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MATTER, the Merch Mart-based hub for healthcare innovation, announced that it’s collaborating withAbbott, the global drug and research giant, “to accelerate the development of new technologies that improve health and healthcare.” Together, they’ll identify promising, emerging technologies that are potential candidates for commercialization. Abbott will also join MATTER as a mentor to the hub’…
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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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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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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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As entrepreneurs, we all know that Silicon Valley is the promised land of B2C culture-changing innovation.The Valley’s stature draws in the world’s greatest innovators; and as an incubator, this California hot spot fosters growth and nurtures ideas that will one day create life-altering applications. Yet, maybe the next wave of game-changing ideas won’t spring from Silicon Valley’s pattern of…
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