Chicago Inno: mHUB launches accelerator for ‘hard-tech’ startups

Published on September 23, 2020

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Chicago’s manufacturing-tech innovation center mHUB is launching its first accelerator program for early-stage startups making physical tech products, IoT devices and other “hard-tech” equipment.

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