The startup funding process can be a daunting, complex task for entrepreneurs. Every stage of startup funding requires different goals and strategies to ensure successful fundraising. Knowing when it's time to move to the next round of funding, what goals you should set for your business at each point in the process and how to best prepare is key to finding investors who believe in your vision. It can take a startup years to move through the funding stages, so it's wise to use that time to prepare…
When engaging in discussions over any merger or acquisition transaction, the parties will plan out and schedule most of the process around the anticipated timetables for due diligence. All too often, parties are exclusively planning out the due diligence of the target company. Obviously, the target company is the only entity changing hands, so its risk profile is paramount to the transaction. However, in today’s market, sellers have an increased interest in performing their own due diligence on…
David Woodburn, CEO of St. Louis-based agtech startup Edison Agrosciences, vividly remembers the first time he saw a commercial sunflower field. It was years ago, during a road trip through South Dakota, and he recalls being struck by the flowers set against a bright blue sky. Yet despite how memorable the experience was, it would be many years before he’d come to understand the plant’s full power — one that is poised to solve one of the most vexing problems in the U.S. supply chain.
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The county said Thursday it’s purchasing the National Equestrian Center (NEC) at 6880 Lake St. Louis Blvd., a move that was approved unanimously in October by the St. Charles County Council. It is acquiring the 54-acre horse show venue for $5.9 million.
Judge Heather Cunningham of St. Louis County Circuit Court entered the judgment against Shada Seed & Ag Services LLC on Dec. 14. The ruling came nearly three months after Shada Seed -- a retailer of seed, chemical and fertilizer in Pelican Rapids, Minnesota -- did not respond to the lawsuit filed by Bayer.
Business owners, executives, senior-level managers and the general public turn to the Book of Lists again and again as they seek information about the area’s economy and the companies and individuals that help our region prosper.
A St. Louis County-based distributor of self-serve beverage dispensing technology has sued one of its owners, alleging fraud and deceit, including allegations he abruptly shut down the business’ office without prior notice.
The warehouse at the site is 100% leased to three tenants, and the 7-acre site functions as the furniture showroom of one of St. Louis’ largest local office furniture dealers.
The Center for Emerging Technologies (CET), a longstanding innovation center within the Cortex innovation district, has dissolved as its own entity in a move that will cut costs and rebrand CET's programming with the Cortex moniker.
A Missouri-based retailer of beers, wines and spirits is quickly expanding and planning to open its first location in the St. Louis region in fall 2024.
Missouri lawmakers return next week to Jefferson City for their annual session with a new fight brewing between House and Senate Republicans that may have hastened a change in duties for long-time House GOP political strategist Jonathan Ratliff.
Ratliff, who leveraged his success building a legislative supermajority into a political consulting firm with a variety of clients, will be replaced as executive director of the House Republican Campaign Committee. Ratliff will be retained as a “senior…
The Missouri Department of Economic Development touted that its support helped bring nine companies to the state. See which four are expanding in the St. Louis area.
Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS), a nonprofit health system which operates several facilities in Metro East, has named a new chief financial officer.
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