Capital Entrepreneurs member company Flextory has recently launched a free public beta of its inventory system. Flextory is a web-based inventory system designed to handle many asset tracking scenarios through the use of customizable item types, categories, and attribute data types. Flextory also includes an Android app that lets you scan in barcodes generated by …
The 2012 Forward Technology Festival kicks off today and begins an 11 day series of events that showcase Madison’s entrepreneurship and creative communities. The Festival is highlighted by the Forward Technology Conference, and be sure to check out the other awesome events coming up. Capital Entrepreneurs is hosting a pitch contest as part of the …
PerBlue Co-Founder and CEO Justin Beck kicked off the Game Developers Conference Europe this week with a presentation titled “Bootstrapping 101”. The session highlighted the fork-in-the-road moments of PerBlue’s path from bootstrapping, to raising money, to today. PerBlue’s “Parallel” series of location-based RPG mobile games have over 1.5 million players worldwide. PerBlue also sees Android …
Kiplinger has rated Madison as the top city for young adults. The rankings looked for cities with a strong job market with growth potential, affordable housing for twentysomethings living on an entry-level salary and a vibrant social scene. Madison edged out Austin, Boston, D.C., and Denver to take the top spot. Kiplinger called Madison “…an …
Sector67 is hosting the Wisconsin 3D Printing Camp on Saturday (July 21). The free “unconference” will focus on the emerging technology of 3D printing and bring together 3D printing enthusiasts from across the US. Participants who own 3D printers, or who have created cool products using them, are encouraged to bring them. And the unconference …
Capital Entrepreneurs founding member PerBlue launched the latest mobile game of their “Parallel” franchise today. Parallel Zombies is a zombie infested location-based RPG exclusively for Android. Gamers will team up with other survivors, either their friends or nearby players, using GPS technology to complete missions and help save the world. Download the game here, or …
The Madison Economic Development Committee got a glimpse into the burgeoning Madison startup scene and heard the “State of the Startup” last night. The Madison EDC meeting was devoted entirely to a discussion on “Building Madison’s Tech Startup Community” and featured a panel of Capital Entrepreneurs members Chris Meyer (Sector67), Brad Grzesiak (Bendyworks), Preston Austin …
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Capital Entrepreneurs member company Asthmapolis recently received FDA clearance for their asthma sensor system. The small GPS enabled sensor attaches to the top of asthma inhalers and captures when and where the inhalor is used. This opens up many possibilities to use the collected data to track inhaler usage, asthma outbreaks, and much more. Check …
The 3rd Annual Forward Technology Festival is on the way. FTF 2012 will run from August 16 – August 25 and is a ten day long series of events that showcases Madison’s entrepreneurship and creative community. The festival is headlined by the Forward Technology Conference, which will take place Wednesday, August 22. Capital Entrepreneurs will …
Capital Entrepreneurs member company Vidmaker has completed a $652,000 round of funding. Vidmaker recently graduated from the TechStars Cloud program in San Antonio. Vidmaker is a social video platform where anyone can create video and share it everywhere and provides powerful browser-based video editing tools and a mobile app for video uploads.
Madison has been ranked as a leading high-tech hub nationally. This Technology Index ranking is based on economic competitiveness in the technology field and combines a measure of the concentration of high-tech companies, and two measures of regional innovation – patents per capita and average annual patent growth. Madison’s “budding tech hub” centered around the …
Guest post by WomStreet Co-Founder Matt Ford. WomStreet is a competitive social media hub that hosts large scale video and photo contests for companies in order to create genuine brand engagement. They were one of 25 companies recently invited to “TechStars for a Day” in Boston. The WomStreet founding team, Ryan Schmukler, Alex Kreindler & …
Madison was recently highlighted as a “vibrant tech hub” in Fast Company. Madison has seen significant growth in the tech space, and is now home to many established tech companies as well as a burgeoning tech startup community. The article highlights the first tech startup wave to hit Madison almost 20 years ago and its …
The Isthmus has added a “Favorite Tech Startup” category to their yearly Madison Favorites poll. That’s right, now along with voting for your favorite Food Cart, Beer Bar, and Coffee Shop you can cast your vote for your favorite Madison area Tech Startup! Can we get a Capital Entrepreneurs member company to take the top …
Capital Entrepreneurs member company Portable Scores recently completed Haxlr8r – the first accelerator program for startups building hardware products – based in Shenzhen, China and the Bay area. Portable Scores is a portable, connected scoreboard. It’s small enough to fit in a backpack but big enough to see across a field and can be controlled …
Capital Entrepreneurs member company Style Shuffler was recently featured in the “Hot Trends” segment on NBC 15. Style Shuffler allows shoppers to use the scan function on their mobile phone to scan the tag on their favorite item at a clothing store and Style Shuffler automatically recommends complementary in-store pieces that pare well with the …
Capital Entrepreneurs member company UConnect was featured in this week’s Executive Q&A section of the Wisconsin State Journal. UConnect is a food ordering company that connects restaurants around the country with customers. Over 100 local restaurants are signed up on UConnect’s Madison based site BadgerBites. UConnect is now in 14 different markets around the country …
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Water Technology Startup Day is happening July 11, 2012 and is a great opportunity for entrepreneurs in the water industry. The Golden Angels Investors will be partnering with Imagine H2O and the Milwaukee Water Council to put on this event. The Golden Angels Investors is an 80 member angel-investing network (and Capital Entrepreneurs sponsor) based …
This week, some of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s best minds are learning how to take new ideas to market and launch them into businesses at the Wisconsin School of Business’s Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Bootcamp. The camp is aimed at graduate students studying chemistry, biology, law, engineering and other sciences at UW-Madison. More than 60 graduate-level students …
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Madison and Milwaukee based seed incubator and accelerator gener8tor is officially off the ground. With roots from 94labs, gener8tor looks to provide money and mentoring to young tech companies. The first class of 5 teams for gener8tor’s 12-week incubator program starts this summer in Milwaukee, while the next class will start January 2013 in Madison. …
