FanzLive Enhances the Sports Fan Experience
If you are a St. Louis sports fan, you know there’s a big soccer match set for Busch Stadium this Thursday (May 23) – it’s the much talked about contest between Manchester City and Chelsea. And the co-founder of a St. Louis innovative startup company – himself a one-time soccer player and longtime sports fan – is looking forward to having two of the biggest European clubs come to St Louis more than most. Tim Murphy’s a founder of FanzLive, a new App that allows users to take photos and video from live sporting events, then share that data with other users in the stadium ,and other fans,...
Read MoreAll the Essentials about St. Louis Food Data Startup Food Essentials
They are the entrepreneurs behind a St. Louis-based startup that turned a negative into a positive, and catapulted it into a business that’s helping make more sense out of what we purchase at the grocery store. The innovators behind FoodEssentials, now based in downtown St. Louis, began their journey about a decade ago, when the father of two of the company’s founders experienced heart health issues. Because of that, brothers Dagan and Anton Xavier needed to help their father find heart-healthy groceries. So, the Xavier brothers, living in Australia at the time, began the painstaking task...
Read MoreDemo Day Dawns for 11 Blossoming St. Louis Startups
Tomorrow, May 8th, is another big day in the growing St. Louis innovation and entrepreneurship movement, as some of St. Louis’ brightest tech startups will gather at The Pageant in St. Louis, to tell their stories, and pitch their startups to potential investors on Capital Innovators Demo Day. Capital Innovators is the technology accelerator fund that’s based downtown in the Railway Exchange Building, or as its commonly referred to these days as the T-Rex Building. Capital Innovators provides tech startups with funding, resources, and connections they need to reach the next level in...
Read MoreMeet Kristin Edmonds, St. Louis Innovator and Creator of Verbal Volley
Kristin Edmonds is a speech pathologist who provides motivational services and products to help her clients improve their language, their voice and their speech. She’s also an innovator and entrepreneur who calls St. Louis her home. Kristin is the founder of Mindfull Games: a company that produces fun vocabulary games that help improve literacy. Kristin’s idea for Mindfull Games began years ago, when she was working at a rehabilitation hospital in Boston. It was there that she discovered that using games to treat speech and language disorders in children was highly effective. Since...
Read MoreJerry Schlichter Details Big Week for Arch Grants Hopefuls
This week — April 25th/26th/27th and 28th – is a big week for a group of budding entrepreneurs whose businesses could become cornerstones of a new St. Louis economy. Individuals representing 40 startup companies – some from St. Louis, others from out of town — will gather downtown. Their companies are the finalists in the 2013 Arch Grants competition. Arch Grants is a program that, this year, will provide 50 thousand dollar grants to each of 20 innovative startup companies that are in St. Louis, or are willing to relocate here. More than 700 budding startups applied for Arch...
Read MoreMeet Talia Goldfarb, St. Louis Innovator and Creator of Myselfbelts
Talia Goldfarb of St. Louis was a social worker who never dreamed her life would change dramatically based on a simple, but necessary invention. In the process of potty training her young son Jake, she noticed the toddler was having a hard time keeping his pants up. She quickly determined one issue was his belt: a traditional belt is impossible to fasten for a toddler. She figured that, surely, there must be a more child-friendly belt – perhaps one that fastens via a Velcro-like substance. When an Internet search turned up nothing, she and her sister went about the business of inventing...
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