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July 2025 – Site Selection

“… our rankings reveal the territories cultivating the most fertile environment for a sustainability-oriented economy, based on a unique index incorporating ... factors"

July 11, 2025 – CNBC

CNBC scored all 50 states on 135 metrics in 10 broad categories of competitiveness.

June 16, 2025 – Institutional Real Estate, Inc.

Oppidan Investment Co., a national property development firm headquartered in Excelsior, Minn., has broken ground on a 61,000 square-foot data center on Argenta Trail in Eagan, Minn, one of only two ground-up data center projects underway in Minnesota."

May 22, 2025 – Minne Inno

"… Based in Brooklyn Park, Fastwave is a clinical stage startup that is developing intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) systems to treat calcific arteries in both peripheral and coronary diseases …"

May 22, 2025 – Post Bulletin

"A shared lab to attract new and emerging medical research companies is being planned with up to $8 million in Destination Medical Center investment …"

May 15, 2025 – Minne Inno

"… Chanhassen-based Alpheus Medical Inc. announced the oversubscribed Series B financing round …"

May 3, 2025 – Post Bulletin

"Mayo Clinic geriatrician Dr. Christina Chen, the founder of the award-winning Hope Technologies startup company based in Rochester, is working on a way to improve the day-to-day lives of patients dealing with dementia …"

May 2, 2025 – Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal

"… The new 30,000-square-foot building aims to support entrepreneurs of color who seek to scale their existing businesses in sectors like technology, health, wellness and beauty."

January 10, 2025 – Twin Cities Business

"The Maple Grove-based company plans to use the money to fund a clinical trial and to hire more employees … The money will enable Francis Medical to expand its current staff of 40 employees to 71, largely for roles in research and development, sales, and marketing …"

February 20, 2025 – Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal

"Minnesota MedTech 3.0 (MMT3.0) and Dutch investor NLC Health Ventures have partnered to connect medical-technology startups and funding companies in America and the Netherlands …"

November 5, 2024 – Minne Inno

"… Alimetry, a New Zealand company whose U.S. headquarters is in Minneapolis, raised a round of $18 million led by Global from Day One, an investment firm also based in Auckland, New Zealand ..."

October 28, 2024 – Minnesota Inno

"… the company set in motion plans to more than double the size of its headquarters. HistoSonics is now ramping up its efforts to commercialize its devices and expand …"

October 25, 2024 – The Minnesota Star Tribune

"… Simpli-Fi Automation . . . licensed federal innovations intended for space exploration and deployed them in the health care realm ..."

October 24, 2024 – Star Tribune

"The renal care unit, Vantive, is in the process of being sold to Carlyle and becoming a standalone company."

October 14, 2024 – Minne Inno

"… The Brooklyn Park-based startup, which is using neurostimulation therapies to treat chronic migraine patients, said it will use the funding to support its clinical trials, gain premarket approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and for the initial commercial launch of its device …"

October 11, 2024 – St. Cloud Times

"The Sartell City Council entered into a 79-acre purchase agreement with Minneapolis-based Niron Magnetics to build a 150,000-square-foot manufacturing facility for the company's rare earth-free magnets. This move will likely bring more jobs and more revenue to Sartell."

October 8, 2024 – Finance & Commerce

"… the CloudHQ project could bring 75 to 100 new permanent jobs to the city, along with 1,000 construction jobs."

October 8, 2024 – GoBanking Rates

"Duluth is among the top 20 U.S. cities that are the least prone to natural disasters, including wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, extreme winter storms and high temperatures, droughts, earthquakes, and hailstorms."