Come kickoff our weekly Thursday Gathering, and connect with your community here at Venture Café St. Louis! We provide the space, complimentary beverages, and all the vibes for a socially engineered evening of improving the human condition through innovation. Join us!

A panel discussion and introduction to the StartUp ecosystem with empasis on early stage resources.

Office Hour with Mike LaBozzetta of Faro Law, LLC. Mike works with small businesses, startups, and entrepreneurs to address their transactional legal needs.

Anyone with a website or business presence online can benefit from search engine optimization (SEO), the process of helping search engines find and display your site in search results. Hosted by one of Google’s internal SEO experts, this workshop will give you a behind-the-scenes view into how Google approaches SEO for its own sites. You will learn practical strategies that you or your web development team can implement to help drive traffic from Google Search to your site.    

Conversations create ideas, ideas create innovation, and innovation creates wonder. Welcome to the Conversation Corner! By utilizing an established prompt, we hope to instill a goal-oriented approach to communication among community participants! This prompt can be something as simple as: What beverage selections is Venture Café missing?, to more complex and nuanced conversations such as: How can we work together to solve the growing, global climate crisis? This week’s exploration will be: What organizations or employee resource groups would you like to engage with at Venture Café St. Louis?

Come kickoff our weekly Thursday Gathering, and connect with your community here at Venture Café St. Louis! We provide the space, complimentary beverages, and all the vibes for a socially engineered evening of improving the human condition through innovation. Join us!

This session with Savvy Coders bootcamp is intended to discuss and share exploring education options as well as funding resources in order to reach your goals and discover “What’s Next?”.

Devon Moody-Graham, principal at CEOMom Empire, LLC, will be answering all your questions regarding International Business Resources.

The pandemic has turned our work lives upside down and has changed the way we view the world. Now is the opportunity to discover what will bring you more happiness and success in the future. Change does not happen overnight, but you can take steps now to heal and embrace the new normal. Start to put in daily practices, so you are ready for what lies ahead. Prioritize and focus with “intention-setting” so you are calling in what is highest good for you and the world. Ask for higher guidance. Plus, learn how to focus and push through with compassion by embracing an “Inner Power Mindset.”

Missouri is home to world-class medical research institutions. Researchers here are working hard to find treatments and cures for everything from Alzheimer’s Disease to cancer, from diabetes to rare disease, from autism to heart health. Our researchers are leading the way on COVID research, in the One Health space, and on the frontiers of genomics, and regenerative medicine. Join Missouri Cures Executive Director, Ellie Hayes, for an overview of the cutting-edge research happening right here in the Show-Me State and let’s discuss how our researchers are moving therapies and cures forward and what you can do to support their efforts.

Perfect ideas and top-tier skills coming together! Have you ever had an idea that you knew was amazing, but didn’t have the resources to execute? Or maybe you had a plethora of resources, but are in need some new, innovative ideas? Well, come place your particular need on the Give/Get Board! By utilizing this community tool, you can see what others are looking for – or needing – to get their ideas and projects off the ground, and assist each other in this process. Give a little, get a lot!

Come kickoff our weekly Thursday Gathering, and connect with your community here at Venture Café St. Louis! We provide the space, complimentary beverages, and all the vibes for a socially engineered evening of improving the human condition through innovation. Join us!

A radical and exciting revolution is breaking new ground across many frontiers of healthcare. Forward-thinking practices and practitioners working in the root-cause fields of Functional, Integrative, and Personalized Medicine are changing the landscape of success in chronic illnesses and the most complex conditions from thyroid disorders to cancer, and multiple sclerosis to mental illness. This session profiles MindBody Talent’s unique view into the patterns and trends driving innovations in how professionals, practices, patients, and caregivers are discovering novel game changers in managing the complexities of healthcare and wellness. 

Madison Smith, financial advisor with Edward Jones, will be answering all your questions regarding Financial Advising.

As more & more job activities become automated, soft skills, which cannot yet be replicated by machines, have become more important. In 2017, Deloitte also reported that “soft skill-intensive occupations will account for two-thirds of all jobs by 2030” and that hiring employees with more soft skills could increase revenue by more than $90,000. The importance of empathy & social-emotional skills cannot be overstated. Emotionally intelligent teams have a competitive advance & empathy is one of the most important skills to hire for.

The discussion will begin with a basic understanding of AI, dig deeper into the current state of AI, the developments in the field and how those developments introduce bias in the AI algorithms. The discussion will finally conclude with measures we can adopt to remove bias and make AI more beneficial for all thus moving from dystopian outcomes to utopian ones. 

Perfect ideas and top-tier skills coming together! Have you ever had an idea that you knew was amazing, but didn’t have the resources to execute? Or maybe you had a plethora of resources, but are in need some new, innovative ideas? Well, come place your particular need on the Give/Get Board! By utilizing this community tool, you can see what others are looking for – or needing – to get their ideas and projects off the ground, and assist each other in this process. Give a little, get a lot!

Happy Friday VenCafe Community! We hope you've been well, and are enjoying the great weather this weekend! This Thursday was a bit of a condensed programming but, still as impactful as the many we've had. We co-hosted a session with Venture Cafe Miami & Monterrey by the name of Winning At Equity Crowdfunding! This session was led by Michael Burtov, inventor, speaker & author of the Evergreen Startup! Which details his successes in utilizing a crowdfunding startup measure to lead businesses to become matured million dollar ventures!

Happy Juneteenth everyone! Being apart of the new team here at Venture Café means this was OUR first Juneteenth Celebration! We were very excited to throw this event and couldn't be happier in how it turned out! Most who know about Juneteenth know it is a very big celebration here in St. Louis and we wanted to help put a spotlight on those who were already doing such incredible work in their industries & in our community! It was a great event that showcased and highlighted several different areas in which Black Culture influenced and created! We had snacks, we had games, we had great sessions and & good times! So let's get into what you might've missed!

Happy Friday VenCaf community! We hope your weekend plans are full of sunshine and good weather! Incase you missed our gathering yesterday here are some highlights! This is from our Funding The Mission: Mistakes, Military Tech & Mobilization event! We had the pleasure of hearing from several different speakers and leaders in the community about how mistakes can create success in your future, how one can find avenues of funding from the Military and Government & how you can quickly mobilize to secure funding for your social venture!

Check out the gallery of Funding The Mission: Clients, Credits & Connections! Our monthly theme for June is Funding The Mission, an effort to provide resources, tools & knowledge to those looking to advance their mission-driven work! Check out some of the highlights from this past Gathering, and see how our attendees found pathways to fund their venture!

Check out the gallery of Cortex Innovation Community's 20th Anniversary Thursday Gathering! Cortex has been an integral ecosystem partner to the Greater St. Louis community, from encouraging new businesses and entrepreneurship to cultivating a community that is looking towards the evolution of St. Louis through innovation. Here are some of the highlights of an engaging and fruitful evening of the Cortex Innovation Community Celebration, from what the district has to offer to what it hopes to achieve moving forward.

Check out the gallery of our Leading The Way: Industry Innovation in St. Louis event! This gathering showcased different ways that St. Louis is on the cusp of breaking new ground in our community and how they are going about doing that. We heard from a few innovators who were all about charting new territory by either expanding our business to other "ventures" overseas, or by cultivating the hidden talent of industry leaders that might just need resource and empowerment to create something that will last a lifetime.