Mike Mercier

Mike Mercier, founder and CEO of VonMercier, joins the show with Scott Kitun. They talk about how changing what we can do with vehicles, starting with the idea of VonMercier’s electric hovercraft Arosa. Mike dives into his 10-year founding journey with late nights and weekends dedicated to coming up with the concept, finding the right…

Cody Barbo

Cody Barbo, founder and CEO of Trust & Will, comes back on the show with Scott Kitun. Cody catches up with Scott after three years of growing the Trust & Will business from a seed round CF raise on Republic to a $15 million Series B and recent venture round led by UBS. They talk…

Alex Wilhelm

Alex Wilhelm, Senior Editor at TechCrunch and well-known as @alex on Twitter, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Scott and Alex share their feels being able to talk to so many founders and struggles keeping up on email. They run through Alex’s Chicago roots and Technori nostalgia – Alex talks about how Technori events helped…

Tyla-Simone Crayton

Tyla-Simone Crayton, the 16-year-old founder of Sienna Sauce came up with her delicious formula while her mom was hosting Wine and Wings. After the initial taste test stunned the room, Tyla-Simone recreated the sauce with better ingredients that cut out the excessive sugar and sodium than your regular bottle of ketchup or other condiment, and…

Funding Your Startup Has Never Been Easier

As MicroVentures brings fee-free investing to the equity crowdfunding community, other platforms will either evolve or become dinosaurs. Once other crowdfunding platforms follow suit, it will make the small-business investment community a more welcoming place.   MicroVentures, an online venture capital platform, has lit a fire under the equity crowdfunding community — and it might…

SMS Assist Founder Mike Rothman Invests Big In Technori

Technori takes equity investment to launch Technori Co-op, a non-traditional startup incubator, focused on disrupting how startups are launched and funded.   DV Partners, led by SMS Assist Founder and Chairman Mike Rothman, today announced a seven figure investment in Chicago’s largest and most active startup platform, Technori. The funds will be used to expand…

Live Now: Technori Startup Showcase May 2018

Welcome to Chicago’s Startup Showcase, May 2018 Edition. All of today’s startups are currently running equity crowdfunding campaigns, which can invest in right now on Republic.co. 5:30 – Networking hour 6 p.m. – Keynote: Mark Achler 6:30 – Pitches Start Pitch Lineup: Jose V. Fernandez – Access Network Keith Frankel – Parlay Jay Sebben –…

The Startup Showcase Live

  Technori is where the world’s emerging startups come to showcase! We help startups gain traction by engaging with thousands of would-be investors, partners, and customers through our highly curated showcase events and media channels. Until now, starting and investing in companies has been reserved for only the wealthiest 3%. So, we’ve partnered with Republic to let anyone invest directly in the startups that…