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Scopio by Christina Hawatmeh is an image marketplace for over 14,000 artists from 150 countries, serving more than 25,000 businesses.

They intend to create a diverse platform where creators could simply sell their images and build their pages.

Scopio reaches various customers by making an impact on the visual storytelling industry.

Scopio or “Scope it Out” continues to grow with time by changing perceptions.

Check out the full story about at STL Startup on Yahoo! Life.

Health technology company HIPAAtrek aims at being the premiere HIPAA compliance software in the US following the appointment of a new Chief Executive Officer.

Amy Coulter comes with a wealth of industry knowledge and experience, having co-founded a successful health technology company, Ability Network in 2000, which was acquired by Inovalon in 2018 for $1.2 billion.

Check out the full blog post on HIPAAtrek.

Rise Community Development collaborates with the St. Louis Regional Data Alliance at UMSL to build community engagement and develop an equitable neighborhood in St. Louis through making informed decisions by analyzing responsive, community-oriented data.

"This partnership will result in collaborative opportunities between the organizations that will combine Rise’s mission-driven affordable housing technical expertise with RDA’s data management expertise which is strengthened through connections across UMSL — including a partnership with UMSL’s Geospatial Collaborative, which champions research, technological innovation, and community engagement to help local stakeholders make the best policy decisions to improve our neighborhoods."

Check out the blog post on Rise.

Eyeing expansion, Foodshed.io becomes one of the eight companies participating in the Chipotle Luminaries Project - a startup accelerator that provides mentoring and coaching.

Foodshed became a part of St. Louis Yield Lab’s accelerator cohort in 2019, whereas they are currently aiming for national expansion.

A marketing and logistics platform has been developed to assist retailers and institutional buyers in sourcing produce from independent and local growers.

Check out the full story by Nathan Rubbelke on STL Inno.

"Thank you to our investors for recognizing the importance and the unmet need for more precise, noninvasive colorectal cancer (CRC) screening options like ours. This Series B funding enables us to bring our RNA technology to the fight to prevent colorectal cancer," read a post published by Geneoscopy on Linkedin.

"Another big milestone for Geneoscopy in our fight to prevent colorectal cancer! Couldn't be more proud of this team!" said Geneoscopy co-founder, Andrew Barnell, in a post on LinkedIn.

Emerson Electric Co. confirmed plans to merge its industrial software businesses into Aspen Technology in a deal valued at $11 billion.

The Ferguson-based maker of industrial automation technology said it is paying $160 per share, including $6 billion in cash, to AspenTech shareholders in exchange for a 55% stake in the firm.

This will combine Emerson's Geological Simulation Software business and its OSI Inc. unit with Bedford, Massachusetts-based AspenTech.

While Emerson, founded in 1890, has long had an identity as a manufacturing giant, an ambitious acquisition strategy and diversification of its revenue portfolio has transformed the company into a software giant.

Check out the full story by Erik Siemers on the St. Louis Business Journal.

We Stories is making an impact by using children’s books to encourage young families to initiate conversations on racial diversity and equity.

Their Family Learning Program is a 12-week session which connects families, supporting them to navigate these conversations whilst driving empowerment to advocate for racial equity.

Check out the full story by Liz Miller on theSTL.

Together, Lightbeam and CareSignal will deliver, "best-in-class population-level stratification, actionable real-time insight delivery, and clinical outcome improvement," according to a press release shared by CareSignal founder Blake Margraff.

"I am thrilled to share that CareSignal is joining Lightbeam Health Solutions. It is deeply humbling and rewarding to have grown this company with our phenomenal team, client-partners, and investors, and I look forward to serving millions of additional patients and members in the years ahead," he said in a message posted on LinkedIn.

He says newer virtual reality technologies allow an individual to walk around an old warehouse but experience a reality that is completely fabricated.

Storytelling is still a linear narrative as the limitation with VR is that it is a solitary experience. However, Planck is working towards bringing multiple people at the same time as the future of virtual reality.

Check out the full video on TedXStLouis.

Entrepreneur Julian Keaton aims to foster community engagement and move St. Louis forward through a new interactive geolocation mobile game, “Dimensions”.

Inspired by Pokémon Go in 2016 when he moved to St. Louis, Keaton designed this game to introduce college students and transplants to new cities and foster community engagement with longer-term residents.

The mobile game has not been launched yet but interested players can sign up to learn about the public beta launch on the Dimensions website.

Check out the full story by Liz Miller on theSTL.

St. Louis fintech startup Accrue Technologies has been acquired by Nashville-based software development firm Core10.

Founded about a year ago by Pi Pizzeria's founder Chris Sommers, Accure Technologies has developed a lending and banking platform for community banks and credit unions.

The technology aims to curate core banking systems and functions on a single platform.

Check out the full story by Nathan Rubbelke on STL Inno.