation for the people: Low-code/no-code solutions are on the rise in business

January 25, 2023

If you need a new software solution or to automate small tasks, do you buy a new piece of software or build it yourself? These days, many companies are opting…

SweatID measures athletes’ sodium content in real time

January 19, 2023

SweatID, a startup founded in 2017 by Dr. Chelsea Monty-Bromer, PhD, wants athletes to rethink the way they learn about their health. The company uses science to measure sodium concentrations…

3M to cut PFAS | Pole/Zero wins Down Under | Greif noted for sustainability

January 11, 2023

3M announces an end to PFAS manufacturing by 2025 ST. PAUL, MN–3M announced it will exit per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) manufacturing and work to discontinue the use of PFAS…

Hoosiers rule the tech world in Bloomington

January 11, 2023

Bloomington, Indiana, might be an adorable small town with a world-class university and a rollicking party scene, but it’s more than that – it’s also a technology hub of some…

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Hoosiers rule the tech world in Bloomington

January 11, 2023
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January 11, 2023

Monogram Health closes on milestone $375M round | Idea Fund Partners doubles its funding target

January 11, 2023

Smart trash tech | Digital music everyone can create

January 11, 2023

From university spinout to $93M company | University of Minnesota partners on VC businesses

January 9, 2023
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University research that debuted at CES

January 9, 2023

Astrobotic to develop lander for ULA | Startups and legal weed

January 4, 2023

Redefining fashion in the metaverse | Frist Cressey Ventures raises $26.98M

January 4, 2023

Life sciences incubator will receive $1M grant | University of Memphis’ 2022 research proposals

December 30, 2022

Automating ‘personalized’ emails | Making pig livers humanlike

December 30, 2022

HistoSonics raises $85M | Gener8tor supports Flyover Country startups

December 20, 2022

Shopping with a virtual cart | Ohio’s Genetesis founders recognized by Forbes

December 20, 2022

Dedicated university research led to startup and a big payoff | Ohio boosts tech transfer efforts

December 18, 2022

University of Michigan startup raises $85 million | ISU gets record gift

December 18, 2022

Opendorse raises $20M | JPMorgan Chase to support minority founder accelerator

December 14, 2022

GPS-driven scavenger hunt | Connecting employers to disabled job candidates

December 14, 2022
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Schuster goes high-tech | Parascript innovates in NLP | KeyLogic gets huge DOE contract

December 13, 2022

‘Smart concrete’ | Recycling the unrecyclable

December 10, 2022

Friends in high places

December 10, 2022

Driving investment to tech critical to U.S. national security & more

December 7, 2022