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JumpStart Ventures Awarded $35M To Invest In Promising Tech Startups Across Ohio

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Lt. Governor Jon Husted and the Ohio Department of Development have made a landmark investment in Ohio's tech economy by announcing $86 million in funding awarded to venture capital funds across the state.

By |2024-05-01T15:07:48-04:00May 1, 2024|News|

JumpStart Ventures Announces Ohio VC Fest to Ignite Venture Capital Activity Statewide

JumpStart Ventures is introducing Ohio VC Fest, a multi-faceted event bringing together tech founders, investors, corporate leaders and entrepreneurs to amplify tech-based innovation across Ohio.

By |2023-06-21T16:43:43-04:00June 21, 2023|News|

Octet Scientific closes $1M funding round for chemical manufacturing in clean energy

Octet Scientific, Inc., a Cleveland-based maker of specialty chemicals for safe, sustainable batteries, has completed its seed-stage fundraising round, led by the Advanced Manufacturing Fund (AMF), powered by JumpStart Ventures with support from MAGNET. The AMF invests in early-stage physical-product [...]

By |2023-04-25T20:55:11-04:00April 25, 2023|News|

Inphlu Announces Integration with ChatGPT to Enhance Employee Advocacy Platform

Inphlu, a leading employee advocacy platform, announced its integration of ChatGPT, a cutting-edge language model developed by OpenAI. Inphlu enables businesses to leverage their employee's influence on social media platforms by streamlining content creation and sharing. The integration with ChatGPT [...]

By |2023-04-06T18:53:08-04:00April 6, 2023|News|

Boomtown Rebrands To OvationCXM, Lands $20M In Funding Fueled By Record Growth And Significant Customer Expansion

The customer experience management company sees spike in demand, expands partnerships with KeyBank, adds Coca Cola, Nuvei, Alviere and more. TIBURON, Calif. (Sept. 13, 2022) — OvationCXM, previously Boomtown, a global leader in customer experience management (CXM), today announced [...]

By |2022-09-13T13:23:09-04:00September 13, 2022|News|

Online B2B steel marketplace & supply chain platform Felux raises $19M Series A to digitize outdated industrial commerce

The round was led by EquipmentShare and joined by Signia Venture Partners, Suffolk Construction, Expa, Lightbank, 8VC, and JumpStart Ventures among others.

By |2022-06-02T13:39:35-04:00June 2, 2022|News|