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Where startup CEO pay is up, where it's down and how a gender pay gap persists among men and women founders.
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Where startup CEO pay is up, where it's down, and how a gender pay gap persists among men and women founders.
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'What is . surprising is the way it went down. No one was given any notice.'
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This week's shutdown affected sites in Chicago as well as Dallas, Washington, D.C., and Austin, Texas.
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Learn more about how leaders in Chicago's food innovation scene want to 'step up' at Future-of-Food Week in the wake of Dom's and Foxtrot's recent closures.
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Future-of-Food, a World Business Chicago Venture Summit, returns next week with a bigger space and a full week of events focused on the city's food startup scene.
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Why a Silicon Valley battery startup is moving its R&D headquarters to Chicago.
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Bedrock Materials, a Silicon Valley battery technology startup, said it’s moving its research and development headquarters to Chicago's Fulton Market after raising $9 million in seed funding.
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A Chicago fintech startup that provides a payment platform for businesses raised new funding this week. Learn more here.
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Aeropay has become a platform of choice for many cannabis firms and will be expanding to new industry segments following the raise.
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Midwest VC firm M25 is staying active despite the overall fundraising slowdown. Learn more about its newest investment.
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M25, one of the Midwest's most active venture capital firms, has led an oversubscribed pre-seed round for Chicago-based artificial intelligence-powered startup Continuum.
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How AI heavyweights are looking to combat election disinformation
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This week's The National Beat explores OpenAI's fight against AI election disinformation, Florida Governor's beef with lab-grown meat and Startups to Watch.
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Meet the company that came out on top in our 2024 Inno Madness competition.
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One venture rose to the top in our month-long competition in which readers cast votes to advance companies based on this question, "Which company would you invest in?"
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Find out what Chicago startups should make of the fundraising decline seen in the first quarter of 2024.
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PitchBook released its Q1 2024 startup fundraising numbers, and while Chicago saw a slight bump compared to year-over-year and national numbers, founders continue to face a difficult road as exits...
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Chicago cleantech startup Mycocycle, which trains fungi to eat trash, announced some follow-on investment this week. Learn more here.
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Chicago cleantech startup Mycocycle, which trains fungi to eat trash, announced some follow-on investment this week.
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Chicago startup Honeycomb Insurance announced new funding and plans to grow in 2024. Learn more here.
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Chicago-based Honeycomb Insurance plans to double its head count of 90 employees to 180 within the next 18 months.
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Chicago-based crowdfunding platform GigaStar wants to support YouTube creators in a new way. Here's how.
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GigaStar announced its $1 million YouTube Creators Fund this week to provide discretionary grants to established YouTube creators.
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Startup funding continues to decline, another shakeup at OpenAI, and more startups to watch in the latest National Beat
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is no longer the owner or a managing partner at the eponymous "startup fund" he has been associated with for over two years. In this week's National Beat, we cover that story,...
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Rosalind Franklin University spinout gets a key drug designation from the FDA. Learn more here.
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The designation ties to the company's pursuit of treatment for scleroderma.
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Why LanzaJet thinks sustainable jet fuel is ready to take off in Chicago
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LanzaJet was one of 40 companies and organizations that joined the Sustainable Aviation Fuel coalition this week and is currently in the middle of a $100 million as the federal government has...
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Which of these Chicago-area companies would you invest in? Vote now in the semifinals of this year's Inno Madness competition.
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Find out which four companies advanced to the next round of our annual bracket-style contest — where readers determine the outcome.
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An early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Chicago announced the close of its newest fund. Learn more here.
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Hyde Park Venture Partners, a Chicago-based VC firm that invests in early-stage startups, recently completed the raise of a $98 million fund.
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There were 67 new U.S. names on Forbes' annual billionaires list, more than a quarter of which were tech founders or investors in tech startups.
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Thirty U.S. tech titans have made their debut on Forbes' annual list.
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Find out what SpotHero executive Elan Mosbacher is working on next.
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A former SpotHero executive is shifting from parking to medical spa services designed to provide nurse practitioners with new career opportunities.
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A new Chicago venture wants to give anyone the opportunity to have their own personal wine cellar, accessible at their fingertips.
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Unicorn enables wine and spirts collectors around the world to buy, sell, store and digitally manage their collections online and through an app.
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