Winners at Thursday’s Prometheus Awards took home the event’s signature torch replicas. Photo from the Technology Association of Iowa.
This is a guest post written by Jordan Lampe, director of communications for Dwolla. Des Moines-based Dwolla won Outstanding Startup Company of the Year on Thursday at the Technology Association of Iowa’s Prometheus Awards.
Since 2006, the Prometheus Awards have represented a year’s worth of hard work and innovation for Iowa’s tech elite, and Thursday night proved to be no different.
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Chock-full of some Iowa’s biggest names, like Pioneer, Principal and Iowa Health (heck, even governor Terry Branstad dropped by), the aerial- and carnival-themed event was yet another successful platform that displayed Iowa’s growing confidence in its own tech industry. Hosted by Frank Russell (formerly of GeoLearning), the light-hearted event highlighted numerous different awards that reflected some of Iowa’s most famous supporters and entrepreneurs. Among them were Steven Carter, who won the LWBJ Financial Investing in Iowa’s Future Award for his work with the Iowa State Research Park and the Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship, and Sunnie Richer of Doextra, who received the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Even more heartwarming was the local story of the Flying Monkeys, a group of six young girls competing in the final stages of LEGO’s National “Global Innovation Award” with their prosthetic invention to help young children write, draw and color. Spurred by an impromptu call for donations to raise money for the Flying Monkeys’ expenses during their trip to Carlsbad, Calif., Prometheus Award attendees scraped together over $2,300.
A complete list of this year’s Prometheus Award winners is below.
- Software Company of the Year (Small/Medium) – Submittal Exchange, LLC
- Software Company of the Year (Large/Enterprise) – WebFilings
- IT Service Provider of the Year – Alliance Technologies
- Health IT of the year Iowa Health Home Care
- Clean Technology Company of the Year – PowerFilm, Inc.
- Best User of Technology – GCommerce
- Innovation in Teaching – East Marshall High School
- CIO/CTO of the year – Jason Popillion, GCommerce
- CEO of the Year – Bruce Lehrman, Involta
- Student Innovation of the Year – Book Hatchery
- Breakout Company of the Year – BodyViz
- Life Sciences Company of the Year – Diamond V
- Outstanding StartUp Company of the Year – Dwolla
- Technology Company of the Year (Small/Medium) – Involta
- Technology Company of the Year (Large/Enterprise) – Diamond V
For more on this year’s Prometheus Awards, check out these stories:
- Dwolla blog: “Dwolla is Startup of the Year“
- Des Moines Register: “Ames, Des Moines, Waukee firms win tech awards“
- Des Moines Register: “Photo Gallery: Technology Iowa Prometheus Awards“
