2017 was a stellar year in our Columbus tech and startup ecosystem – let’s take a look back at some of our headlines
January
- Ohio State alumni follow dream with FUSIAN – The Lantern
- Blue Jackets partnership is 1st stadium deal for startup alcohol delivery – Columbus Business First
- CoverMyMeds’ sale for $1.1 billion touted as ‘seminal’ for central Ohio – Columbus Dispatch
- Ohio’s Transportation Research Center gets $45M to expand smart mobility testing
February
- The Shipyard Acquires Design Company “Stream Digital” To Deliver Data Driven Design Solutions
- PHOTOS: Idea Foundry’s second-floor innovation center opens for business and ‘mischief’ – Columbus Business First
- Fast-growing Central Ohio software maker Updox raises $11.2M – Columbus Business First
- Smart Columbus Program Aims to Raise $1 Billion in Local Resources by 2021 to turn Columbus, Ohio, into the epicenter of intelligent-transportation testing – Gov Tech
- Why Ohio Is The Best State In America To Launch A Start Up – Forbes
March
- Cbus’ BeeHex cooks up $1 million for 3D food printers that make pizzas
- For utility crews, new ARCOS Location Services technology maximizes work time
- Root Insurance Becomes The First Insurance Company to Offer Discounts To Drivers of Self-Driving Cars
- Prevedere Raises $10 Million in Series B Funding Led by Norwest Venture Partners
- Cars.com hopes Cbus startup @clarivoy proves worth for car shopping compared to Google – Columbus Business First
April
- Nationwide IT Wins Application Development Award
- How This Niche Retailer (Roll Bikes) Reinvented The Online Customer Experience, One Bike At A Time – Forbes
- Columbus to Pittsburgh in 18 minutes: The future of transportation
- Scaling Startups Cbus Style – Rev1 Impact Report – 1014 jobs created
- Congrats to OSU grad @gilbert – nominated for Geekwire Young Entrepreneur of Year
May
- A New Fintech Accelerator Emerges in Cbus (Fintech71), Backed by Ohio Industry Giants
- Technology Inclusion Summit Highlights Need for Diversity in the Workplace – Metropreneur
- How Columbus, Ohio parlayed $50 million into $500 million for a smart city transportation network
- Columbus Collaboratory Extends its Information Sharing, Analysis Capabilities Through Strategic Partnership with TruSTAR Intelligence Exchange Platform
- Columbus overtakes Indianapolis to become country’s 14th largest city – Columbus Business First
- Maker of ad-tech software for auto dealers set to more than double jobs in Columbus – Columbus Business First
June
- CincyTech, NCT Ventures Announce Investment in Data Inventions
- A record $470 million invested in 210 companies in Ohio – Check out the 2017 Ohio Venture report
- Columbus could be the next startup city – TechCrunch
- Ohio is Pumping Out Startups as if They Were Growing on Buckeyes
- Memory chip seller adding 40 jobs in Columbus – Columbus Business First
July
- Local Ohio Governments Focus on Cybersecurity After Attacks
- Why Midwesterners leave Silicon Valley and go home for better opportunities – Venture Beat
- BrewDog Recruits Local Entrepreneur Tanisha Robinson to Head U.S. Operations – Columbus Underground
- Fried chicken restaurant is dishing out second chances – Hot Chicken Takeover – USA Today
- CrossChx Partners with RightPatient® to Offer Cloud-Based Biometric Patient Identification Service
- Congrats to @BYBEapp from @LumosInnovation Class 1 that were accepted into @techstars Target.
- Downtown golf-cart ride service humming along under new city rule allowing micro-transit – Columbus Business First
August
- ScriptDrop delivers your prescriptions with pizzazz – TechCrunch
- 3Bar Biologics Secures $2M To Help Farmers Increase Crop Yields with Naturally Occurring Microbes
- New Facebook data center a boost to Ohio’s technology sector – $750 million investment in New Albany
- Nationwide to pump $100 million into insurance startups
- Ambassador Software Works offers a solution using predictive technology that analyzes patient needs
September
- PriorAuthNow Closes $3.6 Million in Funding from NCT Ventures and Detroit Venture Partners
- Fast 50: Here are Central Ohio’s fastest-growing companies for 2017 – Columbus Business First
- Columbus Gamemakers Aren’t Playing Around – Columbus CEO
- Edison Partners Leads $8M Series A Growth Investment in Columbus’ Signet Accel
- Technology: Meet Ohio’s first pizza-delivery robot – Columbus Monthly
- Nikola Labs raises another $2M, lands internet-of-things customers for its wireless power components – Columbus Business First
- Wiretap Keeps Social Networks Secure
- Central Ohio IT leadership program launched
October
- State Auto Labs Launches $25 Million Corporate Venture Fund to Drive Insurance Innovation
- Women in Digital opens first co-working space in Powell – Columbus Dispatch
- Data visualization startup founded by former investment banker Megan Kvamme raises $1M – Columbus Business First
- Yelp analysis dubs Columbus, Ohio the nation’s ‘hottest hipster market’ and our minds are blown – Venture Beat
- Ohio physicists among contributors to Nobel Prize-winning gravitational wave research – Columbus Dispatch
- Steve Case, J.D. Vance stop in Columbus during venture capital bus tour – Columbus Business First
- SafeChain awarded $100k by Steve Case
- An Alternate Universe of Shopping, in Ohio – NYTImes
- Columbus 2020: Columbus Collaboratory – Columbus CEO
- J.T. Barrett’s Fabulous Fourth Quarter Leads Ohio State to Comeback Victory Over Penn State
- Beam Dental raises $5.5M, teams with VSP to bundle in vision benefits – Columbus Business Fir
November
- Self-driving vehicles, SMART road technology being tested in Ohio
- Gazelles in the heartland – American entrepreneurship is flourishing, if you know where to look – Root featured – The Economist
- In Columbus smart city initiative, transportation takes the wheel – TechTarget
- Congrats to @WillLZell and Dr. Chi-Chih Chih Chen for winning the pitch competition at Global Cable Innovation in Hangzhous, China.
- Columbus fighter-jet mechanic’s company valued at $1.2M on Shark Tank – Columbus Business First
- Central Ohio Primary Care Physicians And Area Medicare Health Plans Partner Through COPC Senior Care Advantage To Launch New Population Health Management Model
- As Silicon Valley Gets ‘Crazy,’ Midwest Beckons Tech Investors – NY Times
December
- Students show off smart city commuter solution in D.C. – Transity
- Continental Office, Hopewell membership-workspace firm share Downtown digs – Columbus Dispatch
- Cultivate business incubator brought more than 100 jobs to Grove City in its first 18 months – Columbus Business First
- Columbus isn’t the next Silicon Valley and that’s just fine, experts say
- Columbus #startup @GhostWaveInc selected as one of the Top Automotive Startups at @LAAutoShow
- @columbusceomag profiles the companies driving #tech innovation in the Columbus Region
- Why Ohio healthcare startups saw a 206% funding increase in 2017 – VentureBeat
- CrossChx raises additional $5M as sales start to take off for health-care admin bot – Columbus Business First
- Cbus’ ParaGen Technologies Closes $4.1M Seed Funding Round
