Six Midwest startups raised funding in the week ending July 24, across Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin, led by Empirical Security's $25M in Chicago. (Dontree_M / shutterstock - altered by AI)

The Bloch Quantum Tech Hub raised nearly $55M across Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. Four projects aim to build a domestic quantum supply chain.

Voxel51's Brian Moore is building the Databricks of physical AI from Columbus, Ohio. How an open-source project became a $50M-backed infrastructure company.

Electric Outdoors founder Josef Hjelmaker built an off-grid energy startup in Michigan that raised $3M after a 24-year corporate career at Whirlpool and Thor Industries.

A road-trip diary from Black Tech Week 2026 in Cincinnati, Ohio — inside the biggest conference for black entrepreneurs in the country, and why it calls Cincy home.

German entrepreneurs from North Rhine-Westphalia toured Detroit, Lansing, and Chicago this week; an industrial past and startup scene that mirror the Midwest.

As GM runs 50 'cobots 'at its Detroit EV plant, Chicago's Automate 2026 previews the humanoid robots and AI heading for Midwest factory floors.

From Saline Township's contested Barn campus to tax-credit pauses in Ohio and Illinois, Midwest states are considering data center deals they once chased.

Fred Hoch of TechNexus in Chicago helped define the term SaaS — in his opinion AI is extending software, not killing it.

Cintrifuse Capital’s Ilana Habib on how being acquired didn’t pay her a dollar - and what startup employees should know about equity.