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February 7, 2012

  • Prairie Moves: Tim Banks, Andrew Heuback, AgLocal and more

    Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…

  • Proxibid hires ‘pioneer’ Larry Latham for business development boost

    When Proxibid president Ryan Downs sat down for an interview with Silicon Prairie News in September, Downs highlighted two goals at the top of his company’s to-do list for the immediate future: growth of the marketplace and international expansion. With its latest hire, Proxibid appears to be backing up Downs’ talk. The Omaha-based real auction…

  • Legal Sonar uses social networks to help attorneys, clients find right fit

    During her time practicing law and in the years since, Diana Kander has come to believe that almost no amount of …

  • Watch live: PrairieCast at 2 p.m. with Mike Ferrari and Mike Colwell

    Join us live today at 2 p.m. for Episode 73 of PrairieCast. Our guests will be Mike Ferrari, co-founder of Social Money Systems, and Mike Colwell, director of the Business Innovation Zone. As you’d expect, we’ll cover the news (not rumors this time) that just broke about Dwolla’s investment round and also get the inside…

  • Dwolla raises $5m Series B round led by Union Square Ventures (Video)

    Dwolla, an online and mobile payments network based in Des Moines, announced today it raised $5 million in a series B round led by Union Square Ventures of New York, with participation from Village Ventures and Thrive Capital, also of New York, Artists & Instigators of West Conshohocken, Penn. (Marc Eckō’s venture innovation company) and…

  • Omaha Steaks senior VP, former TD Ameritrade COO invest in NY startup

    Two Omahans are among a list of investors named as participants in a $2.5 million Series A round by Artspace, an online marketplace for contemporary art. On Jan. 31, the New York-based startup sent out the announcement, naming 12 investors. Four of them are institutional investors and eight are individuals, including Todd Simon, senior …

  • Union Square Ventures leads $5m round in Dwolla; Marc Ecko, Paige Craig participate

    In January, Betabeat cited un-named sources to report that Dwolla had raised around $10 million in a Series B round led by Union Square Ventures of New York. Dwolla, a Des Moines-based pay online cash transfer startup, responded quickly but passively on Twitter with allusions to songs titled “Rumors.” Today …