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TechNexus is a jewel of Chicago tech, and has been key to helping us create a rich and vibrant cloud computing community here. It's a great place to collaborate with other tech leaders.

TechNexus is an incubator where real tech companies are growing and thoughtful tech leaders are gathered, and those interactions have been critical to Cohesive's success.

102 companies have grown with TechNexus since 2007. They've raised $45.5m in capital and created more than 300 jobs We're just getting started.
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Collaboration and NetworkingMore than 2,500 peers in the Chicago Clubhouse each month. |
Communal CampusDesks, lounges and meeting rooms for seed and early stage ventures and entrepreneurs. |
Incubation and Start-up SpaceDozens of companies-in-residence from 1 to 15 people. |
Network of AdvisorsDozens of carefully partnered mentors, investors and advisors. |
Workshops and LearningTech talks, training and user groups meet here daily. |
Innovation LabsCorporate spin-outs and spin-ins, university collaboration, hackathons; innovation happens here! |
While some high-tech companies got their start in garages, a new crop of business founders, including Nick Miller of Baltimore, is giving fresh meaning to the term "garage entrepreneur."
Forbes announced TechNexus has joined the list of the top incubators in America.
Excelerate Labs and TechNexus were named among the nation's top 10 startup incubators by Forbes magazine.
It’s no surprise to us that TechNexus was named to the Forbes list of Top 10 Incubators in America. After all, Chicago Tech Academy was one of the startups incubated there! We were so privileged to have been profiled, as well, by Forbes in the new article, “Gunshots to Google: Teaching Entrepreneurship to Chicago’s Inner City.”
TechNexus joins Forbes list, which evaluates incubators on member companies’ venture financing, success rate and other metrics.