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[caption id align="alignnone" width="6967"] Anthony Joy, CIO of Cleveland Metroparks [/caption] Most people hear “parks” and think of hiking trails and picnic tables. But Anthony Joy, the first-ever Chief Information Officer for Cleveland Metroparks, sees something much more complex: a 25,000-acre network spanning
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A regional coalition led by Case Western Reserve University has been named a semifinalist for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) prestigious Regional Innovation Engines program. The federal initiative is offering up to $160 million in federal funding over 10 years. Known as NEO-SMART (Northeast Ohio Smart Materials Acceleration for
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Remarcable, a construction tech startup streamlining procurement for trade contractors, has raised $15 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Insight Partners of New York City. The Cleveland-area company builds digital tools that unify how contractors manage materials, tools, and prefab components. Remarcable’s technology connects field
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Robert Marks has built big before. In 1999, he launched Fidelity Voice and Data with just $600 and a bold vision to expand internet access across Ohio. Over the next 15 years, he scaled it into a $30 million telecommunications and cloud services business, building data centers in Cleveland, Columbus,
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="1600"] AgileBlue President Tony Pietrocola [/caption] When Tony Pietrocola co-founded AgileBlue in early 2020, he didn’t come from a traditional cybersecurity background. But what he lacked in credentials, he made up for with entrepreneurial instinct and an appetite for solving
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A coalition of Ohio’s public universities has formally backed the effort to relocate NASA’s headquarters from Washington, D.C. to Cleveland. In a letter to President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, the Inter-University Council of Ohio—representing the state’s 14 public universities—urged federal
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Cleveland-based Coologics has closed an oversubscribed $3 million+ seed round—doubling its original $1.5 million target. The clinical-stage medical device company is developing Vlisse, a drug-free intravaginal cooling device for the treatment of vaginal infections, including bacterial vaginosis and yeast infections. Why it matters More than 6.5 million
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="6504"] James Voos, MD, Jack and Mary Herrick Distinguished Chair in Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine at University Hospitals and Executive Director at the Haslam Sports Innovation Center [/caption] Sports tech startups across the globe are being called to Cleveland for a
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="1600"] Isaiah Kaiser, CEO of Auxilium Health [/caption] Cleveland-based HealthTech startup Auxilium Health announced this week it has closed an oversubscribed $1.5 million pre-seed funding round—surpassing its original $1.2 million goal. The company targets the major wound care
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JumpStart has opened applications for Cohort 3 of its Trailblazer Software Accelerator, offering up to $125,000 in non-dilutive funding and extensive startup support for early-stage innovators. The application deadline is April 27, 2025. Unlike traditional accelerators, Trailblazer takes no equity. Instead, it invests directly in founders through a combination
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Northeast Ohio-based orthobrain, a tech-enabled orthodontic service platform, has secured $7.5 million in new funding. The capital injection aims to accelerate the company's growth and further develop its technology which helps dentists and dental service organizations integrate orthodontics into their practices. This funding round highlights the continued
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="5210"] Justin Wray, Executive Partner and Innovation Officer of MorelandConnect - left [/caption] MorelandConnect, a Cleveland-based software development firm, saw artificial intelligence as an opportunity to push the boundaries of innovation. Instead of waiting to see how AI would reshape industries,