Midwest Moxie
Airs Sundays at 7 p.m.
Hear about the successes, failures, insights and opportunities that shape some of the Midwest’s most exciting entrepreneurs. Host Kathleen Gallagher, executive director of 5 Lakes Institute, talks with company founders who are taking risks, disrupting the status quo and driving economic growth in the region.
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Jacob Babcock and his team are helping to free us from cords and make wireless charging more prevalent.
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Monika Roots is a child psychiatrist who has co-founded two telehealth startups.
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Cory Scott stumbled into a pitch contest and emerged with first place, a pre-paying customer and the beginnings of LiveBy.
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Chris Goode leaned on 30 years of work experience in weather to start his company, Climavision, which raised $100 million out of the gate to improve weather forecast speed and accuracy.
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Amy Brown quit her high-level executive job to start her own venture that helps companies to improve customer relationships and profitability.
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After focusing on scalability and profitability Ben Schmidt's Pittsburg-based Roadbotics, which provides image analysis of road infrastructure, was acquired by Michelin in 2022.
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After founding four companies, including Ann Arbor-based Accuri Cytometers, which was acquired in 2010 for $205 million, Jen Baird is now she's helping other young startups grow.
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Dr. Garry Cooper started with research lab materials but has grown Chicago-based Rheaply's digital resource exchange platform to find next uses for industrial and IT equipment, building materials, furniture and more.
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Sankalp Arora figured out while in graduate school at Carnegie Mellon how to make robots curious.
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Danny Ellis and Kurt Heikkinen know first-hand how difficult, and ultimately rewarding, a startup can be.