"The more we use AI, the more impressed I am with its accuracy and efficiency."

"This could allow people to stay in their homes longer as we're better able to predict where they might need support rails and things like that. It can prevent injury,"

According to Premier Strategy Consultants, 85% of AI investments are wasted, often due to a lack of strategic guidance. Small and medium-sized companies that don't have resources to build effective internal teams can outsource their AI needs to AI experts like Premier in the same way that companies use other professional services like accounting, human resources, and marketing

Meet your 2024 presenting companies

“We’ve seen this many times before. Take the horse and buggy, you don’t want to be the ones fighting against progress.”

Meet your 2024 planning committee

“I was able to tell our story to 100 people, in one night. It’s taken from April to October to connect with that same number of people.” Michael said.

We are delighted to highlight a few recent successes from 2023 presenting companies.

Join us for an exciting panel of entrepreneurs who have been in the shoes of our presenting companies before.

We are excited to open the discussion to strategic corporate investment at this year's event. Our first panel on April 13 is focused on trends in Midwest investing, including how geospatial is moving into other industries.

Let's find out how things have been going at InvestMidwest Alumni Pitchly

Check in with us on FastDemocracy since they presenting at InvestMidwest

Join us as we check in on InvestMidwest Alumni OxaluRx

Two successful companies, Artio Medical, and Euphrates Vascular have their roots in the entrepreneurial spirit and biochemistry background of Sean Morris. Morris started his career in the medical device industry through sales and eventually went on to become a serial entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder of Veniti, which was later acquired by Boston Scientific.

More than 250 companies have presented at InvestMidwest over the last 22 years. We are talking to these companies to learn how InvestMidwest has helped startups over the and to identify what organizations in our Midwest innovation ecosystems have helped these alumni along their individual pathways to commercialization in addition to InvestMidwest. We have begun our blog series with four ag innovation companies.