| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.06.2024 | Houston-area energy tech startup takes first place in DOE competition | Four startups from across the country won over $160,000 in cash prizes from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions earlier this month, and a Houston-area company claimed the top prize.
Hertha Metals, based in Conro... |
| 29.03.2024 | MHub, Evergreen Climate Innovations earmarked to get $1M-plus in latest federal 'minibus' bill | - |
| 20.03.2024 | GET Cities Doubles Down: Distributes Nearly $2M Over 2 Years to Fuel Tech Equity Working Group Pilots In Chicago | GET Cities reaffirms commitment to partner organizations through a second round of grant distribution to three Tech Equity Working Group (TEWG) pilot spinout CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, UNITED STATES, March 20, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- GET (Gender... |
| 08.05.2023 | mHub opens much bigger facility to kick Chicago startups into high gear | When mHub opened its doors in Chicago seven years ago, the vision was to create a traditional incubator for people making things. It would involve a prototyping lab, offices, shared workspaces, meeting rooms and classrooms. In those seven y... |
| 27.04.2023 | mHUB to Transform Illinois’ Advanced Manufacturing Competitiveness with Expansion into New $50M Innovation and Commercialization Center | Exterior of 240 N. Ashland - future home of the mHUB innovation and commercialization center in Chicago “This historic investment will help drive Illinois and the nation’s global leadership in hardtech, and particularly around the commercia... |
| 12.09.2022 | mHUB Closes $15M Product Impact Fund I | mHUB, a Chicago, IL-based independent hardtech and manufacturing innovation center, closed its $15M mHUB Product Impact Fund I, LP.
The fund was raised across 79 limited partners, mainly individual investors and some institutions.
Led by Ma... |
| 07.09.2022 | mHUB Innovation Center Closes $15M Venture Fund for Early-Stage HardTech and Physical Product Startups | "Through this first fund, we were able to bring together 79 titans of industry to build a hardtech entrepreneurial ecosystem and provide the essential risk capital needed for hardtech startups to scale," said Haven Allen, Co-Found... |
| 21.04.2022 | The Top 40 Investors In Industrial Tech: How Investments In Transformative Solutions Using AI, Cloud, And Edge Act Like Probiotics For Manufacturing | Traditionally, few venture capitalists would touch industrial startup companies. Time cycles were too long and clunky hardware complicated things. However, deep digitalization is taking hold, the expectations are that the industrial sector ... |
| 15.12.2021 | mHUB Hardtech Innovation Center Announces Climate and Energy Tech Accelerator Supported by Initial Industry Partners Invenergy and Nicor Gas | mHUB accelerator program Demo Day for early-stage hardtech startups mHUB’s focus on manufacturing and product development, in addition to providing investment, is what early-stage energy startups need to prototype and scale.
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| 13.12.2021 | mHUB Driven 2025 Clean Tech Economy Coalition Awarded $500k in Phase 1 of EDA Build Back Better Regional Challenge | “Illinois is poised to be the center of clean tech for the Midwest. It is the first major coal-producing state in the nation as well as the first Midwest state to commit to a carbon-free future by 2045,” said Haven Allen, mHUB CEO and co-fo... |
| 11.11.2021 | Hardtech Innovation Center mHUB Announces Portfolio Teams of Premier MedTech Accelerator Cohort | mHUB MedTech accelerator cohort meets in Chicago for 6-month program “As a program mentor, I’m excited to welcome to the city a group of hardtech focused healthcare startups that will help revolutionize how we diagnose and manage patients a... |
| 01.09.2021 | Alma gets $50M to boost therapists’ practices | Finding an in-network therapist has long been a challenge, and with more people experiencing anxiety and depression during the Covid-19 pandemic, it hasn’t gotten any easier. A number of startups are tackling the problem — either by offerin... |
| 01.09.2021 | Big Health tests if insomnia app can help with anxiety, depression | San Francisco-based company Big Health touted the results of a study that found its app for insomnia helped patients with anxiety and depression.
They compared more than 1,000 people in the U.K. who either used the app with therapy, or used... |
| 31.08.2021 | Versanis Bio unveils $70M and a Novartis drug ready for Phase 2 test in obesity | A Novartis drug that fell short as a treatment for a rare muscle disorder now has a second shot as a potential treatment for obesity. Versanis Bio licensed rights to the drug and the startup has raised $70 million for mid-stage clinical tes... |
| 31.08.2021 | Sesame adds online pharmacy to cash-pay marketplace | Two years ago, Sesame launched with the idea of letting doctors set their own cash-pay prices, cutting insurance out of the picture altogether. Since then, the direct-to-consumer has grown quickly, adding a breadth of telehealth visits, ima... |
| 31.08.2021 | The distraction of real-time insight | When I lived in Los Angeles, neither I, nor anyone I knew, watched the weather. I often wondered how the local meteorologist stayed engaged delivering either “it is going to be hot and sunny today” or “it is going to be kind of hot and sunn... |
| 30.08.2021 | Pfizer eczema contender beats Dupixent in study, but JAK drug class is still in limbo | A Pfizer drug currently under regulatory review for treating atopic dermatitis now has early data showing that it beat Regeneron Pharmaceutical’s blockbuster seller Dupixent in a head-to-head study. But the fate of Pfizer’s abrocitinib rema... |
| 30.08.2021 | With $60M in new funding, Genome Medical buys genetic counseling company | While patients have a growing number of options for genetic testing, they can still be difficult to navigate. Most consumer-facing tests are limited in the amount of health information they can provide, and results can sometimes be challeng... |
| 30.08.2021 | Hackensack Meridian Health, Englewood Health appeal court decision to block merger | Hackensack Meridian Health and Englewood Health are appealing the delay of their proposed merger, according to court documents filed last week.
The New Jersey-based health systems announced their intention to merge in 2019. Hackensack Merid... |
| 29.08.2021 | Covid news recap: Comirnaty approved, J&J’s booster boast, new BD test & more | The first Covid-19 vaccine to secure FDA emergency use authorization has become the first one to land full regulatory approval. That vaccine has a marketing name, “Comirnaty,” but everyone still calls it “the Pfizer vaccine” despite that va... |
| 29.08.2021 | Healthcare automation company Olive launches venture studio | After raising more than $800 million to date, Olive is looking to help launch other startups. The company recently created an in-house venture studio, where it is already incubating two startups.
The idea came from seeing “far too many grea... |
| 27.08.2021 | Debunking 4 myths about cancer clinical trials: The unsung hero of breast cancer research | Clinical trials are the most effective tool to finding groundbreaking medical treatments. The first large-scale breast cancer prevention study in 1998, NCABP’s P-1 trial, showed that healthy women who were at an increased risk for breast ca... |
| 27.08.2021 | Antidote Health nabs $12M in seed round to grow AI-driven virtual HMO | Antidote Health, a telehealth provider, has raised $12 million in seed funding.
The financing round was led by angel investors, including iAngels, Well-Tech Ventures and Flint Capital.
Launched in January, the company offers a model of care... |
| 26.08.2021 | Foundation Medicine, Epic partner to integrate genomic insights into EHR | Foundation Medicine and Epic are partnering to enable clinicians to access genomic profiling and other testing services directly through their EHR system.
Announced Thursday, the partnership aims to improve clinical workflow efficiency and ... |
| 26.08.2021 | A biotech startup’s hunt for elusive disease targets scores $60M for drug R&D | In the search for new drugs, much of the low-hanging fruit has been picked. But there’s still bounty to be found and Atavistik Bio aims to uncover it by looking in uncharted places. Though still in its infancy, the promise of its technology... |
| 25.08.2021 | Mental health unicorns Headspace, Ginger merge into $3B company | As more companies buy up mental health apps, two fast-growing businesses are joining forces.
Digital health unicorns Headspace and Ginger will combine to form a $3 billion entity, they announced on Wednesday.
The deal would combine Headspac... |
| 25.08.2021 | Eli Lilly aims for the next-generation of protein degraders via Lycia R&D alliance | Targeted protein degradation offers the potential to address tough-to-treat diseases, but the first wave of these experimental therapies only addresses disease-causing proteins inside of a cell. Eli Lilly sees the technology of Lycia Therap... |
| 25.08.2021 | Covera raises $25M for software to spot diagnostic errors | After winning over notable clients with its technology to spot diagnostic errors in radiology, Covera Health is raising funds to build out its platform. The New York-based startup recently raised $25 million in a series C funding round led ... |
| 25.08.2021 | Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic to deploy NeuroFlow’s mental health tools across 3 hospitals | Conshohocken, Pennsylvania-based Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic and Independence Blue Cross Foundation are collaborating on a new program with mental health software provider NeuroFlow to tackle healthcare worker burnout.
The program will prov... |
| 25.08.2021 | Scant on details, J&J claims it has data supporting Covid-19 booster shots | Johnson & Johnson is evaluating booster shots in clinical trials that enrolled nearly 2,300 participants, but in announcing data that it said support additional vaccination shot, the company only pointed to a study with results from few... |
| 24.08.2021 | Theravance’s Janssen Biotech-partnered ulcerative colitis drug flops in Phase 2 | A Theravance Biopharma drug at the heart of an intestinal diseases research alliance has failed a Phase 2 dose-finding study in ulcerative colitis, casting doubt on the drug’s prosects in that indication or any others.
In 2018, Johnson &... |
| 24.08.2021 | FDA approves first drug for severe itching in chronic kidney disease patients | Many chronic kidney disease patients who receive hemodialysis experience severe itching afterward. The exact cause of this condition, called pruritus, isn’t known but it can significantly diminish quality of life. Patients now have their fi... |
| 24.08.2021 | UPMC launches cancer drug discovery company | Pittsburgh-based UPMC has launched a drug discovery and development company focused on cancer treatments.
Called Novasenta, the company’s work will concentrate on the tumor microenvironment — that is, the ecosystem inside the body that surr... |
| 24.08.2021 | Are you prepared for a post-pandemic surge of PDPM audits? | More than a year and a half after implementing the Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM), how is your skilled nursing facility doing – operationally and financially?
Chances are, you may still not know. The first significant change to post-ac... |
| 24.08.2021 | Carbon Health buys two urgent care chains | Carbon Health, which set out five years ago to create the “Starbucks of healthcare,” will be in a few more people’s neighborhoods with two recent acquisitions. The company recently bought two urgent care chains, netting it 13 additional cli... |
| 24.08.2021 | AllStripes raises $50 million to support rare disease research | A startup that lets patients share their health records for rare disease research plans to expand its programs with an influx of funding.
San Francisco-based AllStripes recently closed a $50 million series B round, led by Lux Capital. It pl... |
| 23.08.2021 | Pfizer makes big move in blood cancers with $2.3B Trillium acquisition | The entrance to a Pfizer office in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Pfizer has made clear that it’s willing to open its checkbook to support growth opportunities, and on Monday the pharmaceutical giant unveiled its latest such deal: a $2.3 billion ... |
| 05.06.2021 | Chicago innovation hub mHub to launch six-month incubator project for Medtech startups | Baxter and Edward-Elmhurst Health’s venture-capital arm have teamed up to work with Chicago-based mHub incubators to help medical device companies get off the ground. |
| 06.05.2021 | mHUB Selects Nine Startups from Around the World to Participate in Inaugural Cohort of Accelerator for Smart Manufacturing Hardtech Innovation | Nine Startups Selected for the mHUB Industrial IoT Accelerator We created the mHUB accelerator to expedite the path to commercialization for high potential hardtech startups and provide them with early seed capital that’s so scarce for hard... |
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| 12.11.2020 | Industry 4.0 Will Help Fuel Economy Post Election | The Midwest will be a leader in the Fourth Industrial revolution.getty |
| 27.03.2020 | Chicago Companies Are Stepping Up To Take Down Covid Chaos | Liz Lawrence |
| 23.10.2019 | Accenture expands Chicago hub, adds Industry X.0 studio | https://d1rytvr7gmk1sx.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180312_Rori_Teena.mp4
Accenture has expanded its mHub-located Chicago Innovation Hub, and added a new Industry X.0 studio (also called a “Forge”), which the company said, in... |
| 24.07.2019 | mHUB Is Raising a $15M Fund to Back Hardware Startups | mHUB launched two years ago as a massive space for Chicago's hardware entrepreneurs to design and build their products. Now, the manufacturing hub wants to give makers something hardware startups need even more: funding.
mHUB announced on T... |
| 02.10.2018 | Chicago Unites To Showcase The Midwest Venture Ecosystem | U.S. News recently reported on why Chicago has become a top city for startups and entrepreneurs, highlighting the organization that works to promote the city’s technology industry, ChicagoNEXT. On Tuesday, ChicagoNEXT will host its fourth C... |
| 02.03.2018 | Chicago Inno Approved: March's Top Tech and Startup Events | Here are our picks for the best networking events, panels and pitch sessions in Chicago for the month of March. If we missed an important or relevant one, let us know at info@chicagoinno.com.
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| 21.11.2017 | Co-Working in Every Neighborhood: Chicago's 120+ Shared Work Spaces | Picture this: You’re an entrepreneur with a great idea, a few employees and a whole lot of potential. Now you just need an office.
Turns out you’ve hit the the office space jackpot if you’re building a company in Chicago. Over the last few ... |
| 01.11.2017 | Chicago Inno Approved: November’s Top Tech and Startup Events | Here are our picks for the best networking events, panels and pitch sessions in Chicago for the month of November. If you have a submission, email it to info@chicagoinno.com.
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| 31.08.2017 | Chicago Inno Approved: September's Top Tech and Startup Events | Here are our picks for the best networking events, fireside chats and pitch sessions in Chicago for the month of September. If you have a submission, feel free to email info@chicagoinno.com. Week 1: September 5 - September 8
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| 02.08.2017 | Chicago Inno Approved: August's Top Tech and Startup Events | Here are our picks for the best networking events, fireside chats and pitch sessions in Chicago for the month of August. If you have a submission, feel free to email ugandhi@americaninno.com. Week 1: August 1 - August 6
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| 06.09.2016 | A Dorm Room Entrepreneur's Guide to the Chicago Tech Ecosystem | World changing ventures from Facebook to Dropbox, as well as local startups Moneythink to UProspie, were started by university students. And as entrepreneurial energy on campus is only growing, we have to wonder: who will be the next dorm r... |
| - | AppliedVR, Curebase to launch five studies of VR for chronic pain | AppliedVR plans to launch five virtual clinical trials of its VR-based treatment for chronic pain. Photo credit: AppliedVR
Digital health startup AppliedVR plans to launch five virtual trials of its VR-based treatment for chronic pain. The ... |
