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The games are back: Nominations for St. Louis' Inno Madness bracket challenge are open

2 years 2 months ago
Inno Madness, St. Louis Inno’s annual contest designed to showcase the region’s innovation economy, is back for another year. We are currently accepting nominations for our 2023 Inno Madness bracket challenge, which will launch in the coming weeks. Inno Madness is designed to generate awareness and excitement for the city’s startup ecosystem, and those that are driving it forward. How does it work? Nominate a local startup or your own startup and we will assemble a bracket of private, fast-growing,…
Nathan Rubbelke

39 North: Growing innovation

2 years 2 months ago
39 North is a vibrant innovation district in St. Louis County, Missouri, that creates the conditions where agri-food tech innovation can thrive. By enabling and encouraging collision and collaboration, scientists, startups, students, innovators, investors and companies can convene to make the global agri-food tech industry more secure, agile and sustainable from farm to fork. 39 North is a critical asset in an ecosystem that recognizes that St. Louis has an opportunity to leverage its proximity…
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

Chip Caray the new voice of the St. Louis Cardinals, report says

2 years 2 months ago
The St. Louis Cardinals have reportedly found their new play-by-play announcer for the upcoming season. As first reported late Monday by Davis O'Brien with The Athletic, citing multiple industry sources, Chip Caray will join the St. Louis Cardinals as their new play-by-play announcer. Caray will leave his post with Bally Sports South to join the Bally Sports Midwest broadcasting team, according to The Athletic. Neither Bally Sports nor the Cardinals have yet commented on the report. Chip Caray…
Alli Hebel, KSDK

Here are the 3 finalists for St. Louis Public Schools superintendent

2 years 2 months ago
St. Louis Public Schools announced Monday its final three candidates for superintendent. The school district's three finalists are Jermaine Dawson, chief academic and accountability officer at Birmingham City Schools; Keisha Scarlett, chief academic officer and assistant superintendent of academics at Seattle Public Schools; and Nicole Williams, interim superintendent at St. Louis Public Schools. Williams, who currently leads the district, took the place of former superintendent Kelvin Adams when…
Jennifer Somers, KSDK

St. Louis County, city of Manchester officials maneuver for right to tax recreational pot

2 years 2 months ago
With the start of legal recreational marijuana sales fast approaching, local government officials are jockeying for the position to reap sales tax revenues. When Missouri voters approved changes to the state constitution last fall, they created an option for local governments to assess a 3% sales tax on cannabis. The constitutional amendment only allowed one level of local government to collect the tax, leaving officials in St. Louis County and Manchester to squabble over which municipality would…
Mark Maxwell, KSDK

4 red flags startups might encounter during investor due diligence that could sink a partnership

2 years 2 months ago
As a startup, finding and procuring funding for your business is a vital step to enable growth. Impressing potential investors is only the first step in securing funding. Passing the due diligence process is just as important as putting together a stunning pitch deck. To ensure this all-important discovery phase goes well, avoid the red flags that may cause venture capital and angel investors to back out of a potential partnership. Eventually, startups will require more funding than friends and…
Kyle Krahl, MBA, ASA