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Sphere Consulting, a global custom software development company, was thrilled to be a sponsor of MidVenturesLAUNCH, the largest startup and innovation conference in the Midwest on September, 27-28. Two days of startup and entrepreneurship programming presented 12 workshops on different topics (GreenTech, Health 2.0/HealthTech, Biotech/Life Sciences, Gov 2.0/OpenGov, Education, Social Media, Social Gaming, Agile Development, Biz/Legal, Financial and Mobile) and the main event with keynotes, panels, and over 150 startups competing for funding.

On the second conference day hundreds of companies showcased the most innovative apps and products and competed for getting the prize worth over $150,000 in cash and services from our sponsors.

Sphere Consulting was happy to sponsor the event and support the cutting edge tech ideas. Sphere's CEO, Leon Ginsburg, was a member of Startup Advisor committee. Mr. Ginsburg took the floor in front of the audience at the Awards ceremony and announced that Sphere Consulting supports entrepreneurship and grants the Winner of MidVenturesLAUNCH, Evan Kimbrell's Airstash, the prize of $5000 in services.

"It's been a mixture of fun, great energy & hard work for everyone involved in the event, from entrepreneurs to judges and, as we expected, the quality level had been outstanding! We know how much time and effort goes into these contests and we continue to be inspired by entrepreneurial ambition", says Leon Ginsburg. Over 150 seed-stage and VC-backed companies demoed and launched web, mobile, consumer, and greentech products and services on MidVenturesLAUNCH main stage and around 3,000 people explored the future of Midwest technology.

Speakers and panelists included: Brad Keywell, founder/director of Groupon; Chuck Templeton, founder of OpenTable; Sam Yagan, founder/CEO of OKCupid, SparkNotes and eDonkey; and Jim Dugan, Principal at OCA Ventures.

MidVenturesLAUNCH was attended by numerous Chicago-based venture capitalists, including Baird Capital, Intellectual Ventures, Red Rocket VC, OCA Ventures, New World Ventures and the Illinois Venture Capital Association.