Featured on the Chicago Tribune Geofeedia, whose platform helps agencies and organizations collect location-based social media intelligence, on Thursday announced it has raised $3 million, bringing its total funding to $6.8 million. The company in October announced it had raised a $3.5 million in series A funding. CEO Phil Harris said existing investors responded to […]
Featured on Built in Chicago As the new head of the Chicago office of SpaceWays, an on-demand self-storage company, I have become much more in-tune with many of the other on-demand startups around the city. In fact, there has been such a boom of these companies that Chicagoans rarely need to leave the house anymore […]
Featured on Crain’s Chicago Business Jason Felger is taking over the top job at Food Genius from founder Justin Massa. The Chicago technology company, which got its start in 2010, scrapes restaurant menus to provide data about ingredients, pricing and other trends to restaurant suppliers and manufacturers. Food Genius started out selling a simplified dashboard […]
Featured on Crain’s Chicago Business Iris Mobile just raised $2.5 million from Chicago venture funds Origin Ventures, OCA Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners, Hyde Park Angels and Illinois Ventures and Champaign-based Serra Ventures. The Chicago-based software company plans to double its staff to 60 this year, said new CEO Marc Grabowski. Iris Mobile, founded by […]
Featured on ChicagoInno In 2014, venture funding in the mobile sector hit a record $7.8B, up neatly 109% from the year before. And though this volume was driven by a few blockbusters, like Uber’s $1.2B, 70% of all VC deals in the mobile space were in Seed or Series A rounds, suggesting that investors are […]
Featured on Inc. I’m learning a lot about what makes a company great. Recently, I started testing two different services at the same time. They are remarkably similar. They both involve having a real person help me achieve a goal. In one case, the goal is to help me become more organized and to take […]
Featured on Kellogg By nature, B2B start-ups tend to follow one of the golden rules of entrepreneurship: solve a problem; do not chase an idea. This, of course, stems from the fact that B2B companies often deliver products and services that solve existing industry problems. But if you have a solution to an industry problem, […]
A Chicago-based marketplace for non-profits that spawned from Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign raised $1.6 million from some well known investors. Public Good Software, Inc, which helps people donate to the causes and charities they care about, announced the Seed Round Tuesday, which was led by Chicago’s Hyde Park Angels. Other notable investors included WordPress founder Matt […]
Featured on Medium Chicago, IL — January 27, 2015 — Public Good Software, Inc. is expanding its revolutionary online donations marketplace, PublicGood.com, with $1.6M in seed funding from an A-list of Chicago and Silicon Valley angel investors. Chicago’s Hyde Park Angels; Firestarter Fund; Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress; Chuck Templeton, founder of OpenTable; Mike Sands, former COO/CMO of Orbitz […]
Featured on the Chicago Tribune Investors continue to sow seeds in the Midwestern ag tech industry as FarmLogs, a Michigan-based agricultural tech company that launched in 2012, announced Wednesday a $10 million Series B funding round. The news comes one week after a division of Monsanto acquired another Midwestern big data farming startup, Chicago-based 640 […]
