St. Louis' innovation district and tech efforts keep luring companies to town. Here's just a few recent announcements.
Foto.com opens its U.S. operation in St. Louis
Tim Bryant
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
10/16/14
Foto.com, a Belgian company that delivers digital photos, said today it has opened its American operation in St. Louis.
The company, based in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, said the facility at 3049 Chouteau Avenue provides a central location for printing and shipping its products nationwide.
“St. Louis was strategically chosen as our U.S. base for the strong influx of tech-based startups,” said Marisa Lather, a Foto.com marketing communications manager.
Foto.com said its 84,000-square-foot facility on Chouteau has the capacity to produce more than 3 million prints daily.
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Music Streaming Services Relocates To St. Louis
Posted on August 14, 2014
by Jacob Luecke
Seeking to access the region’s abundant software development talent and to take advantage of the low cost of living, internet radio company
StationDigital announced it has moved its corporate headquarters from Los Angeles to St. Louis.
“Moving our headquarters to St. Louis is an exciting chapter in the expansion and evolution of the company,” said Lou Rossi, Chairman of the Board and CEO of StationDigital, in a press release. “St. Louis provides companies like ours with a vibrant community, a low cost of living, and access to top-tier talent that will allow us to hire locally and build out a great team. We also wanted a centrally located building with signage rights in order to build our local branding image to further promote the company as a place to work and the best choice for music streaming.”
StationDigital’s users can stream music online and choose from a library of more than 20 million songs.
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Scottish technology firm opens St. Louis office
September 11, 2014
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
8:00 am • By David Nicklaus
MiiCard, an online identity verification firm, has decided to establish a permanent presence in St. Louis after participating in the SixThirty accelerator program last year.
The company also has hired Peter Esparrago, a veteran technology executive and a co-founder of Cultivation Capital, as its North America president.
Esparrago said he splits his time between a Clayton office and the T-Rex incubator downtown. He said miiCard already has six employees here and expects to hire more people with financial services and technology experience.
Esparrago, who has led several online security firms, said he will remain a general partner of Cultivation Capital, which is an investor in SixThirty.
MiiCard, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, was one of the first four companies selected for SixThirty, which invests $100,000 apiece in promising financial-services startups and brings them to St. Louis for four months of mentoring.
Two of those first four companies now have offices in St. Louis. Upside, an online investment platform, began hiring employees at T-Rex in January, and co-founder Juney Ham recently moved here from San Francisco.
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