Photo courtesy, CovWorx. Coffee shops were popular home bases for budding entrepreneurs before the pandemic. People like Adam Koehler, Austin Allison, and Matt Vorst launched their real estate platform Dotloop after countless meetings at a Panera Bread near the University of Cincinnati. After Zillow acquired DotLoop for $108 million in 2015, Koehler bought [...]

Photo by kryzhov for Shutterstock Forty-four percent of working parents spend five hours or more per week driving kids to and from school and activities, according to a report commissioned by HopSkipDrive. Add more kids and more activities, and the driving—including the stress from disrupting work to do it—can become unmanageable. Tom Gott, [...]

Image by By SFIO CRACHO for Shutterstock Friendly fraud—when a credit-card user disputes a legitimate charge—costs companies billions of dollars every year. And it’s on the rise as contactless delivery becomes more common. After all, how can you prove you delivered a pizza when your driver never even came face to face with [...]

CVG's TaskWatch, photo courtesy CVG. These days, you can’t miss the signs of growth at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG). Most notably, a 1.2-million-square-foot rental car facility is under construction, part of a three-year building program that also includes new roadways, new entrance and exit plazas, and a new main entrance. But CVG [...]

Patients, families, doctors, clinicians, and researchers all collaborating for better health care outcomes? This might have been impossible prior to the introduction of the internet, but a new learning health network (LHN) model is evolving and becoming more popular for many diseases and chronic conditions. Hive Networks is a technology software company whose sole purpose [...]

Cincinnati is one of the fastest-growing startup cities in the country, and Cintrifuse is on a mission to create the #1 startup hub in the Midwest. Through initiatives like StartupCincy, it's building connections and a community of startups and entrepreneurs to fuel a new economy. Cintrifuse is providing a robust ecosystem where innovators turn ideas [...]

Photo courtesy IncludeHealth Ohio-based IncludeHealth is a digital health and performance company delivering next-generation musculoskeletal care and training for people with and without disabilities. Flyover future spoke with CEO Ryan Eder about how his startup has evolved since its inception in 2009. What was your inspiration behind IncludeHealth? Eder: It all started through the lens [...]

Ryan Pflaum / CC BY-SA From the time it was incorporated as a city in 1819 until roughly the Civil War, Cincinnati was known as “Porkopolis,” as it led the nation in pork production due to easy access to water transportation. And since 1999, over 30,000 walkers and runners participate in the annual “Flying [...]

Dr. Sergey Gubanov, Senior Director of Operations – Molecular..Courtesy of Meridian Bioscience Inc. Meridian Bioscience Inc., located in Cincinnati, is an international producer and distributor of a range of diagnostic test kits. While Meridian doesn’t make a COVID-19 test kit, it is using its proprietary technologies to help those developing tests for COVID-19. [...]

Photo by argusfoto is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 Cincinnati has the best-rated hospitals in the nation, according to a new study. The study was published last week by Psy.D. Programs, a social community for clinical psychologists around the world. Cincinnati was the highest-ranked city in the study with an average rating of [...]

tilr, a Cincinnati-based startup that offers an automated hiring solution for the recruitment process, was named one of most promising startups in Cincinnati by VentureOhio. We ask tilr’s founder, Summer Crenshaw, a few questions: Can you tell us how the idea for the company came about? Crenshaw: tilr was an idea that formed after [...]

Fountain Square, Downtown Cincinnati: Ryan Pflaum [CC BY-SA 4.0] Cincinnati, start your engines! Innovation is taking center stage as the Queen City races into StartupCincy Week 2019. The third annual event, which kicked off on October 7 and runs through the 11th, is a celebration of Greater Cincinnati’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, spotlighting the “innovators, makers, [...]

Imagery Google, Maxar Technologies, Sandborn, U.S., USDA Farm Service Agency Map data Innovation districts have caught fire in recent years, with city leaders around the world recognizing their proven ability to revitalize economically depressed urban zones. Cincinnati, an early adopter of the innovation district model, just marked the 15th anniversary of its Uptown Innovation [...]

"Administering Flu Vaccine" by Government of Prince Edward Island is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 A Cincinnati biotech company, Blue Water Vaccines, has raised a whopping $7 million in seed funding to develop a universal flu vaccine. If that sounds like a lot of cash, here’s why: As everybody knows, getting a flu [...]