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enStratus Secures Series A VC Investment

3. November 2011

An SEC filing reported by MarketBrief has revealed that Minneapolis-based enStratus Networks has raised $3.5 million in venture capital. The total size of the round is $4.5 million, a reliable source told me, but the investor for the additional $1 million has not yet been announced. Founded in 2009, enStratus provides a cloud infrastructure management [...]

Cloud Providers Spread Their Reach Across Minnesota

1. November 2011

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And what better place to start than, uh, St. Cloud? Actually, the company I’m about to alert you to, Vaultas, is a data center company that’s based in nearby Alexandria, Minnesota. But it just announced plans to expand into the much larger St. Cloud market, increasing its footprint in Central Minnesota. Vaultas develops, owns, and [...]

#Minnedemo Turns Up the Heat in Downtown Minneapolis

7. October 2011

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Several hundred tech lovers crammed into Schulze Hall at the University of St. Thomas last night and challenged the air conditioning on another day of near-record highs in the state, for the latest edition of the quasi-quarterly Minnedemo event. Luckily, there was plenty of cold beer — thank you, sponsors — and a damn nice [...]

Scalable B2B Platform through Rocware

3. October 2011

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The Minnesota-based SaaS company Rocware has recently released an enhanced B2B platform offering, which allows businesses to create, connect, and intuitively maintain their expansive online product catalogs. This platform allows businesses to seamlessly connect to existing and prospective customers through private invitation, technology features found in traditional social media. This interconnectivity creates an instant conduit [...]

Workface Lands $900k in Venture Capital

26. July 2011

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We were delighted to see that friend of Minnov8, Lief Larson and crew, have landed $900k to accelerate their vision of delivering a platform to maximize sales force and customer service engagement for organizations. The Gang has used Workface’ profiles since the beginning and have watched this startup closely as they’ve continued to execute on [...]

Minnesota Cup Honors ‘High Quality’ Crop of Semifinalists

22. June 2011

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I stopped into a reception held last evening at the U of M’s Carlson School for this year’s group of semifinalists in the annual Minnesota Cup. It’s the seventh year of this business plan competition, which has gained broad support from our business community. I had a chance to interview cofounder Scott Litman, who talked [...]

George Reese on “The Cloud’s Shining Moment,” Four Days Later

25. April 2011

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(Note: This post first appeared earlier today on the writer’s personal blog, Tech~Surf~Blog.) The major Amazon Web Services outage that began this past Thursday morning was unlike anything before it. Countless AWS customers, big and small, went down, many for days. Surprisingly, other biggies like Netflix, SmugMug, and Twilio had little or no disruption. One [...]

Minnesota ‘Brand Storyteller’ Changes Name to Brandpoint

14. March 2011

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Hopkins-based ARAcontent, which has been a leader in content-based marketing solutions for more than 15 years, announced today it has changed its name to Brandpoint, underscoring the organization’s evolution from a provider of traditional PR brand storytelling into a comprehensive, content-based digital marketing platform. Brandpoint offers three core product channels, each enhanced by accurate, real-time [...]

Bloomington Firm Expects to Add 300 High-Tech Jobs

11. November 2010

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Twin Cities Business (TCB) magazine reported today that Polar Semiconductor Inc. (PSI) is planning to build a new facility, adding to its existing 200,000-square-foot facility in Bloomington, just East of the Mall of America on Old Shakopee Road. It cited documents recently filed with the City of Bloomington’s planning division. But the biggest news is [...]

In Its 24th Year, Venture Conference Asks If Minnesota Has ‘Lost It’

10. October 2010

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We’ll find out Thursday, because I’ll be there to live-blog it all: the proceedings of the annual Minnesota Venture & Finance Conference at the Minneapolis Convention Center, co-hosted as always by the Minnesota Venture Capital Association and The Collaborative. The blue-suit crowd will turn out once more to hash over where, oh, where is venture [...]

Archive | Emerging MN Companies RSS feed for this section

enStratus Secures Series A VC Investment

Cloud Providers Spread Their Reach Across Minnesota

#Minnedemo Turns Up the Heat in Downtown Minneapolis

Scalable B2B Platform through Rocware

Workface Lands $900k in Venture Capital

Minnesota Cup Honors ‘High Quality’ Crop of Semifinalists

George Reese on “The Cloud’s Shining Moment,” Four Days Later

Minnesota ‘Brand Storyteller’ Changes Name to Brandpoint

Bloomington Firm Expects to Add 300 High-Tech Jobs

In Its 24th Year, Venture Conference Asks If Minnesota Has ‘Lost It’

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