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Cultivation Capital, one of the St. Louis region’s largest venture capital and private equity firms, led a nearly $4.5 million funding round for FinOpsly, an artificial intelligence automation platform. FinOpsly works to connect cloud infrastructure, data platforms and AI pipelines into a unified view (what’s running, what it costs and what needs to happen next)…

During her first year as a student at WashU Medicine, Erica Barnell, MD, PhD, met a patient whose story would change the course of her career. The 52-year-old woman, diagnosed with late-stage colorectal cancer, explained that she’d never been screened — she simply couldn’t take the time off work for a colonoscopy. Barnell recognized a critical gap: colonoscopy, while highly effective, is burdensome, requiring preparation and recovery time that many patients cannot easily manage. Determined to find a better way, she co-founded Geneoscopy in 2015 with her brother, Andrew Barnell…

We’re thrilled to be named to HousingWire’s Tech100 Mortgage list for the ninth year in a row. Recognition like this reflects our longstanding focus on simplifying insurance for mortgage companies and their customers. Over these past nine years, we’ve had the opportunity to work with some great companies — including 100+ lenders, servicers, and banks that collectively process 20% of U.S. home loans…

SweetSpot, located in BioGenerator Labs inside Cortex, is built for endocrinology practices that care for patients using continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) and insulin pumps. These devices generate a constant stream of data, but most clinics do not have the tools or staffing capacity to monitor that information between routine visits. That’s where SweetSpot comes in…

We’re thrilled to be kicking off our 2026 Morning Hatch lineup with Marc Bernstein, Founder & CEO of Balto AI! Marc will be presenting on “Winning Your First Customer.” If you’re an entrepreneur, small business owner, and/or innovator, this is your chance to learn from someone who has truly seen success in many forms. We’ll see you this Wednesday at T-REX (5th Floor) from 11am-12pm…

At OpsCompanion, we’re building software that helps companies reliably run the infrastructure their businesses depend on. All organizations operate on a mix of cloud services, software, databases, vendors, and internal systems, making it increasingly difficult to understand how everything fits together and quickly resolve issues when something breaks. OpsCompanion fixes this by automatically creating a live agentic map of a company’s technology. The platform provides clearer visibility, better cost control, increased engineering efficiency, and reduces the time spent on manual infrastructure work…

But for Avol Aerospace CEO Nate Poon and his partner, Dr. Matthew Sargeant, the solution was the easy part. With backgrounds in bioengineering, robotics and aerodynamics, the two were confident they could build an electric drone capable of flying farther and carrying more than others in its class. It was only when Poon returned to the familiar field of medical and health care logistics, where he spent a decade building robotics, that he found an application suited to the potential: urgent deliveries of medical products like blood, organs and tissue samples…

Andrew Barnell was featured on the New York Stock Exchange’s NYSE Floor Talk, sharing Geneoscopy’s mission from the NYSE floor. During the insightful interview, Andrew discussed how we are transforming gastrointestinal health through our FDA-approved at-home test, ColoSense. He highlighted our commitment to removing barriers to screening—like the “fear and discomfort” often associated with traditional methods—by offering a simple, high-sensitivity solution that requires no bowel prep…

We are excited to invite Resilia community members and any other interested nonprofits to use the beta of CapacityNow – a safe, secure and responsible AI-enabled solution for completing common nonprofit tasks. Our vision is a world in which an expert and you, in trust-based collaboration, use an AI tool to rapidly cross items off your to-do list, leaving more time for the reason you work in the nonprofit sector – the mission. And ultimately strengthening your nonprofit…

Join Stephen Von Rump and Amiad Fredman, MD, Cofounders of SweetSpot, for the BioGenerator Innovators Hour on Thursday, January 29th, in the Cortex Innovation District…