| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.05.2023 | Leading Wedding & Event Planning Platform PartySlate Announces Major Growth Milestones, HearstLab Investment | PartySlate's leadership team (left to right, top to bottom): Lauren Mandel, Chhavi Tiwari, Phil Brown, Cristofer Kowalsky, Marlee Somerman, Julie Novack, John Haro, Tali Landau-Ofer, and Colleen Mersman.
PartySlate's platform allows vendors... |
| 21.12.2022 | I charge $1,000 to help couples write their wedding vows. I've seen some magical and devastating moments. | Tanya Pushkine. Phil Van Nostrand
Tanya Pushkine is a wedding-vows writer and officiant who was inspired after her own wedding.
Her pricing starts at $995 for a consultation and help from conception to delivery of the vows.
She credits cold... |
| 28.02.2020 | Chicago Tech Raised At Least $63M in February | This is our roundup of Chicago tech and startup companies that received venture capital investments during the last month. If we missed one, let us know at info@chicagoinno.com.
To get funding updates in your inbox each day, sign up for the... |
| 21.02.2020 | Event-planning hub PartySlate raises $5.5 million | — PartySlate, one of the few Chicago venture-backed tech startups founded by a woman, raised another $5.5 million. The website for party planners, event professionals and their customers, launched in 2015, is in 14 cities, up from seven a y... |
| 31.01.2019 | VC Funding for Chicago Tech Tops $200M in January | This is our round up of Chicago tech and startup companies that received venture capital investments during the month of January. If we missed one, let us know at info@chicagoinno.com.
To get funding updates in your inbox each day, sign up ... |
| 23.01.2019 | PartySlate Scores $3M to Make Your Shindigs More Spectacular | — PartySlate, a Chicago tech company that gives consumers inspiration for their upcoming shindigs — and connects them with event professionals that can help make it happen — announced this week that it has raised a $3 million... |
| 29.06.2018 | June: Silicon Lakes, FactoryFix, and the Digital Transformation Summit | The legacy of cornfields and flyover states taints the national perception of the modern Midwest. It’s led the area to be overlooked and under-capitalized by investors who paper the coasts with venture dollars. |
| 08.03.2018 | Chicago’s strongest startup sector is online marketplaces
The foundations for today’s marketplace platforms
Success breeds success | As an investment leader in Chicago, I get asked about startup trends on a regular basis. Most often the question I’m asked is, “What is the strongest startup sector in Chicago?” |
| 08.03.2018 | Chicago’s strongest startup sector is online marketplaces like Groupon and OpenTable | As an investment leader in Chicago, I get asked about startup trends on a regular basis. Most often the question I’m asked is, “What is the strongest startup sector in Chicago?”
It’s a hard question because one of Chicago’s core advantages ... |
| 08.03.2018 | Chicago’s strongest startup sector is online marketplaces like Groupon and OpenTable | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
As an investment leader in Chicago, I get asked a... |
| 13.02.2018 | How Midwest tech organizations are working to increase the number of female founders in the region | How bad is the diversity in tech problem? Seriously bad. And seriously long-standing.
For almost 30 years, women have made up less than 10 percent of the entrepreneurial and venture capital market labor forces, while Hispanics hovered at 2 ... |
| 13.02.2018 | How Midwest tech organizations are working to increase the number of female founders in the region | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
How bad is the diversity in tech problem? Serious... |
| 13.02.2018 | Midwest tech organizations working to increase number of female founders | How bad is the diversity in tech problem? Seriously bad. And seriously long-standing. |
| 05.10.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, October 5 | LIFE SCIENCES $$$
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There’s been plenty of activity in the cancer immunotherapy space recently. In August, Gilead Sciences bought Kite Pharma... |
| 04.10.2017 | PartySlate Raises $1.9M; Closes $3M Seed Funding Round | Celebrity Event Planner Mindy Weiss and PartySlate Co-Founder Julie Roth Novak (PRNewsfoto/PartySlate)
PartySlate, a Chicago, IL-based digital platform for party hosts of all kinds to find inspiration, local venues and event professionals, ... |
| 22.08.2017 | Female founders in Chicago still struggle to secure funding | The well-documented gap in venture capital funding also exists in Chicago.
In the last five full years, Chicago startups with at least one woman founder never received more than 20 percent of the venture capital funding or deal flow in the ... |
| 22.08.2017 | Female founders in Chicago still struggle to secure funding | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The well-documented gap in venture capital fundin... |
| 14.08.2017 |
PartySlate Raises $3M For Event Showcase Site
| Los Angeles-based PartySlate, a new startup which lets event planners showcase venues, parties, and events they have hosted, has raised $3M in a funding round. The funding came from Jump Investors, Wavemaker Partners, and Halogen Ventures. ... |
| 27.05.2017 | Julie Novack of PartySlate on the $112 Billion Party Planning Industry | Julie Novack is the CEO and a cofounder of PartySlate, a startup building a two-sided platform that allows event professionals to share their work and party hosts to gain inspiration from it. Because everybody has to party every once in a w... |
| 17.03.2017 | How PartySlate Spotted an Opportunity and Transformed It into a Venture-Backed Business | |
| 01.03.2017 | The Top Chicago Startup Fundings in February | This is our feature where we recap the funding deals that went down last month. Want daily startup funding news, as well as personnel moves, new startup stories and more Chicago tech analysis? Sign up for our daily newsletter The Beat.
Upta... |
| 01.03.2017 | PartySlate Receives $1.6M |
CHICAGO, IL, PartySlate, an online platform to connect event providers with people looking to plan weddings, meetings and celebrations, has raised another $1.6 million.
>> Click here for more funding data on PartySlate
>> To... |
| 28.02.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, February 28 | BRB
Answer and solution: Term Sheet readers are aware that the private equity industry is increasingly facing an inventory problem – viable targets are too expensive, activist shareholders are forcing companies to do PE-style cost-cutting w... |
| 14.12.2016 | 17 Chicago Startups to Watch in 2017 | Now in its third year, it's safe to say none of Chicago Inno's previous Startups to Watch lists have included three founders who have all led companies to $1 billion+ exits.
As we've mentioned here before, Chicago's tech scene is doing some... |
| 08.08.2016 | Better with Age: Chicago’s Top Ten Startup Founders over 40 | The startup world is filled with stereotypes. Whether it's the casual dress or the unique office perks, every founder knows that people expect them to run their company in a particular way. But what if the stereotype pertains to founders th... |
| 09.03.2016 | A Comprehensive List of Women Founders In Chicago Tech | The tech and startup world has long been a boys club. Despite making up half the population and almost 60% of the labor force, women only account for 30% of the US tech industry.
And the number of female startup founders is even lower. Only... |
