Brad Keywell
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News
Reuters - Davos Today
Financial Times - AI software founder wins world entrepreneur award
Chicago Inno - Brad Keywell wins EY World Entrepreneur of the Year
Business Insider - Sunday ritual
Washington Post - Army to use artificial intelligence to predict which vehicles will break down
CNBC - Uptake named CNBC Disruptor 50 company
Crain’s Chicago - Life After Groupon
Bloomberg - Rolls-Royce Turns to AI in Bid to Boost Engine Reliability
Fortune - The race to the Internet of things
BNN Bloomberg - Groupon co-founder's new AI startup ramps up Canadian expansion
The Irish Times - Doing an IPO ‘can be fun’ but doesn’t always lead to the best result
Michigan Ave Magazine - 9 Inspiring Things We Heard at Chicago Ideas Week 2019
Chicago’s Business Today - Next Big Hit?
BuiltIn Chicago - How 4 Chicago Tech Companies Became Obsessed With Giving Back
CNBC - CNBC Disruptor 50: Uptake - Big Machines Break, But Maybe They Don't Have To
BNN Bloomberg - Groupon co-founder’s new AI startup ramps up Canadian expansion
LinkedIn - An Even Better Education: Learn How to Learn, Not Just What to Learn
CNBC - Tech start-up Uptake makes ‘big’ acquisition in race to digitize the industrial industry
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs - International Women’s Day: Tech Trailblazers For Social Good
LinkedIn - College Basketball Doesn’t Just Build Character, It Reveals Character
Reuters - General Electric digital executive jumps to analytics firm Uptake
Fox Business - Technology is a factor to make the world a better place: Uptake CEO
Bloomberg - Buffett’s Squeezing More Power Out of Wind With This Software
Uptake - Report finds that the untapped energy of the current U.S. wind fleet is enough to power all of the homes in Chicago
VentureBeat - 10 startups outside Silicon Valley to watch in 2018
Inc. - What to Do Before Facing That 1 Stressful Task
Reuters - U.S. startup Uptake valued at $2.3 billion in new funding round
Vanity Fair - CEO’s Try to Predict the Future in 10 Years
CNBC - Uptake CEO: Using predictive technology to deliver insights to the frontlines of industry
Modern Luxury - Men’s Book Chicago: Eternal Entrepreneur
Chicago Ideas - Life’s Big Questions with Ric Elias
Fox Business - Why robots won’t replace humans
Chicago Ideas- Edison Talks with Kumau Murray
Vanity Fair - Kara Swisher on “Weaponized” Social Media
LinkedIn - Top Companies Startups: The 50 industry disruptors you need to know now
World Economic Forum - The Fourth Industrial Revolution is about empowering people, not the rise of the machines
Crain’s - Tech 50 2018
The Boss Files - Brad Keywell with Poppy Harlow “The Ultimate Entrepreneur”
Chicago Ideas - Taking Risks, Building Business and Carving Your Own Path with Sam Zell
Inc. - If You Love Your Idea, Here’s Why You Need to Kill It
PitchBook - The 11 fastest US startups to a $2B valuation
Forbes - Meet The Hottest Companies In Cloud Computing For 2017
SquawkBox CNBC - Turning Data Into Action
Fast Company - Pentagram Visualizes The Devil
Stanford Social Innovation Review - Giving Your Genius: A New Approach to Corporate Philanthropy
Fortune - The Race to the Internet of Things
Bloomberg - Brad Keywell: We are Disrupting the Blind Spots
Medium - How Can You Be More Creative? Embrace Daily Rituals
Chicago Tribune - Uptake is Growing Fast, See How Their Office
Bloomberg - How Uptake Plans to Optimize Assets Around the World
Vanity Fair - New Establishment Summit: Can Silicon Valley Get Its Mojo Back?
C2 Montreal - Brad Keywell on Predicting the Future
World Economic Forum - Uptake Named Tech Pioneer by World Economic Forum
Medium - The Internet: Turning Lemons Into Lemonade
Chicago Ideas - Martine Rothblatt on How to Live a Curious, Questioning, Loving, Practical Life
Chicago Ideas - Creating Aggressively With Max Levchin
Chicago Ideas - Bryan Cranston Discusses the “Unknown”
CNBC - Why Warren Buffet is Betting On This Software Startup
Chicago Ideas - Connecting the Dots With Donna Karen
Medium - The Ultimate Entrepreneurial Risk: Student Debt
Cranbrook Kingswood - Commencement Speech
The Economist’s Innovation Forum - Creating Power Partnerships
Chicago Ideas - Rahm & Air Emanuel on Their Family, Careers
CNBC - Uptake Named #5 on CNBC Disruptor List
Medium - Best Advice: Change the Game
Chicago Ideas - The Lifelong Entrepreneur With Dan Gilbert
Chicago Ideas - Brad Keywell & Eric Lefkofksy on Powerful Potential
Medium - Make Love and Belief Interchangeable
Chicago Ideas - Reinventing Reinvention With Tim & Chris Vanderhook
Fortune - Exclusive: Berkshire Hathaway Energy Inks Deal with Data Crunching Startup
Medium - The Next Cinderella Story
Yahoo - 18 of the Hottest Under-the-Radar Startups to Watch in 2017
Medium - CIW Moments: Bing Gordon on Chicago and Digital Disruption
Medium - Creativity (and Finding Your Truth) at Chicago Ideas Week
Chicago Ideas - Fisher Stevens on the Heart of Filmmaking
NYT - Midwest Startup Achieves Rare $1 Billion Valuation
Chicago Ideas - Don Thompson on Building a Business
Chicago Ideas - Let’s Talk About Beauty With Elle Macpherson
Medium - In an Automated World, Human Connections Can Still Thrive
Forbes - How Uptake Beat Slack, Uber to Become 2015’s Hottest Startup
Chicago Ideas - How Brian Grazer Unlocks Genius Through Curiosity
Chicago Ideas - Conversation with a Tech Legend: Bing Gordon
Chicago Tribune - Caterpillar, Brad Keywell Take On the Internet of Things
Bloomberg - Buffet’s Squeezing More Power Out of Wind With This Software
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Awards
EY World Entrepreneur of the Year (2019)
Uptake recognized as a CNBC Disruptor 50 company (2019, 2018, 2017)
Forbes named Uptake as a Cloud 100 company (2019, 2018, 2017)
Forbes AI 50 recognizes Uptake
World Economic Forum names Uptake a Technology Pioneer
BuiltIn Chicago, Uptake Named #14 on "2019 Best Places to Work"
BloombergNEF names Uptake as a 2019 New Energy Pioneer
Uptake is a 2018 Fortune Best Places to Work in Chicago
SupplychainDive names Uptake the 2018 Innovator of the Year
Uptake is a Business Insider 2017 Hottest Startups to Watch
AmericanInno recognizes Uptake in Chicago Inno’s 10 Coolest Companies
BuiltIn Chicago names Uptake 2017 Startup of the Year
Uptake is Forbes Hottest Startup of 2015