Welcome
Get In
Dive right in and experience the tech community with a full introduction. Explore some of the monthly meet ups, where you can have a community of people who have the same interests and focus as you. Here, you can discover what it means to have startups, or learn some new programming language, or hack away until dawn. These groups can provide spaces of group learning and give a comfortable introduction into your new world of technology and innovation.
Meet Ups
- StartLouis - monthly tech meetup
- 1M Cups - weekly pitching and feedback meetup, Wednesdays at 9am at KETC
- 2nd Thursdays - monthly ITEN sponsored networking happy hour at the Tavern of Fine Arts
- St. Louis Game Developers Meetup
- Women Entrepreneurs of St. Louis (WEST)
- Start30 - general meetup for startups, tech, culture, art
- EO - Entrepreneur’s Organization - Peer networking for founders of later stage (e.g. not concept) startups.
- Application Developers Alliance
- Code Until Dawn - last Friday of the month, all night hacking session at LockerDome.
- List of St. Louis Tech Meetups on meetup.com
Other Resources
- Accelerate St. Louis - resource database and community calendar for the St. Louis startup scene.
- Startup Genome - free and open platform for collecting, curating and analyzing data about the local startup activity
- LaunchCode - helping St. Louis grow tech talent base through pair programming and group learning.
Get Educated
Continue to expand your skills as you pursue your tech interests. Various universities offer resources to help guide you along your path, and there are other groups full of workshops and courses for rising entrepreneurs who want to look into this field. Feel free to use this list of resources to reach out and expand your mind!
- Skandalaris Center (Washington University)
- Ken Harrington, Director
- Aimee Dunne-Zander, Outreach
- Stacy Pearson, Programs
- John Cook School of Business - Center for Entrepreneurship (St. Louis University)
- Jerry Katz, Professor
- Tim Hayden, Director
- Bob Virgil Center for Entrepreneurship (Harris-Stowe University)
- Shawni Jackson, Co-Director
- Innovative Technology Enterprises at UMSL
Get Connected
It's always a great idea to follow people involved in St. Louis' tech startup network. Following people will help give you connections to more opportunities and events, and these people can offer great advice and mentorship if needed. Friendly interaction and dialogue helps build the community together.
Note: By no means is this a ranked or complete list, but simply a small compilation of some of the leaders that move and shape the STL tech scene. Everyone is worthy of equal following and are all influential within the tech community.
Note: By no means is this a ranked or complete list, but simply a small compilation of some of the leaders that move and shape the STL tech scene. Everyone is worthy of equal following and are all influential within the tech community.
Local Media
- Techli - Edward Domain and Caryn Tomer
- St. Louis Business Journal - Brian Feldt
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch - David Nicklaus
- St. Louis Beacon - David Baugher
- St. Louis Egotist
- Hacker News (national) - y combinator started tech/geek news thread and forum
Get Out There
Want to try your hand at exploring the tech scene? Want to be surrounded by passionate, driven people with the same tech interests as yourself? Take a look at some of these events and places for you to explore what the STL tech community has to offer. With conferences to expand your way of thinking, or hackathons to compete against other teams to solve world problems, you'll find yourself immersed in a tech-oriented environment perfect for your growing interests.
Conferences and Hackathons
- St. Louis Startup Weekend - build a company in 54 hours. National movement of startup events.
- Product Camp - unconference for product people
- Strange Loop - Multi-disciplinary conference for technologists and big thinkers
- GlobalHack - St. Louis-based hackathon series.
- Civic Hackathon - local movement organized around National Day of Civic Hacking.
- InvestMidwest - venture capital forum
- Gateway to Innovation (G2i) - national IT conference
- StampedeCon - big data conference series
Get to Work
Let's get you started up with some of the new, rising tech companies. Experience work in the tech field first hand. See what new things are being innovated today. And if you need an open space to work and foster up some new ideas, take a look at our list of co-working spaces, incubators, and accelerators. You'll find places that are comfortable and fitting to offer up advice and support should you need it.
Scaling Tech Companies
Incubators, Co-Working Spaces, and Accelerators
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Get Funded
Looking for some venture capitals to invest and fund your startup? Here's a comprised list of some of the capital partners around STL that would be good to help give you that push needed to create that full-fledged business.
Growth Funding
Angel and Venture Capital Groups
- Cultivation Capital - pre-A round VC firm for tech and life sciences
- St. Louis Arch Angels - angel group investing in early-stage startups
- Billiken Angels - angel group connected to St. Louis University
- iSelect Fund - build-your-own private equity, personalized fund