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…
Chicago's fintech ecosystem was born on the trading floor, and the derivatives culture that created CME, Morningstar, and the prop trading firms is the…
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…
Databricks has raised approximately 15.3 billion dollars, with a valuation surge from 33 billion to 62 billion dollars, capitalizing on the AI boom. This…
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…
Databricks has raised 1.6 billion dollars in a single funding round, led by Counterpoint Global, the Morgan Stanley fund, at a valuation of 38…
France strengthens its quantum technology efforts through national strategy elements and increased public investment around 2021–2022.
On September 16, 2020, Snowflake goes public, and it does so in spectacular fashion. The stock was priced at 120 dollars per share ahead…
VillageMD's 2020 Walgreens megadeal, and a pandemic that moved venture capital to Zoom, reset the odds for Chicago startups and set up the 2021…
Snowflake has raised 479 million dollars at a valuation of 12.4 billion dollars, in what looks likely to be its final private funding round…
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.
The same year the Hadoop old guard is merging in retreat, Snowflake is doing the opposite: raising a 450 million dollar round that values…
Snowflake has stopped being a promising stealth startup and become one of the fastest-growing software companies in the world. It has raised a large…
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