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Matter, a healthtech-focused startup incubator set to open early next year in Chicago’s Merchandise Mart, announced Wednesday $4.4 million in private funding.
Twenty-two local companies, most in the tech and health-care sectors, are putting up the money to get the latest addition to the city’s startup scene up and running. The funding complements $4 million in state grants and loans.
“The pre…
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For the first time in Chicago, a healthcare robotics company, a pharmaceutical focused on rare, life-threatening diseases, a platform for connecting patients, healthcare givers and doctors and a company working on hearing therapies will all be housed together. These are just a few of the 10 innovative companies changing the healthcare landscape in Chicago. They’re all also part of the inaugural…
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Announced in February and set to open in early 2015, MATTER is a revolutionary startup center for next-generation healthcare technology companies. Backed by a $4 million state investment, the organization was commissioned to advance entrepreneurship in the rapidly evolving medical and biotech industries.
Today, MATTER has unveiled its first 10 members that will be tasked with disrupting the he…
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The first 10 startup companies at Matter, a health-tech incubator set to open in the Merchandise Mart early next year, include a specialty pharmaceutical company, a creator of a blood-sampling system and a company that integrates robotics with heart procedures.
CEO Steve Collens said the incubator chose potentially successful companies, announced Tuesday, that together establish a broad repres…
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Matter, the new health care-tech incubator being planned for the Merchandise Mart, has selected its first 10 companies.
All of them are from the Chicago area. Matter, which began construction last week, won’t open until early next year. The facility expects to be able to accommodate 150 to 200 people when it’s complete, with most companies expected to have one to 10 employees. It began taking …
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