Meet the Newest Crop of Chicago Start-ups: It’s Demo Day at Chicago-based Excelerate Labs. Here’s a sneak peak at the companies on deck to pitch at the city’s iconic House of Blues. Another incubator, another high-stakes Demo Day. This time…
Graduation day for a tech startup means trading pomp and circumstance for T-shirts and a polished, high-energy slideshow presentation aimed at persuading investors to get out their checkbooks. Wednesday marked such an occasion for 10 startups that have spent the…
Chicago’s Excelerate Labs held its annual demo day on Wednesday, trotting out the 10 fledgling companies that underwent its intensive accelerator program this summer. At the end of that program come $50,000 grants investments from Chicago’s New World Ventures as…
The ten companies participating in Chicago-based tech accelerator Excelerate Labs get to make their formal pitches to investors next Wednesday. That hasn’t stopped one of the participating companies, parking-reservations startup SpotHero, from securing an initial round of funding beforehand from…
Parking startup SpotHero launching new partnership SpotHero, a parking-reservations startup that’s one of the participants in this summer’s Excelerate Labs tech-business incubator, is partnering with another local tech business, Chicago.com, in an effort to attract Internet search traffic. The idea…