Oklahoma City

The Oklahoma City Council recently gave approval for an Austin, Texas-based robotics manufacturer to continue its quest to seek funding from an OKC business incentive program to expand its operations to Oklahoma City and serve both commercial and military customers more efficiently and effectively throughout the state and region, including Tinker Air Force

Work has begun on the exciting Convergence development in the Innovation District, and hopes are high that it will contribute to not only the physical fabric of the area but also help create connections between different industry sectors in ways that will spur even more innovation and entrepreneurship. Read the entire story on VeloCityOKC.com.

With 7.7% of businesses in Oklahoma owned by veterans, including 8.5% of businesses in the OKC metro area, the state ranked No. 6 in veteran-owned businesses according to recent data from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Census Bureau. Read the entire story on VeloCityOKC.com.

For the second consecutive year, Oklahoma City has been selected as USA Today’s number one city for street art. The site put together a panel of experts and in-house editors to determine a top 20 list of nominee cities. Then, the public was allowed to voice support for their favorite city through a four-week voting period to determine the final

A program designed to help stimulate individuals in the heartland of America to begin thinking more like entrepreneurs in order to help solve everyday problems within their communities recently celebrated its first cohort of “builders” in Oklahoma City and has now started its second, summer cohort to generate even more innovative ideas. The

Chamber members, Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) and Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), were granted $5.5 million from Presbyterian Health Foundation (PHF) for medical research. The multi-million-dollar funding fulfills 100 percent of the 81 research grants requested by OUHSC and OMRF during the summer grant cycle. Read the entire

“The vision is not only to bring the world to Oklahoma City, but to bring Oklahoma City to the world.” That’s what Christian Kanady, a founding partner of Echo Investment Capital, said drives his teams’ focus to connect the Oklahoma City venture capital and entrepreneurial ecosystem with global talent, ideas and resources. And

Oklahoma City is known for many things, but anyone who’s a sports fan knows one of them is the “Softball Capital of the World,” a fitting moniker for the headquarters of USA Softball, the national governing body of softball in the United States, and the site of the USA Softball Hall of Fame Complex.College softball’s best will hit