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Clever Raises $8 Million Series B

2 years 9 months ago
On the heels of a record year as Clever reached $4 billion in total real estate sold through its platform, pacing to sell over 6,000 homes in 2021. Clever grew annualized revenues 300%, achieving profitability in Q3 despite more than doubling its headcount to 75 since the start of the year.
Jonathan Allen, EQ Staff

TEDxStLouis Rewind: Ness Sandoval on the Power of Maps

2 years 9 months ago
In this 2018 talk from the TEDxStLouis archive Associate director of St. Louis University’s Geospatial Institute, Ness Sandoval, Ph.D. proves that a map is worth a thousand words. He believes in using data, maps and statistics to identify issues such as racial segregation, high poverty neighborhoods.
EQ Community Network

C3 Industries to Open Cannabis Manufacturing Facility on the Hill

2 years 9 months ago

C3 Industries, a Michigan-based cannabis company that operates in multiple states, announced this week the launch of a new 15,000 square foot manufacturing facility in the Hill neighborhood.

According to a press release, the new facility is expected to begin operations this month. Initially, the operation will produce cannabis concentrates and cartridges under the brand name Galactic Meds, which are set to be available to the public in early 2022.…
Daniel Hill

BREAKING: First Case of Omicron Variant Reported in Missouri

2 years 9 months ago
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services announced Friday that the first case of COVID-19 caused by the Omicron Variant has been reported in Missouri. The sample came from a “St. Louis City resident who has recent domestic travel history," the department said in a statement.…
Jaime Lees

St. Louis Real Estate Agent Featured in ‘Call the Closer’ on HGTV

2 years 9 months ago

Lauren Risley, Real Estate Agent of St. Louis, goes the extra mile for her clients to give them the dream homes in “Call the Closer” the hybrid show for HGTV.

Risley, who buys the houses and renovates them to fit the description of a “dream home” once, has been a finance professional.

From buying her first house at the age of 19, Risley now works with a team that could deliver the surprise of the dream homes, and takes pride in showing off St. Louis.

Check out the full story by Daniel Nenan on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A St. Louis 'Money Mule' for Online Fraudsters is Now Helping the FBI

2 years 9 months ago

In a strategy that one prosecutor called "completely unprecedented," Federal law enforcement agencies have collaborated with an elderly Kirkwood woman currently awaiting sentencing in Federal Court to try to prevent others from becoming "money mules" for online scammers.

In a new video produced by the FBI, U.S. Attorney's Office, the Secret Service and Postal Inspection Service, 81-year-old Glenda Seim shares her story of falling victim to an online romance scam.…
Ryan Krull