Tech In Chicago
By Colin Keeley
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Description
Tech In Chicago takes you inside the Chicago tech world. Each week Colin Keeley is joined by Chicago’s top startup founders and venture capitalists to talk about the amazing companies being built right here. Visit TechInChicago.co for more information.
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CleanBuilding a Platform for the $112 Billion Party Planning Industry - Julie Novack / Co-Founder of PartySlate | Julie Novack is the CEO and a Co-Founder of PartySlate, a startup building a two-sided platform that allows event professionals to share their work and party hosts to gain inspiration from it. PartySlate has raised $2.6 million from investors... | 5/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHelping NBA and NFL Players Sleep More and Play Better - Jeff Kahn / Co-Founder of Rise Science | Jeff Kahn is a Co-Founder and CEO of Rise Science, a sleep behavior change startup that provides sleep coaching for elite athletes. They harness the science behind sleep, and give elite athletes the power to perform at their best with... | 3/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRevolutionizing Small Business Lending with Data & Technology - George Souri / Founder of LQD Business Finance | George Souri is the Founder and CEO of LQD Business Finance, a startup providing quick, convenient, and affordable financing to small and medium-sized businesses that are traditionally underbanked. LQD is leveraging data to offer... | 2/22/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTroy Henikoff of Techstars on Crafting a Great Pitch, the Power of 0, Cycling, BB8, & Transforming Startups in 90 Days | Troy Henikoff is the Managing Director at Techstars Chicago, a Managing Director at MATH Venture Partners, and a Professor of Entrepreneurship at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Business. If you haven't heard of Troy yet, he is... | 1/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow to Build a Two Sided Marketplace & Fixing Car Maintenance - Greg Tepas / Founder of CarAdvise | Greg Tepas is the Founder and CEO of CarAdvise, a startup that makes car maintenance easy and transparent. CarAdvise acts as a personal auto repair concierge and advisor for car owners. They provide an unbiased opinion on proposed work and estimated... | 12/31/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBuilding the Future of Business Intelligence, Lessons From Techstars & Value in the Imperfect - Jeff Judge / Founder of Bright | Jeff Judge is the Founder and CEO of Bright, a startup that helps SaaS companies quickly understand their core metrics, and gives them the tools to grow faster. Bright just graduated from the 2016 Techstars class here in Chicago. Before founding... | 12/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSitting down with the Warby Parker of Furniture - Rob Royer / Founder of Interior Define | Rob Royer is the Founder and CEO of Interior Define, a startup that builds furniture on demand and will customize everything, including the size, shape, color, fabric, filling, and frame. Rob was one of the early employees at Bonobos and took much of... | 12/3/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBuilding the Warby Parker of Men's Skincare - Mia Saini & Laura Lisowski / Co-Founders of Oars + Alps | Mia Saini & Laura Lisowski are Co-Founders of Oars + Alps, a new e-commerce startup selling men’s skincare products that target an "athleisure guy on the go". Their first products are a face moisturizer, a deodorant, and a face wash in stick... | 11/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow 3D Carving & 3D Printing Will Shape the Future - Zach Kaplan / Founder of Inventables | Zach Kaplan is the Founder and CEO of Inventables, which makes software and hardware for 3D carving. Their flagship products Easel, Carvey, and X-Carve are used by a new wave of makers to make everything from circuit boards to skate boards. Zach was... | 11/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJellyvision’s Amanda Lannert on Humor, Culture, Sharks, Diversity, Liberal Arts, Massage Chairs, and Networking | Amanda Lannert is the CEO of Jellyvision, which makes ALEX, an interactive decision-support tool that talks you through traditionally boring and confusing human resource decisions like picking health insurance and makes them fun... | 11/3/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Future of the Gig Economy With VC Turned Founder - Eddie Lou / Co-Founder of Shiftgig | Eddie Lou is the CEO and Co-Founder of Shiftgig, a mobile, two-sided labor marketplace connecting large venues in the service and hospitality industries with locally available and previously vetted hourly workers. Shiftgig is one of the... | 10/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSolving Big Problems With Big Data - Dan Wagner / Founder of Civis Analytics | Dan Wagner is the Founder and CEO of Civis Analytics, a startup that helps companies, non-profits, and campaigns leverage their data to develop smarter strategy, make better decisions, and build stronger, data-driven organizations. ... | 10/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanVirtual Reality, the Future of Retail, & Selling to Big Business - Tracey Wiedmeyer / Co-Founder of InContext Solutions | Tracey Wiedmeyer is the CTO and a Co-Founder of InContext Solutions, the leader in scalable virtual reality (VR) shopping and retail solutions. InContext Solutions lets manufacturers and retailers simulate real in-store shopping situations... | 10/13/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSpotHero's Mark Lawrence on Building a Marketplace Business, Meditation, & Why If It's Not a F**k Yes, It's a F**k No | Mark Lawrence is the CEO and Co-Founder of SpotHero, an on-demand parking app and website that makes drivers’ lives easier by helping them find and reserve a parking for up to 50% off. Mark along with his co-founders started the company... | 10/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMachine Learning, Fintech, & the Future of Payments - Canh Tran / Co-Founder of Rippleshot | Canh Tran is the CEO and Co-Founder of Rippleshot, a startup that detects payment card data breaches. They take a big-data machine learning approach, more common in search, genetics and advertising, and apply it in a novel way for... | 9/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSparking Conversations One Shoe at a Time - Raaja Nemani / Co-Founder of Bucketfeet | Raaja Nemani is a Co-Founder and CEO of Bucketfeet, a footwear startup that collaborates with a global community of artists to design limited-edition shoes. The idea began in Argentina when Aaron Firestein gave Raaja a pair of hand-designed... | 9/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat Does the Future of Education Look Like? - Shaily Baranwal / Founder of Elevate K-12 & Classblox | Shaily Baranwal is the CEO and Founder of Elevate K-12 and Classblox. Elevate K-12 provides digital instruction and online resources to millions of at-risk students across the US. Since launching in 2008, Elevate K-12... | 9/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDisrupting the Used Car Market With Data - Kayne Grau / Founder of DRIVIN | Kayne Grau is a Co-Founder and CEO of DRIVIN, a startup changing the way used-car dealers source their used-car inventory. Before founding DRIVIN, Kayne was the CTO at Cars.com. Using proprietary technology and actionable local market data,... | 9/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhy Join A Tech Accelerator & Why VCs Start Accelerators - Constance Freedman / VC @ Moderne Ventures | Constance Freedman is the Founder and Managing Partner of Moderne Ventures, an early stage venture fund and accelerator investing in technology companies in real estate, mortgage, finance, insurance, and home services. These are... | 8/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat An Ideal Startup Looks Like & Deal Sourcing With A Podcast - Nick Moran / The Full Ratchet | Nick Moran is a co-founder and Managing Director of New Stack Ventures and Moran Capital Partners. He also started the very popular The Full Ratchet podcast, where he interviews venture capital and angel investing experts... | 8/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow To Deal With Bad Press & Competing In The Crowded Coffee Market - Philip Tadros / Founder Doejo & Bow Truss | Philip Tadros is a true serial entrepreneur and restauranteur. He is the founder of Doejo, a digital agency, Dollop Coffee, a cafe and bakery, Bow Truss Coffee, a coffee roastery and cafe, The Budlong, a hot chicken restaurant... | 8/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPersonalized Medicine, 3D Printing, Snapchat & Networking - Dima Elissa / Founder of VisMed3D | Dima Elissa is the founder and CEO of VisMed3D, a startup providing 3D surgical patient replicas for state-of-the-art treatment and training of doctors. Based in Matter, the startup is on the cutting edge of personalized medicine. In addition to her... | 7/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanArtificial Intelligence, Healthcare Startups, Wearables & Diversity - Star Cunningham / Founder of 4DHealthware | Star Cunningham is the Founder and CEO of 4DHealthware, a startup that provides artificially intelligent "nudges", SMS and email messages, to patients with chronic conditions based on data collected via 250 wearable devices like bluetooth... | 7/13/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanInvesting In Design-Led Companies & What Chicago Tech Is Missing - John Roa / AKTA & Roa Ventures | John Roa is a serial tech entrepreneur and long time Chicagoan. He got his entrepreneurial start by creating a computer repair business at 14 and hasn't stopped since. Last year, he sold ÄKTA, his tech-consulting and design firm, to... | 7/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLivestreaming, Virtual Reality, E-Sports & Hiring Your Biggest Critic - Stu Grubbs / Founder of Infiniscene | Stu Grubbs is a Co-Founder and CEO of Infiniscene, a startup building the easiest way to livestream video. They enable gamers, and now Facebook and Youtube streamers, to easily create beautiful live broadcasts in their web browser without any... | 6/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Future Of Food Tech & How To Raise $100k In Your First Day On Kickstarter - David Rabie / Founder of Tovala | David Rabie is the Founder and CEO of Tovala, the creator of a smart oven that cooks perfectly made meals by baking, boiling and steaming them in under 30 minutes. The meals can either be delivered prepackaged from Tovala or be made using a... | 6/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow To Decide If Your Idea Is Worth Pursuing & How To Sell Your Product - Landon Shoop / Co-Founder of Fizz | Landon Shoop, along with his wife Jennifer Shoop, started Fizz, a team management tool that makes developing employees easy. At his old job, Landon became frustrated while preparing for another yearly performance review and he decided there... | 6/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSocial Impact, Helping Clinton Beat Trump & Engaging Communities - Michael Slaby / Founder of Timshel | Michael Slaby is the Founder and Head of Mission of Timshel, a startup that has developed a platform called The Groundwork to give organizations and brands more powerful digital tools to analyze all the data they are producing, help them organize... | 6/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWorking with Obama, Empowering Non-Profits, & How Bands Are Like Startups - Jason Kunesh / Co-Founder of Public Good | Jason Kunesh is a co-founder and CEO of Public Good Software, a startup aiming to make donating to non-profits as easy as ordering something on Amazon. Before starting PGS, Jason was the Director of UX for Obama's 2012 reelection campaign and part of... | 5/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow To Land A Job At A Startup & The Biggest Mistake 1st Time Founders Make - Gale Bowman / Founding Director of Irish Angels | Gale Bowman is the founding director of Irish Angels, an angel network dedicated to early stage investments in which a founder, board member, or active investor is a student, graduate, parent, or faculty member of the University of Notre Dame.... | 5/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBootstrapping to 300+ Employees & Offices on 3 Continents - Craig Vodnik / Co-Founder of Cleverbridge | Craig Vodnik is a co-founder of Cleverbridge, a global subscription billing provider. Founded in 2005, Cleverbridge has grown to 300+ employees with offices in Cologne (Germany), Chicago, San Francisco and Tokyo. They have done this all... | 5/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow To Steal Business Away From Multi-Billion Dollar Competitors - Jacob Babcock / Founder of NuCurrent | Jacob Babcock is the founder and CEO of NuCurrent, a wireless power company that has designed the world's fastest, smallest, and most efficient wireless power antennas. If you have ever wondered why we still have to deal with all these charging... | 4/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhy Pornographers & Criminals Make For Great Customers & Chicago Tech History - Jeff Carter / VC at Hyde Park Angels & West Loo | Jeff Carter is a co-founder of Hyde Park Angels, one of the most active angel groups in the United States, and he is currently raising a VC fund, named West Loop Ventures. Before becoming an angel he was a trader for over 25 years and he... | 4/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow Clean Eating Helped Beat Chronic Illness & Launch Her Startup - Katlin Smith / Founder of Simple Mills | Katlin Smith is the founder of Simple Mills, a food startup that only uses simple, whole food ingredients. While working as a consultant, Katlin discovered she had a gluten-sensitivity and started experimenting with her almond-flour baking mixes on... | 4/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFrom Professional Poker Player To Chicago's Fastest Rising VC - Ezra Galston / Chicago Ventures | Ezra Galston is a VC at Chicago Ventures. At CV, Ezra focuses on consumer facing investment and is actively involved with BloomNation, Kapow Events, Luxury Garage Sale, Shiftgig, SpotHero, Zipments, and Havenly. He writes one of my favorite VC blogs... | 3/31/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBuilding A New Media Company & Why Critical Feedback Is The Best - Neal Rothschild / Founder of Rooster | Neal Rothschild is the founder of Rooster, a 6-minute daily podcast that updates you on all the news you need to know. Neal just launched Rooster at the beginning of this year and it was great to interview a founder just getting started on a really... | 3/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhy You Should Ask For Advice Instead Of Money - Rod Rakic / Founder of OpenAirplane | Rod Rakic is the founder of OpenAirplane, a plane sharing marketplace. OpenAirplane makes it easy for pilots to find, book, and pay for aircraft rentals online or on their phones. Renting an airplane is now as easy as renting a car. Listen on itunes... | 3/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMaking The Jump From Investment Banking to Startups - Ryan Coon / Founder of Rentalutions | Ryan Coon is the founder of Rentalutions and a former investment banker. Rentalutions provides all-in-one landlord management software. Whether you manage one unit or multiple buildings, Rentalutions gives you the ability to receive electronic rent... | 3/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDisrupting the Eye Exam Industry & Raising Money in a Down Market - Aaron Dallek / Co-Founder of Opternative | Aaron Dallek is a serial entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Opternative - the world’s first online eye exam. The exam can be taken from anywhere, at anytime, and a doctor issued prescription can be used to shop everywhere. The exam only takes 25 minutes... | 3/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat Makes A Great Brand & How To Cut Through The Noise - David Gardner / Founder of ColorJar | David Gardner is the founder and CEO of ColorJar, a Chicago-based creative tech agency. Before founding ColorJar, David was a professional basketball player and a founder of a social network in India. ColorJar specializes in branding and creating... | 3/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
So happy to see this
I am glad Chicago finally has its own podcast dedicated to the startup community. Colin does a great job teasing out interesting stories and advice from the entrepreneurs. Looking forward to more episodes!
Worlds greatest tech podcast
Tech In Chicago is the worlds greatest tech podcast and I mean that in every sense of the word. It is by far the most informative and interesting podcast you will ever listen to. Truly in a league of its own. 5 stars all the way!
Excellent connection to the Chicago community
Tech in Chicago is truly a fantastic hyper local podcast that is both informative and entertaining. Hearing the stories of local entrepreneurs is riveting, and Keeley does a nice job of guiding founders to interesting stories and insight.
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