Steve Case

  • Steve Case talks to SPN about what makes a successful startup community

    Steve Case talks to SPN about what makes a successful startup community

    KANSAS CITY— Steve Case remembers the early days of AOL in Washington D.C. in the 1980s. The founder of one of the world’s first mainstream Internet services says it was a government town only.

  • Leap.it wins $100K on Kansas City stop of Rise of the Rest tour

    Leap.it wins $100K on Kansas City stop of Rise of the Rest tour

    Leap.it, a KC-based startup search site that wants to make searching the web more social and visual, took home $100,000 from the Rise of the Rest tour Thursday. The pitch competition, which was part of the Big Kansas City afternoon slate, is a part of Rise of the Rest, a regional bus tour to highlight…

  • Bawte snags $100K investment from Rise of the Rest DSM stop

    Bawte snags $100K investment from Rise of the Rest DSM stop

    DES MOINES—Melissa Jackovin took the stage Wednesday at the Rise of Rest tour’s stop in Des Moines not to pitch a company she founded, but because her husband and the startup’s founder, John, couldn’t…

  • Rise of the Rest finalists announced for Des Moines, Kansas City

    Rise of the Rest finalists announced for Des Moines, Kansas City

    With the kickoff for the second Rise of the Rest Road Trip less than a week away, the finalists with a chance at $100,000 have been announced in each of the tour’s five cities.

  • Only a week left to apply to pitch at a Rise of the Rest stop near you

    In less than a month, startups in five Midwestern cities will each have a shot at a $100,000 investment. As part of the Rise of the Rest Road Trip with Revolution CEO Steve Case, five pitch competitions will be held across the region—in Madison, Wis.; Minneapolis; Des Moines; Kansas City and St. Louis—to help “celebrate…

  • Steve Case talk and $100K pitch competition added to Big KC lineup

    Less than 10 weeks after successfully completing its first Rise of the Rest Tour, Revolution, in partnership with UP Global, Google for Entrepreneurs, Engine Advocacy and Startup Grind announced today the launch of a second to come in early October. Spearheaded by Revolution’s CEO Steve Case, the tour will seek to shine light on Midwest…

  • Seed Here helps produce four-day road tour with AOL’s Steve Case

    Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Seed Here Studio announced today it will partner with Revolution and UP Global to present the “Rise of the Rest” road tour with AOL co-founder Steve Case. While the four-day, four-city tour won’t stop in the Silicon Prairie, co-founders Amanda Styron and Andy Stoll say the trip helps continue Seed Here’s mission…

  • Revolution Ventures closes $200M fund led by Steve Case, two others

    Washington, D.C.-based Revolution Ventures announced Monday that the firm closed a $200 million fund led by Steve Case—AOL co-founder, Startup America Partnership chairman and Revolution CEO—as well as Tige Savage and David Golden. According to Revolution, the raise is believed to be the “largest first-time venture fund launched outside of Silicon Valley since the 2008 financial…

  • Steve Case calls U.S. to “double down on entrepreneurship” (Video)

    Steve Case, the co-founder and former CEO of AOL and current chairman of the Startup America Partnership, spoke Oct. 10 at Thinc Iowa 2012 about where his entrepreneurial journey has taken him and how he hopes the U.S. will continue to nurture entrepreneurs. “As a nation, it’s important that we double down on entrepreneurship and…

  • Steve Case: “All great ideas start as weird ideas”

    As the co-founder and former chief executive officer of AOL, the co-founder and CEO of investment firm Revolution and the chairman of the Startup America Partnership — to name just a few of his endeavors — Steve Case has a résumé that could make even the most serial of entrepreneurs blush. But when Case took…