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The Story of Midwest House Part 2: Changing Names

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

Founder Story: Ben Kvalo of Midwest Games

Homecoming: How a Campus Idea Became a Midwest Playbook

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

Top 8 Wisconsin-Made Products Advance in Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin

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

Wisconsin Startup Funding: Q3 2025

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

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

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

Founder Stories: Laura Markewicz of Lotza

From Cincinnati to Appleton: a founder doubles down on the Midwest

10 years of gBETA: Fueling (and finding) Midwest Startup Founders

Wisconsin: Home to the world’s most powerful AI Data Center

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

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”

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?

Is Deep Tech Quietly Exploding in the Midwest?

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

Milwaukee–Waukesha Named Fastest-Growing Metro area

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

Founder Stories: Beth Hussey from Shifty

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

Draft & Develop: Applying baseball thinking to Midwest startups

Interview: Chris Thomas of Assembly Ventures on Reindustrialize 2.0

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

The Summit for VC collaboration in the Great Lakes region

Cutting-edge energy dialogue at 35th Wisconsin Space Conference

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: Wisconsin

Vote in the 2025 SaaS Benchmarks Survey

Midwest House Stories - Chris Luecke, Manufacturing Happy Hour

Mastercraft Ventures raises $6.2m to boost early-stage startups across Wisconsin

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

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

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee opens AI Co-Innovation Lab

Fusion Energy Takes Center Stage with FusionX: Great Lakes Roadshow

The StartMidwest “Where Are We?” Survey

The Start Midwest University Rankings: 2025

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point launches ethical AI degree.

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

Milwaukee drone show replaces July 3 fireworks

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?

Thriving in Spite of Wisconsin: a founder’s view of the Ecosystem