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Video: Cortex District Member GiftAMeal Celebrates...
The startup's app reaches 44 states and involves hundreds of businesses.
Video: Cirrito Brothers Launch Varro Life Sciences...
Cortex District Member Varro is developing innovative technologies that prevent the transmission of infectious diseases and detect a variety of airborne...
BioSTL President & CEO awarded 2025 St. Louis...
Rubin also serves as secretary on Cortex's board of directors.
Cortex District Member Moolec Featured in Article...
The company, which is focused on creating genetically modified plants that produce more and different proteins, relocated from Texas to lab space in the...
Video: Vicia Chef's Journey to James Beard Award...
The countdown is on for the James Beard Foundation Awards, to be announced June 16. This year, two St. Louis chefs are finalists -- including Jane Sacro...
Feature on Cortex District Member Wugen: Turning...
Dr. Matthew Cooper, Wugen Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, developed a breakthrough CAR T-cell therapy using donor cells to treat aggressive T-cell...
Cortex District Member BioSTL Leads Neuroscience...
BioSTL and Neuro360 submitted the grant proposal for innovation funding -- aiming to establish neuroscience product manufacturing in St. Louis.
Video: Cortex SQ1 Success with HEC
Video featuring Cortex's Square One Helping Entrepreneurs Launch Successful Startups in St. Louis
Cortex-Based Restaurant Vicia Lands at #2 on 2025...
The restaurant has been featured annually on the acclaimed Post-Dispatch list, since its opening in 2017.
Vicia Chef Receives James Beard Award Finalist...
Sacro Chatham, chef de cuisine for Cortex-based restaurant Vicia, is a finalist for the “Emerging Chef” category in this year's James Beard Awards.











