Indiana raised $35.65M across 13 deals in Q2 2026, the smallest Midwest total. Deal flow held year over year; average check size fell to a region-low $2.74M.

Minnesota startups raised $90M across 18 deals in Q2 2026 — more deals than any quarter last year, but smaller checks and a 42% drop in value.

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.

Lyceum AI's Glenn Platt on building an AI learning agent from campus to acquisition by Perceptyx in under two years.

Launch Fishers' Raise Right summit put Indianapolis founders and funders in one room, and asked whether the ecosystem actually serves founders.

The Midwest Dairy Accelerator named six food startups for its 2026 cohort, based in Chicago, Saginaw and beyond, competing for a $20,000 prize in Minnesota.

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.