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Autumn Riverside Skyline in Cleveland

Ohio Startup Funding Q3 2026: $1.11 billion across 17 deals, with Keyfactor's $1 billion round 90% of the total

October 18, 2026

StartupCincy Week Turned Ten this year

StartupCincy Week Turned 10: Cincinnati Showed Up, and the World Noticed.

October 14, 2026

(Almost) Nobody Is Going to Tell You No: How to Translate a VC Pass

(Almost) Nobody Is Going to Tell You No: How to Translate a VC Pass

September 9, 2026

Derrick Maultsby of FBT Gibbons on stage at Black Tech Week 2026 in Cincinnati.

A road trip to Cincinnati for Black Tech Week 2026.

StartMidwest Cintrifuse Startup Fellows Cohort 2026

Startup Ecosystems Don't Grow by Accident, but by Developing Builders.

StartMidwest Ohio Q2 2026 Startup Funding falls 85 per cent

Ohio's Startup Funding Fell 85% in Q2 2026 while the Country Tripled

Cincinnati, Ohio seen from the river in black and white, for Radley Health's $3M seed round

Cincinnati's Radley Health raises $3M to expand peer-support mental health

StartMidwest State of AI Report OhioX

OhioX releases 2026 State of AI report: talent is new bottleneck

StartMidwest Global Tech Ecosystem Index 2026 Lincoln Nebraska

Where Midwest startup hubs rank in Dealroom's 2026 Global Tech Ecosystem Index

Coworking space at Union Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio

The Operator Gap: What Midwest Startups Are Missing, and What We Can Do About It

StartMidwest - Cincinnati Queen City Angels becomes QCA Ventures

Cincinnati’s Queen City Angels Becomes QCA Ventures

February 12, 2026

The Boomerang VC: Ilana Habib on Midwest Grit, Patient Capital, and Building Bigger in Ohio

January 15, 2026

StartMidwest Ohio Startup News Year in Review 2025

Ohio Startup News 2025: Year In Review

December 29, 2025

Dual HQ, Singular Vision: Inside Kernel’s Plan to Scale a Breakout AI Company

December 10, 2025

StartMidwest Founder Stories: Ryan Rybolt of Payload

Founder Stories: Ryan Rybolt of Payload

November 17, 2025

Growing Founders at Home: Cincinnati Must Invite Students Into Building Startups

November 12, 2025

Ohio’s Experiment: The O.H.I.O. Fund Bets on Itself

October 15, 2025

StartMidwest Funding Q3 2025 Ohio

Ohio Startup Fundraising: Q3 2025

October 6, 2025

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

September 26, 2025

StartMidwest - Cintrifuse innovation - Cincinnati City as a Lab

Cincinnati: City-as-a-Lab

Fundraising Q2, 2025: Ohio

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