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Congresswoman Robin Kelly Visits with Healthcare Innovators at MATTER

January 22, 2016

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U.S. Representative Robin Kelly (D-IL) today visited healthcare technology incubator MATTER to discuss healthcare innovation with early-stage entrepreneurs and industry leaders.

Launched in February 2015, MATTER is a community of health technology startups and industry leaders from across the ecosystem that are working together to foster innovation in health IT, medical devices, diagnostics…

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tales from the trenches

Tales from the Trenches: Jeff Aronin of Paragon Biosciences

January 17, 2016

Jeff Aronin, CEO of Paragon Biosciences, was a featured guest in MATTER’sTales from the Trenchesseries. Paragon focuses on identifying unmet medical needs, novel science, and then builds companies with world-class talent to bring medications to market. He and ContextMedia CEO Rishi Shah discussed how he got into healthcare; his work, management, and investment style; and pharmaceutical industry…

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community

MATTER Welcomes 20 More Healthcare Tech Startups Into The Community

December 9, 2015

MATTER is pleased to recognize 20 healthcare technology companies who have recently joined the community. The new members are:

American BioOptics is developing a method for population-wide colon cancer screening via a minimally invasive test performed during a patient’s annual physical exam. With early detection of colon cancer precursors, the company aims to streamline efficiency of care, red…

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Announcing This Year’s 50 on Fire Winners

December 2, 2015

Tonight, we unveiled the 50 on Fire, a collection of companies, CEOs, startups, and entrepreneurs that are driving the city’s innovation economy forward.

From Avant, one of Chicago’s four Unicorns, to Todd Connor, Executive Director of the The Bunker Labs, and from Catalyze, an incubator for makers, to Curiosity, an app for discovery, these people and businesses are heating up the city across …

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These Are the 15 Fastest-Growing Chicago Startups With Less Than $10M Raised

November 25, 2015

Want to know which Chicago tech companies are ramping up growth, but who’ve also taken in relatively little venture capital? Mattermark just published a report that looks at the fastest growing startups in 8 cities based on companies that have raised less than $10 million.

Mattermark ranked companies by their “Growth Score,” which measures businesses by how quickly they are growing and the tra…

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