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The most innovative companies in economic development for 2025

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Some are working on reinvention: Huntsville , the Alabama town famous for its history with NASAs rocketry program, has remarketed itself as a music, arts, and cultural destination; while Hilliard , an Ohio city of less than 40,000 in the Columbus area, continues to build out infrastructure to incubate innovative startups.

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Blackbaud Headed to SXSWi 2011

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Charles Porch – Facebook – Charles Porch supports marketing partnerships for Facebook around public figures and non-profits. She regularly speaks at industry events on the importance engaging the public via the social web as well as the importance of Hispanic Outreach. Find her on Twitter – @claired.

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In its first funding in 7 years, profitable fintech Lower raises $100M Series A led by Accel

TechCrunch

Lower , an Ohio-based home finance platform, announced today it has raised $100 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel. The financing also marks the previously bootstrapped Lower’s first external round of funding in its seven-year history. Our history is maybe a little atypical of fintech companies today,” he told TechCrunch.

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Is Wall Street losing its tech enthusiasm?

TechCrunch

Over the past few months the IPO market made it plain that some public investors were willing to pay more for growth-focused technology shares than private investors. But if we valued it like the then-newly-public Lemonade, a related company, at the time, Hippo was priced inexpensively. The company was valued at $1.5 Market Notes.

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Accel closes on $3B across three funds as it ramps up global investing

TechCrunch

Indeed, as TechCrunch recently reported, Accel has a history of backing companies that were previously bootstrapped (and often profitable) -– the latest example being Lower , a Columbus, Ohio-based fintech, which just raised a $100 million Series A. UiPath’s IPO filing suggests robotic process automation is booming.

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3 lessons from Root’s IPO pricing

TechCrunch

For the Midwest, Ohio-based Root’s IPO is a win. The company follows Lemonade to the public markets, setting a strong valuation mark again for the neo-insurance startup market. Investors are betting that Root’s history of growth will continue. Doing some loose math, Root is worth around $6.8

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Loop launches out of stealth to make auto insurance more equitable

TechCrunch

Loop also pointed to Ohio-based Root Insurance as an example of how consumers are growing more comfortable with sharing location data. The car insurance startup went public in what many saw as a successful IPO for a midwestern high-growth tech company. Loop makes a gross commission on every policy it sells.

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