Nothing's third community investment round closed with 13,000 total investors across 80 countries, having raised $16M since 2021. The real value was never the…
Nothing closed a $200M Series C at a $1.3B valuation in September 2025, led by Tiger Global with Qualcomm Ventures and Nikhil Kamath as…
Chicago's flagship tech incubator 1871 leaves the Merchandise Mart after 13 years, ending an era but not the network that produced Tempus, a dozen…
Outcome Health, once a celebrated Chicago healthtech startup, was later exposed for fraud, inflating revenue by $1 billion through false advertising sales. Convicted founders…
Databricks is now valued at around 33 billion dollars, down from the 38 billion it reached just over a year ago. For a company…
2022 is the year the music stops. After more than a decade of cheap money, soaring valuations, and seemingly unlimited growth, the technology industry…
In 2021 Chicago minted around a dozen unicorns and celebrated Unicorn Day: project44, ShipBob, M1 Finance, Cameo, ActiveCampaign and more. The boom, and the…
Tempus Labs became Chicago's standout unicorn in 2018, opening a historic run. How Eric Lefkofsky's precision-medicine company built on the Groupon and Grubhub era.
Forty-five billion dollars. A five-year-old company that openly sells its phones at close to cost is now the most valuable private startup on the…
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