All the deals for this week ending July 17, 2025: NxLite raises $16.6M in Detroit and ReElement $25M in Indianapolis, among deals across five states.

Midwest startups raised $1.25B across 114 deals in Q2 2026 — up 14% on Q1, down 66% year over year. A state-by-state look at where the money went.

Voxel51's Brian Moore is building the Databricks of physical AI from Columbus, Ohio. How an open-source project became a $50M-backed infrastructure company.

Electric Outdoors founder Josef Hjelmaker built an off-grid energy startup in Michigan that raised $3M after a 24-year corporate career at Whirlpool and Thor Industries.

TechChicago Week 2026 runs July 20–26. Four Chicago insiders share the events they'd build the week around, who to meet, and what it means for the Midwest.

How Aria Spears of Michigan Founders Fund used open-source data and online communities to connect rural founders and AI builders far away from Detroit and Ann Arbor.

As GM runs 50 'cobots 'at its Detroit EV plant, Chicago's Automate 2026 previews the humanoid robots and AI heading for Midwest factory floors.

From Saline Township's contested Barn campus to tax-credit pauses in Ohio and Illinois, Midwest states are considering data center deals they once chased.

Fred Hoch of TechNexus in Chicago helped define the term SaaS — in his opinion AI is extending software, not killing it.

Cintrifuse Capital’s Ilana Habib on how being acquired didn’t pay her a dollar - and what startup employees should know about equity.