| Date | Title | Description |
| 29.09.2021 | GrayMatter Robotics Raises $4.1M Seed Round | Company will use the funds from Stage Venture Partners, Calibrate Ventures, and others to expand rollouts of its robots used for sanding and finishing parts on manufacturing lines |
| 25.08.2021 | OCA Ventures completes Amplified Sciences’ $1.8M seed round | WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Amplified Sciences, a startup life science diagnostic company, announced that its $1.8 million seed round of funding has been completed by Chicago-based OCA Ventures. Amplified Sciences is developing diagnostics to de... |
| 19.08.2021 | Call center automation startup Balto secures $37M
AI-powered platform
Automation trend | Balto, a call center automation startup based in St. Louis, Missouri, today announced that it raised $37 million in a series B funding round led by Stripes, with participation from RingCentral Ventures, Sierra Ventures, TIA Ventures, OCA Ve... |
| 16.08.2021 | Cake Raises $3.7M to Expand End-of-Life Planning Offerings Amidst Growing Demand | Serving more than 30 million people per year, Cake has emerged as world’s largest online platform for end-of-life planning |
| 16.08.2021 | Osso VR raises $27M to train surgeons via simulations | Osso VR has raised $27 million to train doctors and other medical professionals using virtual reality surgery simulations. |
| 16.08.2021 | Curate Brings In $1.25M Seed For Small Business Sales, Operations Platform | After a year of helping small businesses navigate sales and operations during the global pandemic, Curate has raised a $1.25 million seed to continue developing its modern sales and operations platform for florists, caterers and other creat... |
| 10.05.2021 | Livly and Amenify Announce Partnership to bring Amenities to Multi-Family Buildings Across the U.S. | May 06, 2021, 12:36 ET |
| 28.04.2021 | Votive Health Raises $2.5MM in Funding to Bring Complex Care Home | The health care start-up facilitates payer-provider integration through value-based arrangements to end suffering for people with serious illness. |
| 28.04.2021 | This Founder Wants to Make Sure No Mom Has to Choose Between Her Family and Her Career | Presented by Ally | “There’s nothing that moms can’t do,” says Allison Robinson, who founded The Mom Project to support women at every stage of their professional—and parenthood—journeys. |
| 26.04.2021 | OneMain Acquires Customer-Focused Financial Wellness Fintech Trim
Contacts | NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–OneMain Financial, the country’s largest installment lender to hardworking Americans with nonprime credit, announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Trim, a customer-focused financial wellness... |
| 19.04.2021 | Moving Analytics Raises $6M to Increase Virtual Cardiac Rehab Solutions and Expand Team Amidst Telehealth Industry Growth | LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) APRIL 19, 2021 |
| 12.04.2021 | Telehealth Addiction Treatment Comes of Age
Virtual healthcare, which has proliferated and become more sophisticated during the pandemic, will be an even greater presence in the future | By Jason Langendorf |
| 07.04.2021 | eBlu Solutions Announces $11.4M Series A Round | LOUISVILLE, Ky.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–eBlu Solutions (Louisville, KY) announced today that it has raised an $11.4M Series A round led by OCA Ventures (Chicago), with co-investors Mutual Capital Partners (Cleveland) and FCA Venture Partners’ Healt... |
| 05.04.2021 | FT Partners Advises Snapsheet on its $30,000,000 Series E2 Financing | Overview of Transaction |
| 18.02.2021 | Accenture to hire 150 moms for ‘highly coveted roles’ | By Vanessa Yurkevich |
| 10.02.2021 | PursueCare Partners With Ohio-Based Thrive Peer Support | MIDDLETOWN, Conn. and CLEVELAND, Feb. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — PursueCare and Thrive Peer Support today announced that they have partnered and have launched a statewide collaborative peer support and Substance Use Disorder treatment model ac... |
| 03.02.2021 | Prisidio Raises $3.3 Million Seed Round to Help People Safely Secure Their Most Important Personal Documents and Information Online | CHICAGO – Feb. 3, 2021 – PRLog — Prisidio, a secure online vault where people can store and organize their most important documents and information, today announced a $3.3 million Seed round, co-led by OCA Ventures and Origin Ventures.... |
| 26.01.2021 | InSight + Regroup, the Leading Telepsychiatry Provider, Announces Rebrand, Changes Name to Array Behavioral Care | MOUNT LAUREL, NJ– InSight + Regroup, a recognized leader in telepsychiatry and telebehavioral health has unveiled a new name, new logo and new website as part of an extensive rebranding initiative. The organization will now be known as Arra... |
| 26.01.2021 | Ocient Announces $40 Million Series B to Help Organizations Manage Modern Data Demands
Funding Comes on the Heels of First Petabyte-Scale Deployments for Auction & Exchange Analytics, Security, a... | CHICAGO, Jan. 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ocient, a data analytics solutions (DAS) company serving companies struggling with massive datasets, announced today the completion of a $40 million Series B funding round, bringing total invested c... |
| 23.12.2020 | Ocient will enable much faster analysis of the world’s largest sets of data. | Ocient builds database and analytics software and services to enable rapid analysis of the world’s largest sets of data (trillions to quadrillions of rows of data). For users of Big Data, this will optimize the value of the capture and anal... |
| 23.12.2020 | How BayCare and Clearstep launched a COVID-19 screener in 9 days | On March 26, 2020 — less than two weeks after the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a pandemic and one week after California became the first state in the U.S. to tell residents to stay home — MATTER startup ... |
| 23.12.2020 | Rethinking Software and Risk to Protect the Public Sector
We should build security into the foundation of programs. | Our current approach to cybersecurity, specifically within the public sector, is not working. We continue to spend more and more money on this issue across all industries, as evident in the fact that we have spent $173 billion on cybersecur... |
| 16.12.2020 | The 25 small and midsize companies with the best CEOs in 2020, according to employees | Working at a company with a strong and thoughtful leader can be a very important thing to consider when looking for an employer, and one career site just published its annual list of the most highly ranked CEOs according to employees. |
| 15.12.2020 | Iris Automation raises $13 million for visual drone object avoidance tech | It’s only a matter of time now before drones become a key component of everyday logistics infrastructure, but there are still significant barriers between where we are today and that future — particularly when it comes to regulation. Iris A... |
| 02.12.2020 | The Top 20 Cybersecurity Startups To Watch In 2021 Based On Crunchbase | Today, 797 cybersecurity, privacy and security startups have received a total of $10.73 billion so far this year, with $4.6 million being the median funding round and $17.5 million the average funding round for a startup. The number of star... |
| 02.12.2020 | Facebook Watch Sets Interactive AI Reality Series ‘Rival Peak’ With After-Show Hosted by Wil Wheaton | Facebook Watch is set to launch the first-ever interactive AI reality series, titled “Rival Peak,” on Dec. 2. |
| 02.12.2020 | How Ubiq Security uses APIs to simplify data protection
Lessons from the government | As cyberthreats continue to multiply, startups with tools to protect data are in high demand. But companies are now facing the growing complexity of managing security across their various data sources. |
| 16.10.2020 | Tammi Jantzen of Astarte Medical: “Why you shouldn’t surround yourself with people who look and think exactly as you do” | You shouldn’t surround yourself with people who look and think exactly as you do. You need differing opinions and points of view to truly expand your thinking. Building a diverse team has always been important to us, however, it was never a... |
| 16.10.2020 | Osso VR Secures $14M Investment to Further Develop VR Surgical Training Platform | Osso VR today announced it has raised $14 million in Series A funding to further develop its VR surgical training platform. |
| 16.10.2020 | Health iPASS Featured In New Healthcare Payments Industry Research | Exciting news! Health iPASS features prominently in a recent report produced by Financial Technology Partners in conjunction with QED Investors entitled, “Healthcare Payments: Consumerization and Digitization Create a Massive FinTech Opport... |
| 16.10.2020 | Back-to-school shoppers are showing up after all, study shows | The back-to-school season has been something of a wild card this year, with the pandemic forcing consumers away from stores and students away from schools, not to mention dragging down employment and the economy more broadly. |
| 16.10.2020 | Chicago’s 100 Best Places To Work in 2020 | Looking over this year’s Best Places to Work winners, it’s hard not to get nostalgic for the office, pre-COVID. Talk of tricked-out breakrooms, birthday celebrations, impromptu happy hours and rooftop decks has us pining for the days of int... |
| 16.10.2020 | Fortune 40 Under 40 Healthcare: Suelin Chen | Suelin Chen believes that embracing your own mortality can be a force for good. She’s the CEO of Cake, a web-based service that helps users plan for their end-of-life goals and wishes. The 39-year-old says the pandemic has produced feelings... |
| 16.10.2020 | MPulse Mobile Announces Closing Of Series C Funding Of More Than $16 Million, Led By Optum Ventures | New investment will support mPulse Mobile’s engagement and outcomes strategy through Conversational Artificial Intelligence |
| 16.10.2020 | Balto raises $10 million to analyze call center conversations with AI | Balto, which is developing a conversational AI platform for call centers, today announced the close of a $10 million round. A spokesperson said the capital will enable Balto to triple the size of its go-to-market team while bolstering produ... |
| 12.08.2020 | SpiderOak Mission Systems Adds Recognized Industry Leaders to Federal Advisory Board | New board to guide SpiderOak in setting new standard for secure communications and collaboration in federal marketplace |
| 11.08.2020 | QL Gaming Group acquires TennisInsight to power BetQL tennis | By Chris Murphy -August 11, 2020 |
| 11.08.2020 | mPulse Mobile Announces Closing of Series C Funding of more than $16 Million, Led by Optum Ventures | PR Newswire August 11, 2020 |
| 11.08.2020 | Level I Randomized, Blinded Study Demonstrates Significant Improvement in Surgical Proficiency Using Virtual Reality Training | Josh Sandberg August 10, 2020 |
| 10.08.2020 | Some hospitals are tracking Covid-19 by adding sensors to employees’ badges
‘We could flag when a patient tested positive’
‘Doing everything we can’ | PUBLISHED SUN, AUG 2 2020 9:30 AM EDT |
| 29.07.2020 | PatientWisdom Now Available in Epic App Orchard | NEWS PROVIDED BYPatientWisdom, Inc. |
| 22.07.2020 | MassChallenge HealthTech Announces 2020 Program Prize Winners | Written by Celia Fox |
| 22.07.2020 | Ocient raises $15 million more for ‘exabyte-scale’ database tech | @Kyle_L_Wiggers June 11, 2020 5:00 AM |
| 16.07.2020 | Boom Time for Death Planning
The Obituary Game
The Pandemic Hits
Death & Co. | The coronavirus pandemic has drawn new business to start-ups that provide end-of-life services, from estate planning to a final tweet. |
| 16.07.2020 | Health Catalyst Announces Agreement to Acquire healthfinch, a Healthcare IT Company that has Helped Define the Clinical Workflow Optimization Space with its Award-Winning Software | July 9, 2020 at 4:45 PM EDT |
| 16.07.2020 | Crain’s Chicago Business 2020 Tech 50 | It started as the Tech 25 but quickly grew into the Tech 50. Each year since 2011, we’ve put the spotlight on a mostly new list of names you need to know if you care about Chicago tech—nearly 400 of them. For the 10th edition, we’ve revisit... |
| 13.05.2020 | The best budgeting apps to use right now
Mint: Best budgeting app overall
Simple: Best checking account with a built-in budgeting app
Zeta: Best for couples
Trim: Best for automatically reducing b... | Personal Finance Insider writes about products, strategies, and tips to help you make smart decisions with your money. We may receive a small commission from our partners, but our reporting and recommendations are always independent and obj... |
| 07.05.2020 | The QL Gaming Group, Parent Company of BetQL, Acquires Accuscore and Raises Additional $1.1 Million | NEW YORK, May 6, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — The QL Gaming Group (QLGG), a leading direct to consumer sports data and iGaming affiliate platform, today announced an additional $1.1 million in funding, as well as the acquisition of Finnish spo... |
| 20.04.2020 | Silicon Valley is racing to build the next version of the Internet. Fortnite might get there first. | By Gene Park April 17, 2020 at 1:19 p.m. CDT |
| 13.04.2020 | How A Female Finance Pro Became A Pioneer In Healthcare Innovation | EDITORS’ PICK|653 views|Apr 10, 2020, 07:00am EDT |
| 06.04.2020 | Here are 3 ways to save money amid coronavirus | By GMA Team |
| 03.04.2020 | Livly Inc. Raises $8 Million in Fundraising to Transform Property Management and Resident Communications | New funding led by Geolo Capital, OCA Ventures and Founder Equity |
| 19.03.2020 | PursueCare Announces Series A Funding To Meet Increasing Demand For Telehealth Addiction Treatment Services At Home During COVID-19 Outbreak | NEWS PROVIDED BYPursueCare |
| 18.03.2020 | Streaming tools provider Genvid raises $6M to ‘sell the virtual equivalent of front row seats’ | Sam Desatoff, March 17, 2020 12:54 PM |
| 09.03.2020 | Nasdaq Acquires Institutional Investment Fintech Firm Solovis | Solovis will pair with eVestment to deliver investment data, portfolio analytics and monitoring across public and private markets |
| 26.02.2020 | MPULSE MOBILE INCREASES SUPPORT OF MEDICARE ADVANTAGE AND MEDICAID HEALTH PLANS THROUGH KEY SOLUTIONS AND TECHNOLOGY PATENT | By Josh Ades Posted February 25, 2020 |
| 30.01.2020 | The most promising Philly tech companies in this new decade: RealLIST Startups 2020
10. FORT Robotics
9. Simply Good Jars
8. GoCoach
7. Avisi Technologies
6. QuotaPath
5. Gettacar
4. NICKL
3. ... | The startups chosen for this year’s roundup vary in product and in mission, but represent innovative approaches and solutions across rising industries in Philadelphia and beyond. |
| 24.01.2020 | Placer.ai, a location data analytics startup, raises $12 million Series A | Catherine Shu@catherineshu / 7:00 am CST • January 22, 2020 |
| 10.01.2020 | Progentec Raises $5M in Series A Funding Led by Plains Venture Partners | – Commercializing aiSLE DX Flare Prediction Test, a new blood-based biomarker laboratory test for the prediction of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) flares |
| 10.01.2020 | The story of two women who’ve raised more than $6 million to start their own ‘fem tech’ company for women and children’s health | Collin West and Nihar Neelakanti, Kauffman Fellows Fund Oct 4, 2019, 10:29 AM |
| 10.12.2019 | Distance mental-health provider Regroup merges | The Chicago-based startup has combined with an established player to form what it hopes will be an industry juggernaut. |
| 02.12.2019 | Genvid Technologies Announces Series B – Raises $27M to Accelerate Interactive Streaming Tools + Services | NEW YORK, Nov. 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Genvid Technologies Inc., a developer of interactive streaming technologies for game developers, media companies and sports broadcasters, announces its Series B fundraise. |
| 21.10.2019 | 10 tech startups focused on improving life for older Americans
Baby Boomers have immense buying power, and Silicon Valley is taking notice.
1. Papa: Grandkids-on-Demand
2. Silvernest: Airbnb altern... | by Benjamin Lampkin |
| 26.09.2019 | Balto, Real-time AI Call-Guidance Software, raises additional $3 million in Seed funding | Balto, the world’s first artificial intelligence software for real-time call guidance and coaching, announced today that it closed a $3 million seed financing round. |
| 26.08.2019 | SpotHero Scoops Up $50M | By Jim Dallke -August 22, 2019 |
| 25.07.2019 | mPulse Mobile ranks on 100+ artificial intelligence companies to know in healthcare | 2019 | Jenna Bloom and Laura Dyrda – Friday, July 19th, 2019 |
| 02.07.2019 | VYNCA RAISES $10.3 MILLION IN SERIES B FUNDING | PALO ALTO, Calif., June 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Vynca, the nation’s leading advance care planning solution, announced today that it has secured $10.3 million in Series B funding from First Trust Capital Partners, OCA Ventures, and Spectrum ... |
| 27.06.2019 | Exclusive: Waze partners with SpotHero | SpotHero is integrating Waze, a navigation app owned by Google, into its app, Kia Kokalitcheva reports. Waze will navigate SpotHero’s customers to their pre-booked parking spots. |
| 25.06.2019 | The #PopHealth Show: Bob Saunders @ Oca Ventures – Health Innovation Focused | Join us today as we speak with Bob Saunders from Oca Ventures about health innovation focused. |
| 21.05.2019 | Impossible Objects Unveils Next-Generation 3D Printer, Partners with BASF to Bring Industry-First Composite to 3D Printing
Contacts | The CBAM-2 3D printing system delivers complex parts at production speeds and volumes, while partnership with BASF makes strong, heat-tolerant PA6-carbon fiber composite parts printable at scale |
| 13.05.2019 | Astarte Medical Secures $5 Million in Series A Financing to Advance its Technology for Improving Preterm Infant Outcomes | Company’s NICUtrition® suite of digital tools and diagnostics is designed to standardize feeding, optimize nutrition and quantify gut health in premature infants |
| 04.04.2019 | Custom Ink Welcomes New Investors Led by Great Hill Partners | FAIRFAX, Va. & BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Apr 4, 2019–Custom Ink, the leader in custom apparel for groups, companies, and communities, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with an investor group led by Great Hill Partn... |
| 27.03.2019 | Startup Matching Foreign Med Students With U.S. Rotations Raises $2.2M | A Chicago startup with ties to the University of Chicago that provides international medical students and graduates with clinical training at U.S. healthcare systems just raised a new round of funding. |
| 27.02.2019 | Chicago VC Firm OCA Ventures Opens Silicon Valley Office | By Jim Dallke -February 27, 2019 |
| 17.12.2018 | The Mom Project, a job site for moms returning to work, nabs $8M from Initialized and more
From selling diapers to changing diapers
Contract work is king (and queen) | If you are a mother who has taken a break from full-time employment to raise kids, you may have also experienced the challenge that is jumping back into the working world after your break. |
| 06.12.2018 | WhiteFox Defense lands $12 million as the demand for drone defense technologies intensifies | Jonathan Shieber@jshieber |
| 21.11.2018 | Luke Fox featured in Forbes 30 Under 30: Manufacturing & Industry 2019 | - |
| 21.11.2018 | WhiteFox Impresses U.S. DoD At World’s Largest Counter-drone Testing Event | WhiteFox Defense Technologies, Inc., a drone airspace defense and security company, had their flagship product, DroneFox, participate as selected equipment by the U.S. Government for the prestigious Black Dart counter-UAS and Red Teaming ex... |
| 14.11.2018 | Progentec Gains Additional Funding for Lupus Detection and Management Platforms | NOVEMBER 9, 2018 |
| 01.11.2018 | Pitch Perfect Winner Spotlight: The startup tackling cardiac rehab with technology | Moving Analytics is a startup trying to address socio-economic factors that make it difficult to complete rehab in a traditional brick-and-mortar facility through a tech-enabled home rehab system. |
| 01.11.2018 | Progentec Diagnostics, Inc. Raises Funds to Support Advances in Lupus Detection and Management | — New funding brings lupus-detection tools closer to commercialization |
| 29.10.2018 | Balto Software raises $1.2 million and is ‘aggressively hiring’ | Balto Software of St. Louis, which uses artificial intelligence to make call-center representatives more effective, announced Thursday that it has raised $1.2 million in capital. |
| 11.09.2018 | Zendesk expands into CRM with Base acquisition | Zendesk has mostly confined itself to customer service scenarios, but it seems that’s not enough anymore. If you want to truly know the customer behind the interaction, you need a customer system of record to go with the customer service co... |
| 10.09.2018 | OverWatchID Closes $2.5M Financing Round Led By WestWave Capital and Silicon Valley Data Capital | Cybersecurity Firm Extends Seed Round Following Strong VC Interest |
| 07.09.2018 | Solovis Recognized As 2018 Top Startup | September 6, 2018 |
| 23.08.2018 | Genvid raises $10 million from Horizons Ventures for an interactive streaming engine | Genvid Technologies has raised $10 million in funding for its interactive streaming engine. The money came from Horizons Ventures, the private investment arm of Hong Kong business magnate Li Ka-shing. |
| 25.07.2018 | Levyx Debuts Radon™, the Industry’s First Low-Latency Key-Value Solution Designed Specifically for +1000 Node Exascale Opportunities | IRVINE, Calif., July 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Levyx Inc., a provider of system software for low latency big data platforms and applications to dramatically reduce Big Data infrastructure costs, announced today the availability of its new... |
| 17.07.2018 | An Indeed.com for mothers who want to re-enter the workforce | On maternity leave from Procter & Gamble in 2015, Allison Robinson came across the statistic that 40 percent of professional women leave the workforce once they’re moms. By choice or circumstance? Was there a business matching women who... |
| 17.05.2018 | New EdMap Initiative Offers No Cost Books to Students under the Truition Partnership | No fees. No book costs. No surprises. These are the benefits new and current Columbia College of Missouri online and nationwide location students will experience this fall with the launch of the college’s TruitionSM initiative. |
| 17.05.2018 | Levyx and Serisys Partner to Offer Best-in-Class, Capital Markets Transaction Processing Platform | Levyx Inc. and Serisys Solutions Ltd. announced plans to provide real-time, cost-effective access to the large amount of “static” data required for effective real-time processing of securities transactions through the entire post-trade life... |
| 17.05.2018 | EdMap Partnership Offers Students Free Textbooks and eTexts | Columbia College, a private non-profit college headquartered in Columbia, Missouri, has announced a new partnership with Ed Map, Inc. to serve as the official etext and book provider for the college’s Adult Higher Education and Online Educa... |
| 01.05.2018 | mPulse to Enhance Patient Engagement Across CityMD’s 85 Urgent Care Centers in New York City | mPulse Mobile, the healthcare industry’s leading provider of mobile solutions for engaging and activating consumers, announced today that CityMD, the leading urgent care provider in the New York Metro Area, is leveraging their interactive t... |
| 25.04.2018 | Ford Latest Fortune 500 to Purchase Impossible Objects’ 3D Printers | Impossible Objects today announced that Ford Motor Company, the best-selling car brand in America and ranked in the top 10 of the Fortune 500, is a customer. |
| 12.04.2018 | Intel Partners with Levyx to Offer Enhanced Risk Analytics and Financial Backtesting | Levyx’s Financial Backtesting solution, along with the Acceleration Stack for Intel® Xeon® CPU with FPGAs on the Intel Programmable Acceleration Card (PAC) with Intel Arria® 10 GX FPGA, allows you to accelerate financial backtesting in orde... |
| 02.04.2018 | Impossible Objects Receives 2018 Award for Excellence in Composite Manufacturing | SME Recognizes Leaders in Composites Manufacturing at AeroDef 2018 |
| 27.03.2018 | Tenor acquired by Google | Making it easier to find and share GIFs with Google |
| 27.02.2018 | AddStructure Acquired by BazaarVoice to Boost Machine Learning & NLP Capabilities | Startup’s machine learning and natural language processing capabilities analyze and distill the most relevant consumer reviews
AUSTIN, Texas, February 23, 2018 – Bazaarvoice, Inc., a leading provider of consumer-generated content (CGC), adv... |
| 26.02.2018 | Tenor reaches incredible 2 billion GIF searches every month | David McIntosh’s startup Tenor builds a GIF keyboard — but he actually hopes you’ll spend as little time searching on it as possible. |
| 10.01.2018 | Google’s Android Assistant to Partner with SpotHero through Android Auto | It’s no secret that for Google, this year’s CES is all about the Google Assistant. One Google product where the Assistant hasn’t really made any inroads yet, though, is Android Auto. Starting this week, though, Android Auto users in the U.S... |
| 07.12.2017 | New Money: LogicGate Raises $1.9M to Help Businesses Automate Risk and Compliance | Deal: $1.9 million seed round |
