Money In Cleveland Tech-Startup Community Begins To Circulate: Tech Czar Talk

Startup money in Cleveland is finally beginning to circulate. A new financial-technology (fintech) startup is about to make a national “splash.” Tech powerhouse Park Place Technologies strengthens its European operations with an acquisition. And JumpStart continues to power the entrepreneurial ecosystem with a new fund. Splash Some Cash. Startups are rarely overnight successes. There are

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Ohio Is Pumping Out Startups As If They Were Growing On Buckeyes

Ohio is a state bursting with startups, so much so that it seems a new accelerator is popping up almost monthly in the Buckeye State. Google “Ohio accelerator” now and you’ll find at least two new accelerators to come out of Ohio in the past two months alone. That’s not even counting some of the more-legacy

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Midtown Neighborhood Drives Cleveland To The Head Of The High-Tech Class

Cleveland is ranked 12th out of the nation’s Top 20 cities when it comes to year over year growth in tech jobs, according to ZipRecruiter.com. One neighborhood in particular is playing a leading role in that growth. Midtown, once full of blight, is coming back to life in a big way. The neighborhood, which sits

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Cleveland Rocks: No ‘Mistake’ About It

Once considered the “mistake by the lake,” Cleveland is getting the last laugh. After a banner year in 2016 — playing host to the Republican National Convention and winning an NBA championship — the city is beaming with pride, and residents are eager to get the word out about everything the “CLE” has to offer.

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Jaguar Land Rover, Lisnr Team Up To Personalize Cars Using Sound

Using sound to transmit data might sound like science fiction, but it could soon come to a Jaguar Land Rover product at a dealership in your area. Jaguar Land Rover’s tech incubator now includes Lisnr, a company devoted to using what it calls Smart Tones to transmit data using sounds that are outside the human

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Software Firm CEO Says Startups Take Time To Make An Impact

It takes just a few years to turn a startup into a firm that can be acquired quickly. But if your goal is to have a large impact on the world, expect it to take at least 10 years. “It took Microsoft nine years to get to $100 million in sales. … Oracle took 10

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Revenue Conduit, Blu-Board Are Seeking Startup Spotlight: Tech Czar Talk

There are two new Cleveland startups that are changing the entrepreneurial landscape in Northeast Ohio. Cleveland-based Revenue Conduit and Blu-Board are crafting new platforms that are disrupting markets globally. CLE Money Maker. Recent news regarding national retailers tends to be bleak. Sears and Kmart are hanging on for dear life. Things are not any better

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Crain’s Cleveland Business Who’s Who In Northeast Ohio

From CEOs and politicians to philanthropists and entrepreneurs, Crain’s Who’s Who list is just a snapshot of those making an impact on Northeast Ohio. There were no specific criteria used, but our editorial team huddled and determined which leaders we thought every person doing business in the region should know. Special consideration was given to

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Speeding Prescription Process Brings Success To CoverMyMeds

After Columbus health-care technology company CoverMyMeds became the first local startup to be bought for $1 billion, one question kept recurring: How did they do it? CEO Matt Scantland said the answer really isn’t all that complex. “We have a simple formula for success,” he said recently at the company’s Miranova offices. “Start with a

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Detroit’s Big Bet On Small Business

In Detroit’s “New Center” area north of Wayne State University, entrepreneur Anthony Hatinger and his business partners are making a bet: that decades from now, crickets and other bugs will have a place in the American palate as consumers become more attentive to the environmental costs and price of meat. But Hatinger and his partners

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