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Top Grand Rapids Startups to Watch in 2022

StartupNation

Their high-end products and storefront come from a hand-cultivated culture, state of the art facilities and a sustainable growing practice. FirstIgnite is also a graduate of the Y Combinator startup accelerator (class of Summer ’21) and has raised a seed funding round. This year, the company raised $2.8 HealthBridge.

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PetHub’s Clemens is Leading Innovation in the Pet Tech Industry

Jason Malki

We launched the first networked database and QR-coded pet ID tags in the United States in 2010. Additionally, we faced initial challenges with the QR and Near Field Communication (NFC) technologies we were using for our products being too early for the time when we launched in 2010. What are your future plans for your startup?

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

. + This post unpacks offers an insiders’ view of some of the key strategic decisions that led to Techstars’ decline. ————– Techstars is – or was – one of the world’s best startup accelerator programs.