Her story is a movie-maker’s dream. Arlan Hamilton built a venture capital fund, Backstage Capital, from the ground up, while homeless.
Her fund seeks to address funding inequalities in tech by investing in "underestimated" high-potential founders who happen to be people of color, women, and/or LGBT.
Danielle Deavens recently celebrated the myriad ways two years of being in business has changed her business. After receiving an Arch Grant in 2020 she relocated her company, Bold Xchange, from Charlotte, North Carolina to St. Louis and the gifting startup has maintained a winning streak. Last year, they went on to win an additional […]
Conflux Co-Learning, a "co-learning space" exclusively serving manufacturers and distributors is launching a career fair. It will be a one-stop opportunity for those interested in pursuing a position in the manufacturing and distribution industry.
UMSL DEI Accelerator cohort company, Hire Henry, seem to have achieved one of their stated goals of the program: to launch a fully functional prototype and conduct beta tests. Co-founder, George Holmes, PhD announced on LinkedIn that their heavy duty robotic lawnmower is going to tested at City of Sugar Lands airport in Texas. “This […]
Alex Miller is a St. Louisan who’s become an expert at creating community for talent to grow and succeed in.
By day, he is one of the top contributors to Clojure an open source programming language that fits between relational and graph-based databases (and driving digital banking systems for innovators like Nubank the largest fintech in Latin America).
In his spare time, Alex launched and runs Strange Loop one of the most successful independent conferences for developers, bringing software talent from around the world together in St. Louis.
In this conversation with Dan Reus, Alex shares about the care and feeding of software developers – and how meaningful problems, meeting people outside your domain, social issues, the City Museum, and helping talent find their voices all matter in inspiring and sustaining that talent.
Last month, Michael Woods, founder of Dream Builders 4 Equity, a mission driven real estate startup in St. Louis that is executing a $5M five-year-plan to community development plan in the Hyde Park neighborhood, recommends that aspiring entrepreneurs just get started and identify their most likely advocates, in this Linkedin Post celebrating Black History.
I think this has been on the wish list for a long time: a way for the NGA to work in the STL community without everyone else needing "security clearance."
2022 has gotten off to a flying start for St. Louis founder, Bash Jones, who joined SeedScout and headed West to meet investors and launch Homeplan, a personal home management platform.
In response to my recent opinion piece, in which I criticized TechSTL for claiming to be St. Louis’s “First Tech Council”, Founding Executive Director of TechSTL, Emily Breedlove, contacted me over the weekend and we arranged to meet in person. I thought it was brave of her to reach out as she could have just ignored […]
If you've been wondering what Invisibly —St. Louis' most stealthy startup— actually does, here's an explanation from the fintech-meets-adtech startup founder, Jim McKelvey.
Former RGA employees and co-founders of tech startup iCover, Nicole Mwesigwa and Hari Srinivasan, aim to cut down the time to buy life insurance from a few weeks to a few minutes. From blood tests to medical exams, circumventing the daunting steps required to purchasing life insurance, iCover utilizes predictive analytics to quote, underwrite and […]
An entrepreneurship program at Saint Louis University and work experience at the SportsTech and e-sport venture capital firm, Stadia Ventures, struck a chord and became the motivation behind founding Mission Control says Byron Abrigg in an interview with VoyageSTL. Founded in 2017, Mission Control is a platform for growing the community using recreational e-sports with video […]
David Karandish is the co-founder and CEO of Capacity, an enterprise artificial intelligence SaaS company focused on helping teams do their best work. To date, the company has raised over $62 million from a Midwest network of private and angel investors. In January 2020, Capacity, announced an additional $27 million in Series C financing, closing […]
The Fellows program was founded in 2006. Since then, nearly 1,000 Fellows have completed the program, with 90% remaining in the metro. Through volunteer and civic activities, Fellows hone their skills, expand their relationships, and deepen their connection with the broader St. Louis community.
Twelve-week program boosts business acumen of diverse entrepreneurs; provides participants with support, connections and $5,000 in non-dilutive capital.
Now in its fourth year, the Diverse Business Accelerator (DBA) has provided 36 portfolio companies 320 hours of programming and a total of $120,000 in funding.
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