Mobile and social gaming company PerBlue is being honored this month at the White House as part of the Empact100. The Empact100 list is comprised of the top 100 companies in the Empact Showcase, a compilation of the United States’ leading entrepreneurs who are age 30 and under, and whose annual revenues or operating budgets …
Build Madison is back with a few new tweaks and the same old crew to run our 3rd Community Create-a-thon Saturday-Sunday September 22-23, and it’s going to be the best one yet! Come together to show off and build the talent of Madison’s community while making real products from concept to completion in just 24 …
Capital Entrepreneurs co-founder and Startup Chile participant Nathan Lustig was featured on The Next Web. His startup Entrustet was part of the first Startup Chile class in 2010, and he compiled a summary of the alumni from his Startup Chile class. After 2 years, 45% still have businesses running in Chile and they have raised …
Be sure to head on over and check out the Capital Entrepreneurs Members page. It’s been updated all around, and now includes many of our new members. Capital Entrepreneurs now has nearly 200 members, all of which are Madison area entrepreneurs. Our Members page lists many of our member’s startups, and is a great way …
The UW-Madison College of Engineering just released their 2012 Annual Report video. The video highlights innovators with ties to UW – including Capital Entrepreneurs members Justin Beck of PerBlue and Chris Meyer of Sector67. UW-Madison is recognizing 2012-13 as the Year of Innovation, offering a chance to reflect on what this concept means to the …
Capital Entrepreneurs companies took the top spots in the 2012 Madison Favorites “Tech Startup” category, published by the Isthmus. PerBlue finished at the top, followed closely by Murfie. Thanks to everyone who voted!
The inaugural class from the Gener8tor seed accelerator program had their Launch Day yesterday in Milwaukee. The class of 7 companies completed a 12 week intensive program, and 4 of the 7 companies are from Madison. Gener8tor’s next class starts in January and will be based out of Madison – the application period for this …
One of the recurring themes throughout panels and sessions at the Forward Technology Conference on Wednesday was the importance for entrepreneurs to have a solid startup “pitch†well prepared. As part of the 2012 Forward Technology Festival, Capital Entrepreneurs hosted a Pitch Panel Thursday evening that gave aspiring entrepreneurs a risk-free venue to practice their …
The 2012 Forward Technology Festival is off to an amazing start. A few tickets still remain for the nearly sold out Forward Technology Conference which takes place Wednesday, August 22. The 2012 Forward Technology Conference represents the summer’s best opportunity to spend a day networking with some of the area’s top entrepreneurs and hearing from …
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 …
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 & …
