Mott Corporation announced today that it has acquired Digested Organics, a Michigan-based engineering company that manufactures advanced filtration solutions to help customers reduce wastewater disposal costs, reclaim clean water for reuse, and produce valuable co-products. Digested Organics specializes in water reclamation solutions for waste streams…
Yield Lab Institute Releases New Research Report
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched an initiative to assess the existing impediments for scaling innovation and technology in food and agriculture (AgTech) and to identify options to improve the enabling environment for AgTech-focused businesses. The initiative offers a tool for decision makers to promote the uptake of AgTech, investment and entrepreneurship in Africa, ultimately to advance agricultural productivity and food security. The first cohort evaluates the AgTech ecosystems in three East African countries: Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda…
Trusty.care Helps People Navigate the Confusion of Health Insurance Enrollment
Serial entrepreneur Joseph Schneier, CEO & Founder of Trusty.care, is transforming the health insurance experience with an end-to-end technology solution. No senior should go bankrupt because of out-of-pocket healthcare costs, and Trusty.care – the second company Schneier has brought into the StartUp Health portfolio – believes the millions of professionals that work with older adults are the key to achieving that dream…
Stifel Hires SVB Executives
Cliff Holekamp, co-founder and managing director of St. Louis venture capital firm Cultivation Capital, said Stifel made a savvy move in hiring the three former Silicon Valley Bank senior managers. “Stifel already had a well-respected and growing venture practice. Bringing in this kind of talent will elevate the high-quality business they already have…
Cognitive Space Onboards Satellite
Cognitive Space and Terran Orbital today announced a world-first in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven automated mission management, with the onboarding of the Terran Orbital-built GeoStare SV2 spacecraft onto Cognitive Space’s CNTIENT® software platform…
Cloudbeds CEO Analyzes Capital Markets for Travel Tech
As a founder who has led a travel tech company through several rounds of funding and raised more than a quarter billion dollars in capital, we’ve seen a lot of funding environments. We’ve had hundreds (if not thousands) of conversations with investors, founders, brokers, dealers and business agents of every kind…
Capacity CEO Discusses the Acquisition of Textel with TechSTL
Local tech giant Capacity recently acquired another St. Louis based startup, Textel, and we interviewed CEO David Karandish to learn more about the expansion. Plus, David shared his BIG vision for advancing innovation in St. Louis…
Startup Community Reflects on SVB Failure
Following the Silicon Valley Bank failure, Holekamp, of Cultivation Capital, said he suspects businesses will become more discriminating bank customers, more ready to evaluate the financial stability of the institutions…
Yield Lab Featured in Pooptech Article
“We see animal agriculture as underfunded and underinvested from a venture capital perspective. I think it’s an enormous opportunity” said Brandon Day, chief operating officer of The Yield Lab Institute, an organization tied to agtech investor The Yield Lab that focuses on agriculture innovation…
Cultivation Leads $4.6M Seed Round in Monitaur
Monitaur, a Boston, MA-based AI governance software company, secured $4.6m in funding. The round was led by Cultivation Capital with participation from Rockmont Partners, Presidio Ventures, Plug and Play, and Studio VC. Led by CEO Anthony Habayeb, Monitaur provides a machine learning assurance platform that allows enterprises and their partners to build and deploy responsible AI and machine learning models for business leaders, regulators and consumers…