Hearing the back-to-back presentations by two local companies, Gridlogix and Waste Remedies LLC, made some Invest Midwest attendees think that perhaps St. Louis has something going in the facilities-management space. Both companies were part of the alternative-energy track at Wednesday’s venture capital…

As the previous post mentions, Mark Heesen of the National Venture Capital Association was the leadoff speaker for today’s Invest Midwest venture capital conference in St. Louis. Though he wasn’t completely bullish on the industry nationwide — both the number…

InvestMidwest, the annual venture capital forum, opened this morning with a sobering statistic: 4,000 companies in VC portfolios that are, so to speak, past their expiration date.

That number came from Mark Heesen, president of the National Venture Capital Association, who…

The organizers of Invest Midwest have chosen 11 St. Louis companies to make their pitches for money at the annual venture capital forum on Wednesday. They’ll be among 42 presenters, the largest number in the event’s nine-year history.

The local companies…

St. Louis has fallen behind  Wisconsin,  Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Detroit  in its reputation as a source for health-care venture capital deals, according to a new survey by BioEnterprise.

The Cleveland-based firm asked 45 venture capitalists about the dealmaking climate in various…

Scott Schnuck, the chairman of this year’s RCGA Leadership Trip to Minneapolis-St. Paul, must have been anticipating the reaction of some of my cynical colleagues. When I returned to the office, they asked how I had enjoyed the “junket” and…

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Venture-capital events like Invest Midwest  generally are billed as places for startup companies to raise money. And while the 30 companies featured here include some raw startups, they also include some companies that have been around for a…

One of the more intriguing companies seeking money at today’s Invest Midwest venture capital forum is based in Omaha, Neb., which most folks wouldn’t think of as a technology hotbed. But a collaboration between mechanical engineering folks and medical-school folks at…

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Before talking about the company presentations at Invest Midwest, I should give you an idea of the scale. About 300 people attended the venture capital forum on the Sprint corporate campus, including about 60 who identified those as…

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I’ve just spent the day at Invest Midwest, a venture capital forum at which 30 promising entrepreneurs made 10-minute pitches to folks with money to invest.  There’s a lot to be hopeful  about, with some very interesting…