Brad Keywell






Type: News
Date: 10,23,2019
Source: Michigan Ave Magazine

Chicago Ideas Week first debuted in 2011, when the organization (led by founder and chairman Brad Keywell) invited David Gregory.




Type: News
Date: 7,4,2019
Source: Irish Times

Most tech entrepreneurs might dream of ending up with their companies listing on the Nasdaq, but Brad Keywell isn’t sure it’s always the right call to make.




Type: News
Date: 6,10,2019
Source: Chicago Inno

Chicago tech veteran Brad Keywell just became the third U.S. founder to win the EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year award.




Type: News
Date: 6,8,2019
Source: Financial Times

Brad Keywell has been named the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year for 2019, marking a record third win for the US in the competition’s 19-year history.



Type: News
Date: 5,19,2019
Source: Business Insider

This successful CEO says his Sunday ritual keeps his employees more in tune and makes his week more productive.



Type: News
Date: 5,14,2019
Source: Business Insider

Uptake's mission: to create a world that always works. That's a pretty big ambition, but this Chicago-based SaaS start-up believes that AI and machine learning are the answer.



Type: News
Date: 12,4,2018
Source: Bloomberg

Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc will team up with U.S. artificial-intelligence specialist Uptake Technologies Inc. in a move aimed at improving the reliability of its aircraft engines.



Type: News
Date: 8,24,2018
Source: Crain’s Chicago

When you’re one of the three founders of Groupon, the company that energized Chicago’s tech scene, what do you do with the rest of your life?



Type: News
Date: 6,13,2018
Source: BuiltIn Chicago

Whether it’s teaching local kids to code or building applications to fight human trafficking, Chicago has no shortage of tech companies committed to giving back.



Type: News
Date: 5,22,2018
Source: CNBC

Machine learning is enabling all kinds of advances across a number of industries, including helping industrial equipment diagnose itself.



Type: News
Date: 4,16,2018
Source: CNBC

Machine learning startup Uptake is buying Asset Performance Technologies, which controls the world’s biggest database on why industrial equipment fails.



Type: News
Date: 2,21,2018
Source: Reuters

U.S. analytic software firm Uptake Technologies is set to announce it has hired one of General Electric Co's GE.N top digital executives.



Type: News
Date: 1,26,2018
Source: Washington Post

The U.S. Army is turning to a little-known tech start-up to automate the job of an equipment technician.



Type: News
Date: 1,12,2018
Source: Uptake

Report finds that the untapped energy of the current U.S. wind fleet is enough to power all of the homes in Chicago.



Type: News
Date: 1,12,2018
Source: Bloomberg

Operators of U.S. wind farms including Warren Buffett’s energy company are turning to technology designed to squeeze more power out of every turbine.



Type: News
Date: 1,2,2018
Source: VentureBeat

Uptake’s founders, Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky, are serial Chicago entrepreneurs who are best known for starting Groupon.



Type: News
Date: 11,20,2017
Source: Reuters

U.S. analytic software firm Uptake Technologies Inc said on Thursday it raised $117 million in venture funding, a deal that gave it a valuation of $2.3 billion.



Type: News
Date: 2017
Source: Modern Luxury

Men’s Book Chicago: Eternal Entrepreneur



Type: News
Date: 11,1,2017
Source: LinkedIn

Some of the most fascinating businesses today are startups.



Type: News
Date: 8,1,2017
Source: Fast Company

When Pentagram partner Eddie Opara began collaborating with the predictive analytics software company Uptake. 



Type: News
Date: 7,14,2017
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review

When we think about corporate philanthropy—the allocation of company resources for public benefit.



Type: News
Date: 7,11,2017
Source: Forbes

The world is moving online, and business is going with it.



Type: News
Date: 6,14,2017
Source: World Economic Forum

Billions of people and countless machines are connected to each other.



Type: News
Date: 6,14,2017
Source: World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum on Wednesday announced its 2017 class of Technology Pioneers.



Type: News
Date: 5,16,2017
Source: CNBC

Uptake Technologies, a data mining software company, has reached a $2 billion valuation in record time.



Type: News
Date: 5,15,2017
Source: CNBC

This Chicago-based company, co-founded in 2014 by Brad Keywell — one of the people who started Groupon — develops analytic software.



Type: News
Date: 3,2,2017
Source: Fortune

It’s been nearly two years since Fortune profiled entrepreneur Brad Keywell’s startup, Uptake Technologies.



Type: News
Date: 2017
Source: The Boss Files

Brad Keywell is the co-founder of Uptake Technologies, Lightbank, and Groupon, and has launched over a dozen companies.




Type: News
Date: 2,8,2017
Source: Pitchbook

A $2 billion valuation is plenty newsworthy on its own, but Uptake's $40 million financing last week caught our eye for a couple of reasons.




Type: News
Date: 1,14,2017
Source: Yahoo

We’ve compiled a list of exciting startups outside of New York and San Francisco. 




Type: News
Date: 1,21,2016
Source: Bloomberg

Uptake differs from other of Keywell’s co-founded start-ups in that he employs collaborative disruption.



Type: News
Date: 1,2,2016
Source: Inc.

Every successful business begins its life as an idea.



Type: News
Date: 3,5,2015
Source: Fortune

Brad Keywell is showing me around Chicago’s Cabrini-Green, a failed public-housing project in the heart of the country’s third-most-populous city.



Type: News
Date: 12,17,2015
Source: Forbes

This year's hottest startups list includes Uber, the world's largest private venture-backed startup. But Uber isn't ranked number one.



Type: News
Date: 10,27,2015
Source: New York TImes

The latest company to reach $1 billion or more in valuation upends the stereotype of such so-called unicorns.



Type: News
Date: 3,5,2015
Source: Chicago Tribune

Caterpillar, the sixth-largest public company in the Chicago region, and Brad Keywell, one of the city's wealthiest venture capitalists, are teaming up. 



Type: News
Date: 2015
Source: Chicago Tribune

Caterpillar, the sixth-largest public company in the Chicago region, and Brad Keywell, one of the city's wealthiest venture capitalists, are teaming up. 







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