Midwest Moxie

Managing pain: Maria Bennett 30.06.2024 28:30 ↓

SPR Therapeutics provides patients with a non-opioid, non-surgical, minimally-invasive pain treatment option.

Destroying forever chemicals: Michelle Bellanca 18.01.2024 16:44 ↓

How Claros Technologies aims to rid the world of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

Helping customers take control of their health: Alex Skryl 15.01.2024 14:43 ↓

NutriSense was first to provide continuous glucose monitors to consumers.

Assessing plants with AI and other technologies: Mark DeSantis 11.01.2024 16:20 ↓

Bloomfield improves the health and performance of specialty crops around the world advanced technology.

Managing production with cloud-based software: Sunny Han 08.01.2024 16:59 ↓

Connecting manufacturers with live data for faster decision-making and improved processes and products.

Holograms and augmented reality in the surgical suite: Jennifer and Jon Silva 04.01.2024 17:12 ↓

The Silvas developed headsets to allow doctors to see the heart they’re working on floating in front of them.

Making diesel engines run cleaner: BJ Johnson 01.01.2024 15:30 ↓

How a company's work is transforming diesel to use clean-burning, renewable, alternative fuels.

Making image-based AI better, faster, cheaper: Corey Jaskolski 25.12.2023 28:30 ↓

After exploring all seven continents and dozens of countries, Corey Jaskolski started Synthetaic to create the ChatGPT of image data in Wisconsin.

Translating data science into startups: Arnab Nandi 21.12.2023 13:20 ↓

Arnab Nandi’s research into spatiotemporal data spawned Mobikit.

Helping companies keep track of software subscriptions: Eric Christopher 18.12.2023 15:09 ↓

Eric Christopher founded Zylo and, in the process, invented the category of software subscription management.

Breakthrough science driving a cleaner tomorrow: Jian-Ping Wang 14.12.2023 13:53 ↓

Jian-Ping Wang’s years of research paid off when the world's first ever earth-free magnet was developed.

Wirelessly powering phones, headsets and other devices: Jacob Babcock 11.12.2023 17:29 ↓

Jacob Babcock and his team are helping to free us from cords and make wireless charging more prevalent.

Providing virtual, pediatric mental health services: Monika Roots 07.12.2023 14:55 ↓

Monika Roots is a child psychiatrist who has co-founded two telehealth startups.

Mapping neighborhoods across the country: Cory Scott 04.12.2023 13:18 ↓

Cory Scott stumbled into a pitch contest and emerged with first place, a pre-paying customer and the beginnings of LiveBy.

Forecasting weather better with technology and radars: Chris Goode 30.11.2023 15:45 ↓

Chris Goode leaned on 30 years of work experience in weather to start his company, Climavision, which raised $100 million out of the gate to improve weather forecast speed and accuracy.

Listening in at scale to health care providers’ customer conversations: Amy Brown 27.11.2023 15:50 ↓

Amy Brown quit her high-level executive job to start her own venture that helps companies to improve customer relationships and profitability.

Overcoming nerdy preoccupations to steer startup sales: Ben Schmidt 23.11.2023 14:50 ↓

After focusing on scalability and profitability Ben Schmidt's Pittsburg-based Roadbotics, which provides image analysis of road infrastructure, was acquired by Michelin in 2022.

Paying forward 20 years of founding, funding and running startups: Jen Baird 20.11.2023 14:45 ↓

After founding four companies, including Ann Arbor-based Accuri Cytometers, which was acquired in 2010 for $205 million, Jen Baird is now she's helping other young startups grow.

Helping workplace resources find their next use: Garry Cooper 13.11.2023 28:30 ↓

Dr. Garry Cooper started with research lab materials but has grown Chicago-based Rheaply's digital resource exchange platform to find next uses for industrial and IT equipment, building materials, furniture and more.

Curious robots and inventory management: Sankalp Arora 23.04.2023 28:30 ↓

Sankalp Arora figured out while in graduate school at Carnegie Mellon how to make robots curious.

Autonomous drones and video interviewing: Danny Ellis and Kurt Heikkinen 16.04.2023 28:30 ↓

Danny Ellis and Kurt Heikkinen know first-hand how difficult, and ultimately rewarding, a startup can be.

Pea protein and novel battery materials: Nicole Atchison and Francis Wang 09.04.2023 28:30 ↓

Nicole Atchison and Francis Wang are both building a more sustainable future.

Protecting the wellbeing of youth athletes: Tyrre Burks 02.04.2023 28:30 ↓

Tyrre Burks' desire to create the safest environment possible for a young athlete to play the sport they love resulted in forming an insurance company.

Computer engineering and biological products: Nancy Benovich Gilby and Katie Thompson 26.03.2023 28:30 ↓

Nancy Benovich Gilby and Katie Thompson have both figured out how to bring unique products to market in business.

Nuclear fusion and the era of abundant energy: Greg Piefer 19.03.2023 28:30 ↓

Greg Piefer's company, Shine Technologies, has about 400 employees and $700 million of funding directed at harnessing the reaction that powers the sun.