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The Story of Midwest House Part 2: Changing Names

The Story of Midwest House Part 1: Ten Years to Community

Homecoming: How a Campus Idea Became a Midwest Playbook

Midwest Startup Fundraising – Q3 2025: Uneven, Outlier-Driven, and Sober.

Illinois Startup Funding: Q3 2025

Illinois key contributor as US Energy storage capacity reaches 5.6 GW in Q2 2025

Lay of the Land #169: Aaron Slodov of Atomic Industries — Techno-Industrial Optimism and Exascaling American Manufacturing

Chicago to host Venture Summit 2025: Future of Food

Perseverance, Potlucks, and Potholes: Surviving Change as a Midwesterner

Fundraising in the Midwest: Longer timelines and a trickle of liquidity

Chicago’s zerohash raises $104 million as Wall Street firms move into crypto infrastructure

The Secret VC: startup red flags investors don’t tell you.

Startups: Here’s How to Work with the Midwest’s Corporate Titans

Madison’s TruStage Ventures targets investments in Veteran-Owned Fintech Startups

Maker, Maker. Doctor… Quantum Physicist? Midwest Fundraising by Industry by State

Midwest standouts on Fast Company’s “Best Workplaces for Innovators”

Chicago-based Kin raises $50 million at $2 billion valuation

Midwest Startup City Rankings 2025: Winners, Gaps, Reality Checks.

Applications for Techstars Spring 2026 now open

Founder Stories: RJ Talyor of Backstroke

How can we bring creativity back to the boardroom?

Illinois Enacts First Midwest Crypto Consumer Protections

Is Deep Tech Quietly Exploding in the Midwest?

Chamber of Commerce: 80% of small businesses using AI hired more staff

Why I Built Free Resources for Chicago Founders

Midwest Firms named in TIME’s annual ‘Top VC’ list

Founder Stories: Beth Hussey from Shifty

Why Chicago is pushing its chips all in on quantum

Chicago's Ocra raises $5m to accelerate AI‑led parking

Michigan Angel Collective: Speed of Entrepreneurship vs. Speed of Risk

Interview: Chris Thomas of Assembly Ventures on Reindustrialize 2.0

NSF awards $15 million to University of Illinois lab

Non-Invasive Cancer Therapy firm HistoSonics acquired for $2.25 Billion

The Summit for VC collaboration in the Great Lakes region

Midwest House Stories - Philippe Vella, Co-Founder of Start Midwest

Future in the Making Ep #2: Why US Manufacturing is coming back

Fundraising Q2, 2025: Illinois

Vote in the 2025 SaaS Benchmarks Survey

Midwest House Stories - Chris Luecke, Manufacturing Happy Hour

University of Chicago and IBM launch first Quantum Startup Accelerator.

An Interview with: Derrick Maultsby, Jr. on Black Tech Week

Future in the Making Ep #1: Detroit is where the future will be built

Lithium metal battery company Pure Lithium to relocate to Chicago.

Illinois commits $7 million to modernize tech incubators and boost innovation

Fusion Energy Takes Center Stage with FusionX: Great Lakes Roadshow

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The StartMidwest “Where Are We?” Survey

The Start Midwest University Rankings: 2025

In The Middle of Everything: "Will it play in Peoria?”

APFusion Raises $6.5M to Digitize Auto Salvage

The Midwest is a fundraising under-performer. What can be done to change that?

Chicago and Indiana startups lead with $25,000 AgriNovus Velocity awards

Does Brand Matter in B2B SaaS? Yes. That means even for YOUR startup.

A Fireside Chat featuring Scott Ryder of Flow at SxSW: Midwest House

If a Midwest startup raised $40m and no one knew, did it make a sound?