Things move and change fast on the FinTech Frontier- and company names are no exception. Earlier this month, a local fintech announced that they had rebranded, and would continue their work under a new name. As you could have guessed by the title of this post- that fintech would be none other than AKRU (formerly …
Marvin Abrinica is not alone in starting his career at Procter & Gamble. But since leaving in 2015, he has had an incredible breadth of experiences – founding a branding firm, Esoteric Brewing Co – an Asian and Black-owned brewery, and Wunderfund, an equity crowd investing platform. Raising capital is always a topic of interest …
Born out of the idea that the slideshow is a fantastic way to more deeply engage audiences, Stackerdecks is a format to easily create those slideshows from not only images, but content found on social media and the web. But Stackerdecks doesn’t just make slideshows, they also make them distributable and embeddable – much like …
The term Internet of Things (IoT) was coined around 2000 and centers on the idea of taking some hardware, some software, giving them connectivity and using data gathered by these devices to glean actionable insights into our lives and businesses. Which sounds simple enough. But, the IoT industry has grown substantially in the last five …
Midwest entrepreneurs solve problems. And not problems like “How to make noodle soup” but problems like “How do we make industrial chemistry labs more efficient.” Granted the later problem isn’t as sexy (or as tasty) as an app that tells you how to make miso but it’s a real problem. It’s also the problem Olivier …
During the last half of the 20th century, collecting and collectibles have exploded in popularity and, in particular, collecting around pop culture. But even as the demand for collectibles grew there still wasn’t a digital platform for collectors to congregate, catalog what they have and what they want and find the items to make their …