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Reverb acquired by Etsy
Last Monday, Etsy announced its $275 million acquisition of Reverb. Reverb is a Chicago based music gear marketplace and community. According to Barron’s and Pitchbook, Etsy is not a frequent acquiring company. In fact, their most recent acquisition was Blackbird Technologies in 2016. However, the companies both cited the significant synergies that this transaction created…
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FarrPro – making the world a better place for one piglet at a time
FarrPro is innovating in the swine industry to keep piglets warm and healthy, while improving the bottom line for producers. Pork is a $30 billion industry and the meat is the most consumed protein in the world; it continues to hold steady in popularity, according to FarrPro. As a result, farmers are increasing their reliance…
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Player’s Health- the new standard of health and safety in sports
Player’s Health, provider of an injury management platform for young athletes, raised $2 million in funding last week in order to generate revenue. An athlete’s health, especially at a young age, has become a priority to coaches and parents in recent times. With their free software, Player’s Health Rehab allows the user to manage injuries…
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ConnexPay – transforming payment acceptance and issuance for travel companies and e-commerce providers
ConnexPay, a Minneapolis-based company, raised $7 million in Series A funding last month. The funding was led by BIP Capital, an Atlanta based venture capital and private equity investment firm. This marks BIP Capital’s 50th investment, with others including ChartSpan Medical Technologies and OncoLens. In the simplest terms, ConnexPay is solving cash flow, credit, and…
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LegacyBook helps financial planners grow book of business
LegacyBook, a Wichita-based startup, is innovating financial advisor-client relationships and collaboration with a secure and new convenient mobile app available currently on iOS devices (with plans to make it available for Android). LegacyBook is the solution for the aging clients of financial planners to memorialize and secure their legacy. The company projects that 120…
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SwineTech raises capital, innovates in the pork industry
SwineTech, a developer of Artificial Intelligence and sensor-based technologies intended to reduce the number of piglet deaths, secured $4.63 million in funding last month. The funding’s purpose was to help the four-year old Cedar Rapids-based company generate revenue. SwineTech is responsible for developing technology which helps farmers reduce the number of pigs that die as…
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Compat.io: cloud-based software increasing revenue and margins of businesses
Compat.io, a Springfield, Missouri based company, recently raised $890K in late June. The purpose of the funding was to help the one-year-old company generate revenue and was completed by an individual angel investor. Compat.io improves the omnichannel retail experience by providing highly accurate product recommendations that increase per-transaction revenue and reduce the costs of product…
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Healium: powering virtual worlds with the brain
StoryUP, the makers of a virtual stress relief product called Healium, has made some serious headway recently. The Missouri-based startup was selected from a pool of 5,000 applicants from 120 different countries to present at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit at the Hague in the Netherlands June 3-5. “We were delighted to be selected and even…
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Oars + Alps: created by women, for men
Oars + Alps is a producer and retailer of men’s natural skincare and grooming products without toxins.
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Denim®– specializing in marketing technology for multi-location Fortune 500 companies…not jeans.
Denim’s data-driven platform saves time and money by enabling marketing teams to create, manage, and automatically optimize micro-targeted mobile ad campaigns for their brand and local service providers.