MetroStart: Recent Episodes
Alan Grosheider
Cornbread Hemp’s Website In the last MetroStart podcast, we talked to Cornbread Hemp’s Jim Higdon about their ongoing equity crowdfunding round. This week, we talk to Jim again about how they knocked it out of the park – nailing an oversubscribed $107,000 round in just 17 days! Listen to the podcast to learn how they […]
Cornbread Hemp’s Website Louisville’s Cornbread Hemp just scored a local fundraising first. They’re the first company to receive Render Capital’s $20,000 investment in their WeFunder Match Fund. They’re also the first local company to raise funds using Regulation CF equity crowdfunding through WeFunder, one of the nation’s top equity crowdfunding portals. Equity crowdfunding is the […]
Did you know that almost all investment returns are now private? If you don’t invest early, you don’t make any money. If you’re going to invest in a tech company like Uber, you MUST invest while the company is still private or long before the company is sold. A few years ago, Andreessen Horowitz, […]
Steven Plappert and two co-founders, Andrew Busa and Chris Pierce, started an online fantasy sports company in 2013 called FantasyHub. The company saw early promise and growth, moved to Austin, TX to join the TechStars accelerator program, and even attracted $1.1 million in investments. However, due to issues in the industry as a whole, FantasyHub […]
People often cite healthcare as an area of expertise that may help propel Louisville, KY to greater startup and business prominence in the United States, and Dr. Angelique Johnson is helping us make that happen. She holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and in computer engineering, a masters in electrical engineering, and a PhD in electrical […]
After years of working in the corporate world, Mo Sloan saw a need. Online ordering systems that were available to restaurants had a glaring problem. They do not integrate with the restaurant’s current point-of-sale systems. This causes many restaurants to forego offering any sort of online ordering, even though the demand is very high. Mo […]
What single Louisville company is part of the same fraternity as Airbnb and Dropbox? It’s a company called WeatherCheck, and they now are an alumnus of the prestigious Silicon Valley accelerator Y-Combinator. They’re the first and only Y-Combinator company to date from Kentucky! Demetrius Gray, Founder of WeatherCheck, and Co-Founder Jermaine Watkins recently returned from […]
Since the very beginning, MetroStart (formerly Metro Startup Launcher) has worked to make it easier for startup companies in our area to raise capital and get started. With a lot of trial and error, we believe we have figured out a much easier way for startups to raise capital. The same method allows investors […]
Patrick Henshaw came to Louisville about 4 months ago to lead the Louisville Entrepreneurship Acceleration Partnership (LEAP) as CEO. If you’re part of our entrepreneurial community, you’ve probably seen him speak at an event or two. You’ve probably heard some of his vision for the local startup world. However, he probably hasn’t had time to […]
Rebah Wheeling was a successful insurance claims adjuster. One emotional day while meeting with a hurricane victim lead to the founding of her fast growing local company – Schedule It. In this podcast, Rebah talks about the emotional moment that lead her to start her company. Her description of the process of building her company […]