Article featured by Keystone Edge. The Rise of the Rest (ROTR) tour bus has pulled out of Central Pennsylvania and Steve Case, founder of AOL, is writing a personal check for $100,000 to a York startup. Device Events has developed a cloud-based software platform that provides information about the adverse effects associated with medical devices. Ben Franklin Technology [...]
Story featured on LancasterOnline. Steve Case ended his daylong tour of central Pennsylvania by making a $100,000 investment in Device Events, a York-based software company that tracks reported problems with medical devices. Then, with his Rise of the Rest tour headed for Ann Arbor, Michigan, the AOL co-founder said it’s up to everyone in central [...]
Story featured on LancasterOnline. A four-minute speech is potentially all that separates four Lancaster startups from a $100,000 investment from AOL co-founder Steve Case. So it’s an important four minutes. The Lancaster companies are among nine Central Pennsylvania finalists competing today for the investment as part of Case’s Rise of the Rest initiative, which seeks to [...]
Story published by VentureBeat If Steve Case has his way, the next generation of workers will know the Upper Midwest not as the Rust Belt, but as the Startup Belt. Today, former AOL cofounder Case kicked off the sixth iteration of his Rise of the Rest tour in the central Pennsylvania cities of Harrisburg, York, and Lancaster. [...]
Article featured on LancasterOnline. VIZpin designs and makes software and devices that turn smartphones into door and garage keys. VIZpin, which previously operated as ECKey, is moving this week from Manheim Township to a new headquarters at 355 E. Liberty St. The company, which has been around Lancaster since 2012, has attracted some significant backers, including [...]
Article featured as part of Grow PA on Technical.ly. Next month, eight startup companies from the Central Pennsylvania area will compete for a chance at $100,000 as part of the Rise of the Rest tour. AOL founder Steve Case started Rise of the Rest in an effort to find startups outside of traditional enclaves like New York City and Silicon [...]
Column featured in Lancaster Newspapers. In late June, Central Pennsylvania was announced as an October stop on the Rise of the Rest tour. This tour, led by AOL co-founder Steve Case and his teammate, J.D. Vance, elevates the importance of communities like Lancaster, York and Harrisburg to advance disruptive innovation and technology. Young companies that [...]
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Article featured in Keystone Edge. It isn’t every day that AOL founder Steve Case comes to town with money burning a hole in his pocket. But on October 10, Case and J.D. Vance, author of the best-selling 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, will ride into Central Pennsylvania on the sixth “Rise of the Rest” (ROTR) tour bus, looking to [...]
Steve Case spoke to Joshua Johnson on WAMU's 1A Venture capital is concentrated on the coasts. Most of the investment for new, high-tech businesses goes to Silicon Valley, New York or Boston. Steve Case wants to change that. As co-founder of AOL, Case (and countless free CDs mailed to homes) got the nation connected. Now he’s [...]
