Murfie.com co-founder and CE member Matt Younkle was recently featured in the Executive Q&A section of the Wisconsin State Journal. Murfie is the latest venture from the serial entrepreneur, which turns your physical CDs into digital bits to be traded or sold online. Murfie currently has over 70,000 CDs stored that its members have sent …
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Not only is Madison the most educated city in the US, it was also just rated one of the 10 Great Cities for Young Adults by Kiplinger Magazine. Young, smart people are the cornerstone of Madison’s Capital Entrepreneurs community, and we agree that Madison is an amazing place. Madison consistently ranks as a top place …
CE member company Sector67 and 94labs were recently featured in the Sunday edition of the Wisconsin State Journal. Sector67 and 94labs were highlighted as entrepreneurial hubs in Madison and are “helping entrepreneurs create products and start companies more rapidly than ever before.” CE member Michael Fenchel’s mobile art collective was also highlighted, as well as …
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CE member company Murfie.com was recently featured in The Wall Street Journal. Murfie will take all of those CDs you have sitting around into the cloud age. They’ll send you a nice box in the mail, and then you send them your CDs. They’ll rip them and you’ll have digital versions on their website that …
The Capital Entrepreneurs Open Social will be this Wednesday August 24th from 7-9pm at Brocach. Our open social is part of the Forward Technology Festival, a 10 day series of events highlighting technology and entrepreneurship in Madison. The event is free and is one of the best ways to meet and network with some of …
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Note: This post originally appeared on Nathan Lustig’s Staying out of the Cubicle and is being reposted here. I’m excited to be working with Matt Younkle and Bryan Chan again this year to help put on Forward Technology Festival for the second year in a row. Last year was a huge success, and I’m really …
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The first ever Madison area Startup Accelerator is coming to Sector67 this weekend. If you are interested in small business and entrepreneurship, be sure to attend StartUp Accelerator Saturday, July 23 at Sector67 in Madison. StartUp Accelerator is an “unconference”, meaning that attendees propose the agenda at the beginning of the day. This event is …
CE members Chris Meyer of Sector67 and Greg Tracy of SMSMyBus and Asthmapolis had their “passion projects” featured in Madison Magazine. The article highlighted 3 Madisonians who have identified a need and invented a solution to address it, ultimately making Madison a better place. Be sure to check out the full article.
Madison was recently rated as one of the top 10 places to start a business in 2011 by the online magazine AskMen UK. Citing the vast amount of tax credits available to WI startups through the CORE Jobs Act, as well as the support of Capital Entrepreneurs, MERLIN Mentors, and the University, Madison continues to …
A new incubator and shared commercial kitchen for food based business will be opening in Madison later this year. The Food Enterprise & Economic Development Project (FEED) received nearly $375,000 in grants and loans “to help aspiring entrepreneurs start and grow local food businesses.” This incubator will provide a shared commercial kitchen space, training, and …
Spreenkler Talent Labs is hosting a 24 hour, multi-city hackathon starting today at 11am. The event is taking place in Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago, and New York. Prizes include automatic entry into their Summer Seed Incubator Program (valued at $20,000) for 1st place, $2,000 for 2nd place, and $1,000 for 3rd place. Zappos is also sponsoring …
Presentations from the TEDxMadtown event are now available on the TEDx YouTube Channel. TEDxMadtown took place in early March in Madison and featured speakers from CE. Check out the TEDxMadtown presentations from CE members Justin Beck and Greg Tracy. Justin Beck of PerBlue talking about Social Games and Virtual Goods Greg Tracy of Asthmapolis and …
Madison based startup Sologear has been acquired by BIC Corp (of Flick Your Bic). Sologear is the maker of the ethanol-based FlameDisk charcoal alternative used for grilling. FlameDisk was developed by Madison serial entrepreneur Chad Sorenson starting in 2005. It first debuted in 2008 and is available at many major retailers. The terms and acquisition …
CE member Murfie.com was featured in an article in the March edition of Madison Magazine. The article does a great job pointing out the positive impacts of innovation and entrepreneurship on the local economy and how policymakers, investors, and the media need to think a little differently to maximize the economic impacts of innovation. From …
Heidi Allstop of Spill will be moving to Boston this summer after being selected for TechStars. Techstars is one of the top two seed accelerators in the United States and just closed it’s newest class. Heidi will be joining 10 other startups that made the cut. Techstars startups have an incredibly high track record of …
Madison water-technology startup AquaMost received a $1 million investment from the Golden Angels and Wisconsin Investment Partners. AquaMost is developing a new type of water purification system developed by University of Wisconsin scientists. The money will be used to hire several engineers and lab associates to develop the system for commercial sale.
Madison biopharmaceutical company Mithridion recently secured $1.25 million in funding from Venture Investors, The State of Wisconsin Investment Board, and Rocket Venture Fund. Mithridion is developing drug candidates that focus on serious Central Nervous System disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease.
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.
Madison social media marketing platform Shoutlet announced that they’ve raised $6m in series B funding led by American Family Insurance. Shoutlet’s platform “gives brands and agencies the tools to create, manage, and measure their entire social media communications. Companies using Shoutlet’s platform are able to better design and implement highly targeted campaigns and ultimately improve …
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Capital Entrepreneurs member Greg Tracy’s new startup Asthmapolis took first prize in Twilio and Union Square Ventures’ contest to create the best app on Twilio. They beat out 50 other startups with “a terrifically broad range of applications, from fun simple hacks to ambitious projects,” writes Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures.
