press release
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 …
Read more
press release
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…
Read more
press release
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…
Read more
press release
Editor’s note: In 2018, we welcomed Glen back to the MATTER stage to share his thoughts on “the new health consumer”. Read insights from that interview here.
On Monday, September 28, serial entrepreneur and former Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman joined MATTER at the third installment of our Tales from the Trenches series to share more about his personal drive, current ventures and business insight…
Read more
press release
Dutch Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport Edith Schippers toured Chicago’s new healthcare technology incubator MATTER on Wednesday as part of the Chicago Healthy Ageing Seminar.
Hosted by MATTER, the seminar showcased promising new American and Dutch technologies and concepts. Discussions during the seminar focused on sharing best-practices and lessons learned in translational research and p…
Read more