| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.06.2021 | iRx Reminder one of four semifinalists in the 2021 bioLOGIC Innovation Awards | iRxReminder has been selected as one of the Startup organizations who have advanced to the 2021 BIA Finals. They are among a diverse cohort of four entrepreneurs from the region, each uniquely tackling a public health problem with passion, ... |
| 26.03.2021 | IF Portfolio Company BoxCast Buys Competitor After Big Gains During Pandemic | Cleveland-based streaming company BoxCast is announcing today that it has purchased a similar streaming business, Stream Monkey. This news comes after BoxCast announced in 2020 that it had raised $20 million from investors.
News 5 first vis... |
| 09.02.2021 | JuggerBot 3D Launches Distribution Network with JBM Group | Since introducing their Tradesman Series™ line of industrial grade additive systems in 2019, JuggerBot 3D has partnered with organizations like DSM Additive Manufacturing and Oak Ridge National Laboratories to develop materials and process ... |
| 30.03.2020 | Lorain County Community College Donates Medical Supplies To Hospitals | Lorain County Community College donated hundreds of boxes of medical supplies to four Lorain County hospitals: Cleveland Clinic Avon Hospital; Mercy Health’s Lorain and Allen hospital locations; and University Hospitals Elyria Medical Cente... |
| 27.03.2020 | Innovation Fund Company JuggerBot 3D Is Addressing The PPE Shortage | YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Medical centers across the country are facing a shortage of the personal protective equipment to safely treat patients diagnosed with COVID-19.
Caring for a patient in intensive care for a full day requires 36 pairs of gl... |
| 16.03.2020 | Innovation Fund Company Navage's Timing Is On The Nose | In 2015, RhinoSystems Inc., the Brooklyn seller of Navage, a nasal irrigation system, trademarked the phrase, "Nasal Hygiene will be to the 21st Century what Oral Hygiene was to the 20th!"
The catchphrase even is plastered over th... |
| 09.03.2020 | Innovation Fund Graduate Mbrio Tech Featured In Cleveland Plain Dealer | CLEVELAND, Ohio — In 2006, Julianne Klinger was pregnant with her first child with husband Jonathan. They were living in Jonathan’s native England, where midwives urge pregnant women to play music for their unborn babies to promote bonding.... |
| 02.03.2020 | AI startups LIFTR and Prophit.ai want to hire people, not replace them | The Cleveland startup LIFTR uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help companies model how audiences will engage with ads, saving businesses the time and money of traditional A/B testing. Although it just released its first product in Januar... |
| 19.02.2020 | Innovation Fund Awards $225,000 to 4 Northeast Ohio Start-Up Companies | February 17, 2019 |Elyria, OH: Innovation Fund Northeast Ohio, the region’s most active pre-seed fund for technology-based startups, has awarded a combined $225,000 to 4 young companies. These companies will receive Innovation Fund awards r... |
| 12.02.2020 | See How Innovation Fund NEO Recipient RooSense Is Using Cutting-Edge Technology To Battle Dehydration | For athletes, getting enough water is simple, right? You take a drink when you’re thirsty. But one Ohio company is showing that runners, competitors and others have been approaching hydration with a stone-age mindset. Akron startup RooSense... |
| 03.02.2020 | Innovation Fund Company Hedgemon is a Game Changer | AKRON, Ohio — Emily Kennedy, and her Akron-based start-up Hedgemon, just might be part of the solution to football's concussion troubles.
Kennedy and her team are hoping to change the game with help from a hedgehog.
"We were pretty sur... |
| 30.01.2020 | Innovation Fund Winner Fontus Blue is Using Tech to Clean Your Drinking Water | How The Akron Startup Is Fixing Old Methods With New Tech
After decades of technological advances, you would assume the tech used to clean our drinking water has kept up with other industries. But that’s not necessarily true — just ask Font... |
| 23.01.2020 | Innovation Fund Recipient RoadPrintz Inc. signs license agreement with CWRU to advance robotic street-painting technology | Automated truck invention makes road-painting safer, faster, cheaper
A new invention by a former Cleveland Heights auto repair-shop owner and Case Western Reserve University engineering professor promises to make painting streets cheaper, f... |
| 15.01.2020 | Innovation Fund Winners Hyr Medical and Axuall are partnering up to pilot digital credentialing for physicians | Hyr Medical — a Cleveland startup that connects health care providers to places to practice — has partnered with Axuall, a digital verification company, also in Cleveland, to pilot portable digital credentials across portions of Hyr's netwo... |
| 13.01.2020 | The Birth of a Baby-tech Startup | Inspiration arrives in unexpected ways.
Thirteen years ago, Jonathan Klinger came home from work to find his wife, Julianne, in the living room of their home in Cambridge, England. She was holding a CD player and had big earmuff-sized headp... |
| 11.12.2019 | Innovation Fund Commits $275,000 to 5 Northeast Ohio Startup Companies | December 9, 2019 |Elyria, OH: Innovation Fund Northeast Ohio, the region’s most active pre-seed fund for technology-based startups, has awarded $275,000 to five startup companies. These companies are due to receive Innovation Fund awards ra... |
| 09.12.2019 | Innovation Fund Awardee Hyr Medical Offers a Solution to Healthcare Staffing | Healthcare staffing has long been a big business — and a major spend category for hospitals and healthcare systems.
But are the established staffing models meeting the needs and expectations of healthcare delivery organizations and continge... |
| 25.11.2019 | iRxReminder wins AMIA 2019 PitchIT | iRx Reminder wins national AMIA 2019 PitchIT contest in Washington DC
iRx Reminder, a Cleveland-based start-up, selected as the winner of the 3rd annual American Medical Informatics Association competition in Washington DC.
Cleveland, OH- T... |
| 25.11.2019 | Farm Fare Wants to Help the Environment with Small Farms | What if eating locally sourced food wasn't just a trend or a bonus, but a way of life? That's the vision for Farm Fare, a Cleveland startup that created a custom software to help small farms compete with large, industrialized competitors by... |
| 18.11.2019 | 4 Innovation Fund Winners Chosen As The Best Tech Startups In Cleveland For 2020 | The Tech Tribune recently released a list of the best tech startups in Cleveland for 2020. Out of the ten companies chosen, 4 of them were Innovation Fund NEO award winners. These companies are Heureka Software, BoxCast, iRx Reminder, and F... |
| 18.11.2019 | Innovation Fund Awardee Hedgemon to Compete in NFL Helmet Challenge | The NFL kicked off its helmet challenge with a symposium in Youngstown Thursday.
The NFL Helmet Challenge is offering $3 million in grants and award money to the developer of a new, safer helmet that outperforms current helmets.
About 300 p... |
| 30.10.2019 | Innovation Fund Graduate MedCity News Acquired By Breaking Media | Breaking Media, the owner of b-to-b sites like Fashionista, has acquired MedCity News as an attempt to branch into the health-care market.
MedCity News is the leading online news source for the business of innovation in healthcare. It offer... |
| 24.10.2019 | Innovation Fund Recipient RoadPrintz Devises An Inexpensive Way To Paint Lines On Streets | Workers painting lines on resurfaced roads need to wait 40 minutes for the paint to dry before moving on. If they lift the stencils too soon, the paint will smear. RoadPrintz Founder Sam Bell knew there had to be an easier way.
So he decide... |
| 10.10.2019 | LCCC holds open house for renovated Campana Center | Members of local businesses and community members gathered Oct. 3 at Lorain County Community College to see how the Patsie C, and Dolores Jenee Campana Center for Ideation and Invention has expanded to offer a myriad of tools that help brin... |
| 07.10.2019 | Augment Therapy Could Secure Up To $750,000 In Funding Due To Youngstown Business Incubator Shark Tank Event | As the finalists of the Youngstown Business Incubator’s inaugural Shark Tank event left the stage May 3, they were happy with what they walked away with: some prize money and access to the expertise of five local investors and the YBI.
But ... |
| 02.10.2019 | Come Join Us at the Campana Center Opening | Join us on October 3rd as we celebrate the Campana Center’s most recent expansion, which includes spaces designed to bring a community of ideas to life. A regional hot-spot for makers, inventors and businesses the Campana Center gives every... |
| 29.08.2019 | How Tech Company JuggerBot 3D is Rethinking Manufacturing | The framework of american manufacturing is changing once again. Zac Divencenzo, co-founder of JuggerBot 3D, is on the cutting edge of this new revolution. JuggerBot 3D is a technology company responsible for creating a line of engineering-g... |
| 28.08.2019 | 3 Innovation Fund Companies Selected for VentureOhio's 50 Startups to Watch | VentureOhio recently released its list of the Top 50 Startups to Watch for 2019. Three of the startups listed are Innovation Fund companies. The Innovation Fund companies mentioned are Folio Photonics, Heureka Software, and Wisr. Folio Phot... |
| 26.08.2019 | Innovation Fund Awards $225,000 to 3 Northeast Ohio Start-Up Companies | August 14, 2019 | Elyria, OH: Innovation Fund Northeast Ohio, the region’s most active pre-seed fund for technology-based startups, has awarded a combined $225,000 to 3 startup companies. These companies will receive Innovation Fund awards ... |
| 15.08.2019 | Can Hedgehogs Make Football Safer? | If you have ever seen a Hedgehog before, you may wonder how the quills on their back work. When a hedgehog falls, its spine functions as a shock-absorber and protects it. If these quills could somehow be replicated for humans, they could po... |
| 31.07.2019 | SPR Therapeutics Revolutionizes Pain Relief With New Medical Device | Currently in the midst of an opiod crisis, patients and doctors have been looking far and wide to discover a solution that could offer less invasive surgeries as well as less harmful side effects. This is where SPR Therapeutics takes over. ... |
| 25.07.2019 | Groupmatics is tool for star-studded event | There are quite a few reasons why the MLB All-Star Game's return to Cleveland in July was special for Matt Mastrangelo.
The Groupmatics founder and CEO is a Northeast Ohio native who got his start in sales as an account executive with the C... |
| 08.05.2019 | Innovation Fund Awards a Combined $737K to 14 start-up companies over the past 6 months | Innovation Fund Northeast Ohio, the region’s most active pre-seed fund for technology-based startups, has awarded a combined $737,500 to 14 startup companies over the past six months. The companies will receive Innovation Fund awards of bet... |
| 27.11.2018 | Innovation Fund awards $375,000 to 6 Northeast Ohio startups | Innovation Fund Northeast Ohio, the region’s most active pre-seed fund for technology-based startups, has awarded a combined $375,000 to six young companies. The startups will match the Innovation Fund awards, between $25,000 and $100,000, ... |
| 04.11.2018 | Akron software developers take a deep dive into recruiting | Ask 12 recruiters or hiring managers what is wrong with talent acquisition and you will likely get a dozen different answers. An Akron startup aims to tackle at least one of those issues.
DeepHire, launched by recent University of Akron gra... |
| 17.10.2018 | Making your text messages more exciting with Vlipsy | The Vlipsy app, created here in Northeast Ohio, can make your text messages a bit more exciting.
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| 02.09.2018 | MedaSync's founder has experience on his side | Gene Groys, the entrepreneur behind OnShift, is taking the lessons he learned from launching that company and applying them to his new venture: MedaSync.
He isn't straying far from his expertise.
OnShift is a Cleveland-based post-acute care... |
| 19.03.2018 | Innovation Fund Commits $250,000 to Local Tech Startups | Innovation Fund Northeast Ohio, the region’s most active pre-seed fund for technology-based startups, has awarded a combined $250,000 to six companies. The startups will use the awards – between $25,000 and $100,000 – to complete specific p... |
| 06.03.2018 | BoxCast Ready to Go Pro As Simple Streaming Platform Gains Visibility | New Deal with 1SourceVideo Puts H.264 Box On Sale Through B&H, Adorama and DVE Store
BoxCast CEO and co-founder Gordon Daily says he realized the business world needed a simple, plug-and-play streaming video solution years ago, when he ... |
| 27.02.2018 | Cleveland lighting company Mr. Beams soon to be part of Amazon | Cleveland-area entrepreneurs David Levine and Michael Recker have received plenty of accolades for the Mr. Beams battery-operated, motion-sensing lights they first introduced more than a decade ago.
But perhaps the greatest validation came ... |
| 06.02.2018 | Babysitting app Komae, based in Akron, puts tech spin to sharing child care | It's expensive and time-consuming to find a babysitter for date night. So mom-entrepreneurs Audrey Wallace and Amy Husted created a business to fix that.
Their website and free app, Komae, manages a babysitting co-op among friends. Moms ear... |
| 02.02.2018 | Exero Labs, founded by Zoltan Mesko, is a finalist in Super Bowl startup competition | Zoltan Mesko is in Minneapolis for Super Bowl weekend, but not just because he's a former New England Patriots punter who loves the game.
This Chagrin Falls resident has shifted his focus to tackling perhaps the biggest health issue facing ... |
| 08.01.2018 | Ring acquires Mr. Beams LED maker Wireless Environment | Ring has acquired local LED maker Wireless Environment, a deal that generated "a big return" for JumpStart Inc. and the individuals who invested in the company, according to co-founder David Levine.
The Mayfield Village-based comp... |
| 08.01.2018 | Cleveland startup Mr. Beams purchased by home security company Ring | Mr. Beams, a Cleveland-based LED lighting technology company, has been purchased by Ring, a leader in home security, it was announced Monday at CES, the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas.
The combined businesses will integrate smart, e... |
| 15.12.2017 | 5 Questions with the founder of Vlipsy | Vlipsy—a new video clip search engine that lets users quickly find and share quotes and scenes from their favorite internet videos—is one of the newest companies to join the Innovation Fund portfolio. Here’s what CEO and co-founder, Chris N... |
| 10.12.2017 | Doctors Use Virtual Reality to Prepare for Surgeries | Felicia Luna had a really bad headache. She said the painful pressure felt “like someone was squeezing my head really tight.”
The pain became so bad that the 41-year-old woman could not lie down and rest her head on a pillow.
Felicia Luna, ... |
| 08.12.2017 | Five Technology Startups Win Innovation Fund Awards | Funds accelerate the progress of Northeast Ohio’s young, high-growth companies
Innovation Fund Northeast Ohio, the region’s most active pre-seed fund for technology-based startups, has awarded a combined $165,000 to five young companies. Si... |
| 09.11.2017 | Brandyn Armstrong's Studio Stick wins 'Steve Harvey's Funderdome' | Aspiring rapper Brandyn Armstrong wanted to go to a professional audio studio to record his music, but he didn't have money or transportation.
He needed a portable home studio that he could use at any time. So he invented one.
"I creat... |
| 07.11.2017 | Cleveland-based Thermalin gets funding for diabetes research | Case Western Reserve University diabetes researcher Dr. Michael Weiss is determined to unlock the mysteries surrounding diabetes.
The company he co-founded, Cleveland-based Thermalin, Inc., uses cutting-edge science to alter the insulin mol... |
| 11.10.2017 | Canton startup Vlipsy makes some noise with $1.3 million in seed financing | Vlipsy, a Canton startup that helps people augment their online communications with video clips that include sound, announced it has raised $1.3 million in seed funding from investors that include JumpStart Inc., North Coast Angel Fund, Imp... |
| 28.09.2017 | LCCC picked for program on intellectual property | Lorain County Community College announced it is one of six colleges nationally, and the only one in Ohio, to be chosen to participate in an innovative program that provides intellectual property curriculum for entrepreneurs at the undergrad... |
| 18.09.2017 | A New Home for the Future of Manufacturing | Campana Center for Ideation and Invention promotes innovation and job growth in Northeast Ohio with access to cutting-edge digital manufacturing and fabrication capabilities
Growing up in Lorain County, Bob Campana was mesmerized by the man... |
| 15.09.2017 | Ohio Third Frontier provides grants to two Cleveland tech startups | Two Cleveland startups on Friday, Sept. 15, received a total of $250,000 from the Ohio Third Frontier Commission to help them advance their technology and accelerate the process of getting products to market.
The money comes from the Ohio T... |
| 13.09.2017 | SPR Therapeutics raises $25 million in Series C financing | SPR Therapeutics Inc., a medical device company in Highland Hills that has developed a neurostimulation platform for chronic and acute pain, announced on Tuesday morning, Sept. 12, that it has received $25 million in Series C financing.
The... |
| 12.09.2017 | Innovation Fund Northeast Ohio Awards $150,000 to 4 Tech Businesses | 40th cycle marks 10-year anniversary for fund that’s committed more than $12 million to startups
Innovation Fund Northeast Ohio, the region’s most active pre-seed fund for technology-based startups, has awarded a combined $150,000 to four y... |
| 12.09.2017 | The path from idea to patent | When faculty members at research institutions make discoveries, their next steps are clear: Disclose the innovation to the tech transfer office, where the idea will be reviewed before filing a patent application.
But outside of research ins... |
| 12.09.2017 | Why Your Hospital Just Hired a Video-Game Developer | The patient is lying on the table in front of me, bright fluorescent lights shining down on her blood-stained clothes. I know she’s been in a car accident, but I have no idea of the extent of the damage yet. I step closer to the table and g... |
| 07.09.2017 | Macomb Innovation Fund announces $75,000 in awards to two Detroit-area technology startups | Chickpea pasta producer Banza becomes Macomb Innovation Fund’s first awardee to contribute to fund replenishment
Two early-stage companies, one from Detroit and the second from Macomb County, will receive $75,000 in funding from the Innovat... |
| 31.07.2017 | These new devices promise to fight pain without opioids | Terri Bryant was working at a cheese factory in 2000 when she injured the delicate, rubbery discs between her spinal bones. That was the start of her chronic pain. Two years later, she had back surgery and started regularly taking fentanyl,... |
| 30.07.2017 | Micro Fantasy is eager to take next step | Joel Crites only has about $2,500 in revenue to show for Micro Fantasy, his predictive-gaming startup of two years.
But the North Canton Hoover High School graduate continues to swing for the fences, and he's drawing a crowd of people who b... |
| 13.07.2017 | Akron's Segmint partners with IBM | The Akron-based data-mining and management firm Segmint has announced it has a new partner: none other than IBM.
Segmint said on Tuesday, July 11, that it has entered a strategic partnership with IBM to market each other's products to finan... |
| 12.07.2017 | Top 3 Reasons Startups Don’t Receive Funding | Last month Innovation Fund Northeast Ohio introduced the latest group of companies to win funding awards. This money is usually the first market validation that a new business idea has the potential for success. But there are a number of re... |
| 10.07.2017 | Micro Fantasy featured on NPR's How I Built This | In the July 10, 2017 issue of How I Built This, host Guy Raz talks with Joel Crites, founder of Mirco Fantasy about how he built his prediction contest app that transforms any smart phone from a distraction to an attraction while following ... |
| 30.06.2017 | 2 tech startups win $125,000 from Macomb Innovation Fund | Two technology startups in Oakland Country are receiving a $125,000 boost from the Macomb Innovation Fund. Funded by Macomb Community College's Strategic Fund and part of J.P. Morgan Chase's $150 million commitment to Detroit's economic rec... |
| 27.06.2017 | O2 RegenTech awarded $100,000 from Innovation Fund Northeast Ohio | O2 RegenTech, a medical device startup out of the University of Akron, has received a boost with $100,000 in funding from the Innovation Fund Northeast Ohio, according to the university.
Founded in 2013 by Nic Leipzig, an associate professo... |
| 20.06.2017 | Babysitting for free without guilt? Here's a new app to help busy parents | How about free babysitting that's trustworthy and guilt-free? It's not a gimmick, it's a new app that two Akron moms created that works like a babysitting exchange.
It's called Komae, which is Greek for "village." To use the app, ... |
| 20.06.2017 | Akron startup Cannibuster aims to measure marijuana use in drivers | Talking about legalized pot with her kids made Kathy Stitzlein think about the need for a roadside device to measure levels of marijuana intoxication.
As a PhD candidate in biomedical engineering at the University of Akron, Stitzlein invent... |
| 12.06.2017 | Akron-area startups O2 RegenTech, Vlipsy receive Innovation Fund investments | Two Akron-area companies were among six tech startups to receive a share of $225,000 in the round of investments announced by Innovation Fund Northeast Ohio.
The startups will use the money to test technologies and prove business models, ac... |
| 12.06.2017 | Six Tech Startups Receive $225,000 from Innovation Fund Northeast Ohio | Innovation Fund Northeast Ohio, the area’s most active pre-seed fund for technology-based startups, has awarded a combined $225,000 to six companies. The startups will use the money to complete projects that will test technologies and prove... |
| 12.06.2017 | Virtual reality technology arrives at GW Hospital for neurosurgery | Virtual reality technology is now in use at GW Hospital, allowing neurosurgeons to digitally map out operations in advance of the procedure.
Precision Virtual Reality technology, created by the company Surgical Theater, arrived at GW Hospit... |
| 11.06.2017 | Medical scheduling company aspiring for Hyr level | Going to a Hyr level. Local serial entrepreneur Manoj Jhaveri is at it again. Recently, Jhaveri, and his merry band of cohorts, launched Hyr Medical in Highland Heights. The company seeks to solve the locum tenans inefficiencies in medical ... |
| 06.06.2017 | Is The Timing Right For VR In Healthcare? | I wrote recently about the importance of timing for any new innovation, with many new technologies requiring the right environment to thrive. Nowhere is this more evident than with the current burst of innovation in AI, which has depended h... |
| 28.05.2017 | Revenue Conduit, Blu-Board are seeking startup spotlight: Tech Czar Talk | There are two new Cleveland startups that are changing the entrepreneurial landscape in Northeast Ohio.
Cleveland-based Revenue Conduit and Blu-Board are crafting new platforms that are disrupting markets globally.
And for those companies s... |
| 18.05.2017 | Cleveland on the verge of virtual reality boom | Cleveland is known for its food and beer scene, sports and culture, but it’s also becoming a budding hub for virtual and augmented reality. People in this field say virtual and augmented reality will change our daily lives similar to when t... |
| 15.05.2017 | SPR Therapeutics awarded $6 million U.S. Department of Defense grant | SPR Therapeutics has secured a $6 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense for its non-opioid pain management therapy.
The four-year contract will help to advance SPR's SPRINT Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (PNS) System for non-op... |
| 12.05.2017 | Massillon company makes metal coating that’s stronger than diamonds | Tesla NanoCoatings set up shop in Massillon with confidence in its products and big dreams for success.
It hasn’t taken long for that to happen.
Tesla, which produces a corrosion-resistant coating for steel and other metals, has only been i... |
| 21.04.2017 | Sixth-graders get a lesson in brain surgery using virtual reality headsets | For the sixth-grade class at Davis Magnet School in Costa Mesa, the science lesson for the day means keeping textbooks and notebooks on the shelves while the students pull out virtual reality viewers by Google Cardboard and their smartphone... |
| 07.04.2017 | Fitness app, nutrition supplement win top GreenLight pitch competition prizes | A fitness app for swimmers and a wastewater treatment solution were among the winners of a total of $100,000 awarded at The Greenlight Business Model Competition on Wednesday.
This year 22 young companies with big ideas competed at Michigan... |
| 17.03.2017 | Akron area marijuana-detection device venture and baby-sitting app attract money from fund promoting innovation | Two very different Akron area innovations — a portable marijuana-detection device and an app that allows users to exchange free baby-sitting services — have each won $25,000 from the region’s nonprofit Innovation Fund.
The ventures — the Ko... |
| 15.03.2017 | Innovation Fund awards $175,000 to 4 Northeast Ohio tech startups | Aatru Medical Corp. claimed the top prize of $100,000 from the Innovation Fund. It was one of four Northeast Ohio startups that got funding to help take their products to the next level.
Aatru is developing a wound dressing product that lev... |
| 14.03.2017 | Innovation Fund Awards $175,000 to Four Northeast Ohio Tech Startups | Region’s most active pre-seed fund has helped startups create nearly 1,000 jobs since 2007
Four local startups will receive a combined $175,000 from Innovation Fund Northeast Ohio, the region’s most active pre-seed fund for technology start... |
| 02.03.2017 | Local company leading the way in cell research | Cleveland 19 News Cleveland, OH
The simplest explanation of the research being done at Cleveland based Trailhead Biosystems is that they are working to find a way to control the cells in our bodies to see if they can find a way to cure dise... |
| 14.02.2017 | New Feature Makes Re-Applying Easier | A new feature is making it easier for entrepreneurs to re-apply to the Innovation Fund. Now you can copy an old application into the current funding cycle, giving you a head start completing the form.
We added this feature because we know t... |
| 08.02.2017 | GLIDE at LCCC helps entrepreneurs start businesses | Dr. Simon Melikian invented a way for robots to see and learn. Basically taking the biology of the human eye and turning it into technology.
"I knew I had something really, really good to sell," he said.
But he had no idea how to ... |
| 22.01.2017 | Segmint's use of big data adds up to large growth | Big data is turning into a big business in downtown Akron, where the data-mining firm Segmint just moved into new offices in the city-owned Hamlin Building.
The 9-year-old company, which moved Jan. 20-21 from One Cascade Plaza, provides dat... |
| 19.01.2017 | Macomb Innovation Fund awards $225,000 to five Detroit-area technology startups | Since 2015, 24 companies awarded total of $1.4 million; Nearly 340 students benefit from unique learning experiences
Five early-stage companies from Macomb, Washtenaw and Wayne counties will receive $225,000 in funding from the Innovation F... |
| 18.01.2017 | Cleveland Whiskey founder raises a glass to the crowdfunding process | Tom Lix, the founder and chairman of Cleveland Whiskey LLC, is part of a Forbes roundtable that looks at how the introduction of so-called "equity crowdfunding" has worked for small businesses.
For Cleveland Whiskey, it seems, the... |
| 29.12.2016 | Toledo firm eyeing entry into 3-D printing market | A local company that specializes in developing moldable polymers derived from wood is working toward the launch of a product designed specifically for 3-D printers that could, in part, replace the two most common printing filaments on the m... |
| 29.12.2016 | Hedgehogs Hold the Secret to Preventing Concussions | If you ever find yourself watching hedgehog go about its day, you’ll notice that they tend to fall out of trees — a lot. Wild hedgehogs climb trees as high as 30 feet, looking for insects and food to eat. Sometimes they fall by accident, ot... |
| 20.12.2016 | What would nature do? Emerging field inspires local students | What would nature do? Answering that question is leading to major developments in technology, household products and even in things that help keep our kids safe.
Like the padding of a football helmet, for example. Researchers think mimickin... |
| 20.12.2016 | Innovation Fund Commits $200,000 to Local Tech Startups | Four technology startups are using a combined $200,000 to get innovative new products closer to commercialization. The companies won between $25,000 and $100,000 from the Northeast Ohio pre-seed fund and will use the money to make prototype... |
| 09.12.2016 | Look inside my brain | Faced with a very dire health issue, Lucas Deines found himself on the edge of the medical technology frontier. In his emotional and poignant talk, Lucas shares how Virtual Reality, viewed by many as a source of entertainment, saved his li... |
| 28.11.2016 | How a Favor Helped Launch this Fast Growing Business | It all began at a funeral home on Cleveland’s west side. The funeral director wanted to help families with the grieving process when not all members could travel to attend the service. He asked his tech-savvy friend Gordon Daily to help.
Go... |
| 22.11.2016 | Pitching your startup to investors? Be ready to answer 3 questions | Entrepreneurs: when pitching to investors, you need to stay focused on only a few key items. While most likely you will be asked about many different aspects of your business, there are three elements you need to understand and be able to d... |
| 17.11.2016 | Akron area entrepreneurs invited to event today to learn about applying for Innovation Fund money | The Innovation Fund, a Northeast Ohio fund for early-stage technology startups, is hoting a free informational session from 1 to 3 p.m. today at the Akron Global Business Accelerator in downtown Akron.
The session is designed as a forum for... |
| 14.11.2016 | Northeast Ohio’s Most Active Seed Fund Seeks Akron Entrepreneurs | Innovation Fund Northeast Ohio will host a free event at the Akron Global Business Accelerator to encourage area startups to apply
The Innovation Fund Northeast Ohio, the region’s most active pre-seed fund for technology startups, is headin... |
| 04.11.2016 | SPLT takes $500,000 top prize at Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition - Mobility company aims to provide transportation for those in underserved neighborhoods | ~~The judges for the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition deliberated for more than an hour and a half late Thursday night at Cobo Center in Detroit before naming mobility company SPLT the $500,000 winner.
"The candidates were so... |
| 27.10.2016 | Virtual reality? TEDxManhattanBeach speaker gets a life-saving dose | Virtual reality isn't just for catching Pokémon; it can save your life.
In December 2014, Lucas Deines’ life changed dramatically: He learned he had a brain tumor and sought the best medical advice. But, he didn't realize, his doctors would... |
| 06.10.2016 | 5 Mistakes Startups Make when Negotiating License Agreements | Negotiating a license agreement is hard, especially when you’re the small, young company in the deal. Here are the top five mistakes startups make when negotiating.
Skipping legal guidance. In almost every case the licensor will have a team... |
| 22.09.2016 | 5 Tech Startups Plan for Growth with Innovation Fund Northeast Ohio Money | Five technology startups in Northeast Ohio will keep growing thanks in part to the Innovation Fund. The companies won between $25,000 and $50,000 from the region’s pre-seed fund and their founders will use the money to test technologies, im... |
