Randolph Restaurant Row lacks an abundance of weekday breakfast options, and that’s the void the Eastman Egg Company wants to fill. Ownership today opened their West Loop location, the third restaurant for the burgeoning local mini-chain. While the first two restaurants serve a downtown/commuter crowd, founder and CEO Hunter Swartz is excited to serve locals in more of a […]
Tracey Wiedmeyer, the Chief Technology Officer from Incontext Solutions, talked to Scott Kitun about the scalable cloud-based virtual reality (VR) shopping and retail solutions that they offer. They also dive into how VR can help predict consumer behavior and looked at the virtual reality market research technology. Twitter @kristendecker Hear the interview on WGN Plus
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This is our monthly feature where we recap the biggest tech hires in Chicago over the past month. Here’s our list of the top hires in Chicago tech for October: kCura Chicago-based legal tech company kCura announced this month that it has hired Lisa Arthur as its chief marketing officer. Most recently, Arthur spent five years as CMO of […]
Last week’s cyberattacks that caused widespread disruption on the Internet were a drag for anyone surfing the web. But they could give a big lift to a Chicago-based startup called Xaptum. The company launched three years ago with the idea that security would be one of the major challenges for the Internet of Things, or […]
It’s been a challenging year for Intel Capital. After admitting earlier this year that he was undertaking a comprehensive review of the chipmaker’s corporate venture capital arm, including possibly dumping some of its assets for an estimated $1 billion, Intel Capital’s president Wendell Brooks committed this week to keep its existing investment portfolio of just over 400 companies. “We’re not […]
When it comes to the next generation of technology products, it makes very little sense for them to be equipped with charging ports. Autonomous crop-suveying drones become much more inefficient if you have to manually plug them into a wall at night. Smart clothes with built-in computer chips can’t be thrown in the wash if […]
From pottery lessons to walking tours and home cooking classes, group experiences are a great way to spend an evening in good company. Occasion, a Chicago-based startup, wants to make it easier for organizers to put on such events by bringing booking, payments, customer service and marketing into a single application. “If you want […]
Nothing ruins the fun of a group activity like coordinating schedules or trying to get paid back by friends for tickets. Occasion, a Chicago startup launched in 2013, has raised $1.25 million to add features to its appointment calendar software, the company announced Tuesday. A new private group system will let friends invite each other to buy tickets for the […]
Occasion team, with founder Aksh Gupta in center (Credit Occasion) Occasion Deal: $1.25 million Investors: The round was led by Hyde Park Angels. Other investors include Bluestein & Associates, and angel investors Marcin Kleczynski, Malwarebytes founder and CEO, and Patrick Spain, former chairman and CEO of Hoover’s. What they do: Occasion provides ecommerce calendering solutions […]
