St. Louis and Missouri

  • Johego improves social service access in Missouri’s communities

    Johego improves social service access in Missouri’s communities

    Michael Kehoe recognized a gap in the social enterprise space while attending church one Sunday morning. “I decided to stick around for free donuts and coffee after church […] and I observed an elderly gentleman approach a very haggard stranger and patiently inquire about the stranger’s needs,” said Kehoe. “By memory, he directed him to…

  • Coalition forms to develop Kansas City-St. Louis Hyperloop route

    Coalition forms to develop Kansas City-St. Louis Hyperloop route

    Anyone who tells you Kansas City baseball is preferable to what you’ll experience at Busch Stadium in St. Louis is profoundly misguided, or a biased lifelong resident of Kansas City. Anyone who tells you the BBQ you’ll find in St. Louis is preferable to what you can get at Arthur Bryant’s in Kansas City is…

  • St. Louis-based Traaqr makes public launch at SF TechCrunch Disrupt

    St. Louis-based Traaqr makes public launch at SF TechCrunch Disrupt

    Last week, St. Louis-based startup Traaqr (pronounced tracker) announced the public release of their new product at San Francisco’s TechCrunch Disrupt. Traaqr’s release marks the first fully-automated platform able to track online to offline call conversions with the same precision as e-commerce transactions. Brian Handrigan, co-founder and co-CEO of Traaqr, likened the problem to a…

  • St. Louis accelerator invests in high-potential agtech startups

    St. Louis accelerator invests in high-potential agtech startups

    By the time I was 27, my wife and I were the parents of three children, including a 9-year-old. That isn’t bragging—it’s more a testament to our poor family-planning skills. For many of those years, I worked for nonprofits or the state government, and my wife was a stay-at-home parent. That meant we didn’t have…

  • St. Louis Announces $5 Million Dollar “Spirit of St. Louis” Seed Stage Fund

    St. Louis Announces $5 Million Dollar “Spirit of St. Louis” Seed Stage Fund

    Paul Heirendt, a principal at True Bearing Advisors and co-founder of multiple startups, has first-hand experience with how hard it can be for entrepreneurs to find seed funding in St. Louis. “Of the nine startups I’ve been involved with in St. Louis in the last few years, four had to relocate to find adequate seed-stage funding,” said Heirendt. Relocation is far from the worst thing that can happen to…

  • St. Louis-based startup Hoperator makes public debut with live chat hospitality services

    St. Louis-based startup Hoperator makes public debut with live chat hospitality services

    St. Louis-based Hoperator, a live chat and social messaging platform which increases lead conversions and guest loyalty for independently owned travel and hospitality businesses, made its public launch last month. Co-founder Michael Foltz previously lived in Krakow, Poland where he owned and managed hostels including Stranger Hostel, a Lonely Planet Blue List Recipient as one…

  • PowerPost expands outside of St. Louis with Chicago acquisition

    PowerPost expands outside of St. Louis with Chicago acquisition

    PowerPost, an automated marketing software company headquartered out of St. Louis, announced last week that it had acquired Social Media Beast, one of Chicago, Illinois’ premier content marketing agencies. The acquisition is the third large transaction for PowerPost within the last 18 months and will add nearly 100 new clients to PowerPost, in addition to…

  • Arch Grants Recipient From NYC Acquires St. Louis Tech Publication EQ

    Arch Grants Recipient From NYC Acquires St. Louis Tech Publication EQ

    St. Louis, MO — Longneck & Thunderfoot, LLC (“L&T”), a marketing agency focused on digital storytelling and content marketing strategies, announced it has acquired EQ, St. Louis’ leading tech and entrepreneurship publication, from co-founder and owner Kelly Hamilton. The acquisition was completed on Friday, June 16. L&T was started out of Columbia University’s Startup Lab…

  • Graduates of St. Louis’s Capital Innovators preparing for annual Demo Day

    Graduates of St. Louis’s Capital Innovators preparing for annual Demo Day

    Graduates of St. Louis’s Capital Innovators are preparing for the accelerator’s annual Demo Day on May 16. 10 startups from the graduating class will present their investor pitches to an audience of over 700 potential investors, customers and supporting members of the Midwest and St. Louis’s startup scene. AEGIS and Atomic Revenue are sponsoring a…

  • Our 10 favorite Missouri startup stories of 2016

    Our 10 favorite Missouri startup stories of 2016

    Silicon Prairie News covers the tech startup scene across Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri. Here are our most popular stories from Missouri this year: 1. How Ulytic solves urban traffic problems in real time (Columbia) The urban traffic analytics startup from Columbia, Missouri, joined the Straight Shot accelerator in Omaha, Nebraska, this summer. 2. QA with Alicia…