Chicago Business Journal: P&G Alum Named CEO of Chicago Tech Firm April 8, 2021 - A former senior executive at Procter & Gamble, whose most recent work placed him at search engine giant Google, has been named the new CEO of a Chicago-based tech firm.… Read More
Chicago Business Journal: Tock, the Chicago-Based Restaurant Reservation App, Has Been Sold April 7, 2021 - Tock, a Chicago reservation startup from Alinea co-founder Nick Kokonas, has been acquired by Squarespace for $400 million. View full article in Chicago Business Journal. Read More
Chicago Inno: Cameo Now Valued at More Than $1B After Raising New Funding April 6, 2021 - Chicago's buzziest startup is officially a unicorn. Celebrity shoutout app Cameo announced Tuesday that it has raised $100 million in new funding at a valuation of more than $1 billion.… Read More
Chicago Inno: After Covid Brought Its Business to a Halt, Snapsheet Prepares for Growth Again with $30M Raise April 1, 2021 - Snapsheet, one of Chicago's growing insuretech startups, has raised a new round of funding for its cloud-native insurance claims platform. The company announced Thursday that it raised $30 million in Series… Read More
Chicago Business Journal: Why Sprout Social’s Co-Founder and CTO Has Been Quietly Angel Investing in Chicago March 31, 2021 - If you were tuned in to Chicago tech Clubhouse chatter in early February, you’ll remember a room titled “Is Chicago Tech too risk averse?” The chat on Clubhouse, a popular… Read More
Chicago Inno: FourKites Raises $100M for Its Logistics Software that Tracks 1M Shipments a Day March 30, 2021 - Chicago logistics startup FourKites just hauled in $100 million in new funding. FourKites, a maker of real-time supply chain software, announced Wednesday it raised $100 million in Series D funding, bringing its total amount of… Read More
Chicago Business Journal: Investments in Telehealth Solutions in Illinois Address the Need for Members to Continue Essential Care March 26, 2021 - The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the health care landscape, including how people access care. While telehealth services had been gaining ground in the years before the pandemic, particularly in rural… Read More
Chicago Inno: Siri Founder Dag Kittlaus’ New Startup Uses an iPhone to Take Your Blood Pressure March 25, 2021 - Dag Kittlaus, a Chicago-based entrepreneur and the creator of Siri, has a new startup that aims to take your blood pressure with a smart phone. Kittlaus, along with co-founder Tuhin… Read More
Chicago Inno: Meet Spot, an Audio Tool Designed for Walking Meetings—and the Antidote for Zoom Fatigue March 24, 2021 - One year into the Covid-19 pandemic, Zoom fatigue is very much a real thing. Stanford researchers have identified design flaws in Zoom and other video conferencing platforms that are exhausting our… Read More
Chicago Health: App Gives Real-Time Updates from the NICU March 19, 2021 - Long before the Covid-19 pandemic, Craig Garfield, MD, and Young Lee, PhD, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, developed an app to solve a common problem in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU):… Read More
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