The Madison startup community had a very vibrant year in 2010. Capital Entrepreneurs grew much over the course of the year and emerged as a center point for the expanding and active startup community which as taken root in Madison. Many have begun to take note of Madison’s emerging role as the startup capital of the Midwest.
Capital Entrepreneurs was featured in an article in Madison Magazine on expanding the number of urban high-tech business downtown and in the Capitol East District. CE members Nate Lustig of Entrustet and Heidi Allstop of Student SPILL were also featured in the article.
Capital Entrepreneurs member Badger Trips has been selected as a finalist at the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards held at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City. Badger Trips is one of 33 finalists selected from more than 1,500 competitors and is in the running for $150,000 in cash and services.
Defrag Conference 2010 is taking place this week in Denver, CO and Capital Entrepreneurs is attending. The Kaufmann Foundation sponsored 25 young entrepreneurs to come to the conference and four Capital Entrepreneurs members were lucky recipients: Steve Faulkner of Real Time Txts, Dan Gordon and Mike Fenchel of Momenta Technologies, and Heidi Allstop of Student S.P.I.L.L. Click through for the highlights from day one.
Capital Entrepreneurs member Student Spill was featured in an article on ReadWriteWeb which was picked up by the New York Times. Student Spill is a service used by universities to aid students in dealing with personal problems. Students can anonymously submit descriptions of their personal problems and receive responses within 24 hours from trained student supporters.
Capital Entrepreneurs member company Entrustet was selected to be a part of Startup Chile. Startup Chile is a program started by the Chilean Government to bring 25 startups from around the world to Chile to help foster entrepreneurship.
Entrustet’s founders, Nathan Lustig and Jesse Davis, will be moving to Santiago November 15th to continue to run Entrustet. As part of Startup Chile, the Entrustet team will receive a $40,000 subsidy, free office space and connections into the Chilean entrepreneurship community.
Forrest Woolworth of PerBlue emailed me today to let me know that they just launched their third age of their popular mobile game Parallel Kingdom. Parallel Kingdom is a mobile, location based, MMORPG, or Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. PerBlue recently closed an $800,000 funding round and has been using the money to continue to grow their flagship game, Parallel Kingdom.
Capital Entrepreneurs member UlluTek was selected to present at the Early Stage Symposium next week in Madison.
Capital Entrepreneurs member Steve Faulkner will be featured on This Week in Startups with Jason Calacanis in 15 minutes, at 3:30 central time. Check out This Week In Startups and watch live to see Steve in the Shark Tank pitching his new startup Real Time Txts. Steve will be giving a 60 second pitch and …
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Last Friday was the grand opening of the Sector 67 hacker space in Madison. Â There were many members of Capital Entrepreneurs in attendance. Â Personally, I thought the event was fantastic. Great to see so many people out supporting this awesome new space in Madison. Check out their website for more information on upcoming events, otherwise …
Capital Entrepreneurs member Chris Meyer emailed me today to share that Sector 67 is hosting the grand opening this Friday. Sector 67 is Madison’s first hackerspace, which is a shared space “dedicated to providing members the opportunity to work on tomorrow’s technology; to build, collaborate, learn, and teach about next generation devices.” Hackerspaces have been …
Capital Entrepreneurs member GoBuzz alerted me that they’ve just launched their free email alert system this past week. “The GoBuzz system is designed to help professionals develop business relationships and strengthen industry knowledge,” says cofounder Dan Voell. Dan tells me that the software allows users to set up customized alerts which monitor industry, topic, and …
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Longtime CE members Dan Gordon and Michael Fenchel recently launched their website for their company Momenta Technologies. Check out the members page to see their logo, along with the rest of the CE members. From their site: Our dream is to use the power of the Internet to make watching television an interactive and social …
Audrey Watters of Read Write Web is doing a series about entrepreneurship outside Silicon Valley and Madison was the most recent featured city. The article called Nevermind the Valley: Here’s Madison talks about Capital Entrepreneurs, Merlin Mentors, The University of Wisconsin and a bunch of CE member companies including Entrustet, Student Spill and Networked Insights. …
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Bradley Grzesiak from Bendyworks is the newest member of Capital Entrepreneurs. Bendyworks is a software firm focusing on mobile and web application development. They deliver value constantly with a unique process that allows our clients to manage and direct their project at all times. It’s always fun when more people decide to join, so if …
We’re excited to announce that Boardman Law Firm has joined Capital Entrepreneurs as its 4th sponsor. They are now listed on our resources page, which also includes helpful startup tips and Madison, WI networking opportunities. Boardman Law Firm is one of the largest firms here in town and we’re really happy to be able to …
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Steve Faulkner of GeoHuddle was invited to write a guest post about startup culture in Madison. He wrote an article called Wisconsin: Beer, Cheese and…Startups, which included Capital Entrepreneurs, GeoHuddle, Networked Insights, Entrustet, Virent, PerBlue and Alice. It’s great to see Madison being recognized as one of the new, up and coming hotbeds of entrepreneurship …
Last night, MERLIN Mentors and Capital Entrepreneurs held a joint event at the University Research Park. It was a great opportunity for CE members to meet successful entrepreneurs in MERLIN Mentors and bridge the gap between some of the newer startups in town with those who have been successful in the past. Entrustet, PerBlue, GoBuzz, …
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On May 26th, we celebrated our one year anniversary with our 13th Capital Entrepreneurs meeting. Capital Entrepreneurs has grown from it’s original 10 members to over 60 young, growing startups. It’s been an awesome year, with CE members closing funding rounds worth over $7.5m and being featured in The Washington Post, New York Times, Tech …
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Capital Entrepreneurs member Powered Green was featured on EcoStreet to promote their Earth Day give away. From the link: An Energy Seal is a sticker made from recycled aluminium that represents a carbon offset for a computer. Each Energy Seal symbolizes that renewable energy sources have produced an equal amount of energy used by a …
