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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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Hal Barron of Calico’s Keynote at MATTER

November 22, 2015

Hal Barron of Calico at MATTER

Hal Barron, president of research and development for Calico, began his presentation Monday with a discussion of Calico’s lofty mission: to “increase understanding of the biology that controls lifespan.” While this goal seems grandiose, Barron takes a reasoned approach, encouraging analysis on a long timeline, rather than looking for quick-hitting, short-term w…

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Chicago Innovation Mentors to Become Part of MATTER

November 12, 2015

iBIO Institute’s PROPEL and MATTER to also increase collaboration to accelerate healthcare innovation

Health technology incubator MATTER, Chicago Innovation Mentors (CIM) and the PROPEL Center of the iBIO Institute announced today that CIM will become a part of MATTER, bringing the 5-year-old mentoring program under the umbrella of MATTER, which opened in February to help accelerate entreprene…

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American Medical Association and MATTER Extend Partnership

November 4, 2015

AMA Interaction Studio at MATTER opens to enhance collaboration, expand connections with entrepreneurs and physicians nationwide

The American Medical Association (AMA) partnership with MATTER reached a new phase today to enhance support for startup companies seeking to have a transformational impact on health and medicine. This milestone was marked as the newly installed AMA Interaction Studio…

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