In 2016, Madison startups continued to be an engine of economic growth. They drove strong net job creation, raised a record amount of funding, and solidified as well as expanded their physical presence in the community. Madison startups now employ 825 full-time and 300 part-time people*. In 2016 they created 150 new full-time and 135 …
The year of 2016 was another action-packed year for PerBlue. Much of the year was focused on scaling our newest game DragonSoul into the largest and most successful title we’ve released to date. In less than 1 year since launch it amassed over 9 million players, emerged as a top 10 mobile RPG, and grew …
2016 was a great year for the Ionic Team. Earlier this Spring we closed our $9M Series A led by General Catalyst in Boston and Palo Alto, grew the team in Madison, and continued to build out a powerful suite of tools and services to help developers build better mobile apps faster and cheaper than …
The year was a defining one for Rabble and MUSICat, the local music platform we’re building with public libraries. We launched several new sites: PlayBack with The Seattle Public Library in August, BoomBox with Nashville Public Library in October, and an upgraded Yahara Music Library with Madison Public Library in December. Edmonton Public Library’s MUSICat …
After two years of winding down a legacy CMS company and ramping up another, Field59 officially took off. We brought in new, multi-year video contracts for a 72% increase in revenue over 2015. We’re still bootstrapping our business, and even turned down an opportunity that wasn’t right for us. One thing that remains the same, …
2016 was a great year for Noble Applications, and as we do every year, we want to express our gratitude to our team, customers, partners, and the local business community. We turned 4 years old in September, we moved our offices to 44 East Mifflin in October, and we recently launched our new website. Security …
2016 was a year of growth for Updown as we continue to build our vision of delivering a personalized workout experience. We saw our user base for the Updown Fitness app grow from 3,000 to nearly 50,000 and the app consistently has maintained a very high rating. We released the paid subscription version of the …
In 2016, we nearly doubled the size of our team and project revenue building custom virtual reality applications. We completed a large Oculus Rift virtual reality application for a $360 million student community at Texas A&M, along with a trade show application for Wessels, an industrial product manufacturer to showcase their products. We also completed …
2017 To bring us into 2017, we’ll first be looking back at 2016. A lot of great things happened within the Capital Entrepreneurs community and the Madison Startup Scene and we’d like to share them. As in prior years, we’ll be kicking off with a series of posts from Capital Entrepreneurs companies summarizing their year …
