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Virtual experience company Geniecast brings the speaker to you
Looking to book a thought leader for your next event? Look no further. Imagine gathering a group of friends, flipping on your flat screen, and voilà – your favorite chef greets your guests for an interactive cooking class. Perhaps your company is looking to engage a notable author for a company retreat, or you are…
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DisruptOps raises $2.5 million seed round
KANSAS CITY, MO – DisruptOps, founded in 2014, has raised $2.5 million in a seed round funding from California-based Rally Ventures on July 20, 2018. Cyber Security Veteran, Gary Fish, and seed investor and Director of Phantom Cyber and former Sourcefire CFO Todd Headley also participated in the round. The company is a provider of…
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ChecktheQ transforms the venue experience
Travelers, sports fans and consumers of all kinds routinely experience wait times of some sort. The wait at airport security, sports concessions, or the amusement park can lead to dread, anxiety and a fundamentally worse experience. ChecktheQ aims to change that by empowering airports, stadiums, retailers and other venues to mitigate these wait times to…
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Lightgliders aims to inspire hope and purpose through fun and games
Zach Fay and his sister Julie McWilliams are the startup founders of Kingdom Scene, which launched Lightgliders in 2014. Their idea was to utilize digital games and activities as a way to engage kids and impart biblical principles. The St. Louis-based company has created a digital game world and online community for kids that is…
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Provider Pool seeks to connect healthcare professionals with healthcare facilities at a lower cost
Janna Westbrook, Tiffany Davis, and Terry Williams are three nurses who decided to create a solution to decrease staffing costs for healthcare facilities. The entrepreneurs quit their jobs and started Provider Pool in August 2018. Silicon Prairie News met with Ms. Westbrook at the tech incubator, T-REX, where the three co-founders have been building their…
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Startup Connection draws companies and crowds in its 10th year
Startup Connection, the St. Louis regional celebration of entrepreneurship, marked its 10th year on November 7 at the Globe Building in downtown St. Louis. The event pulled together 66 startup companies under one roof, ballooning from 200 attendees its first year, to over 1,100 on Wednesday night. On the roster this year were companies such…
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64 startups chosen for St. Louis Startup Connection Venture Showcase coming Nov. 7
Startup Connection 2018, the St. Louis region’s largest event celebrating innovation and entrepreneurship, has announced the 64 Venture Showcase companies selected for 2018. Startup Connection showcases some of the top early-stage startup ventures in St. Louis across a variety of industry sectors including: advanced manufacturing, biotech, consumer products, education, FinTech, and tech. Last year’s event…
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Coolfire Solutions Lands Big Round
St. Louis startup Coolfire Solutions raised $11.5 million dollars last week from Clayton Capital, a firm closely tied to Enterprise Rent-a-Car, and IrishAngels. The firm, which provides real-time situational awareness via their Ronin Platform helps customers understand the environment in which they find themselves. Specifically, Ronin provides an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that can…
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St. Louis company Benson Hill Biosystems raises $60 million in venture funding
Benson Hill Biosystems closed a $60 million series C venture funding deal on September 10, 2018. Participants in the deal include Alexandria Venture Investments, Activant Capital Group, S2G Ventures (Seed 2 Growth), Mercury Fund, iSelect Fund, Lewis and Clark Ventures, Prolog Ventures, Prelude Ventures, Tao Capital, and Fall Line Capital. The funding will be used…
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St. Louis startup WatchUGot looks to bring challenges and charities together
By now, viral internet challenges are nothing new. For years, these challenges have made their way through social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube––a few even originating as far back as the days of MySpace. While many of these challenges can tend towards the irreverent or even border on dangerous, some can also have positive…