February 15, 2012

  • VoterTide closes seed round, readies its ‘Google Alerts for social media’

    VoterTide, a social media monitoring and analysis app focused on politics, announced Tuesday that it closed a “significant seed round” led by Optimas Group, an Omaha investment company. Also participating in the round was Gordon Whitten, who was the Omaha startup’s first investor. Behind Optimas’ investment …

  • Prairie Portrait: Kyle Murphy of Hudl

    Bio: UNL computer engineering and Raikes School grad from Hutchinson, Kan. I’m a software tester turned designer and user experience manager. My mission is to make software work for people never the other way around. | Title: Hudl, VP – User Experience | Age: 26 | Residence: Lincoln, Neb. | Twitter: noluckmurphy.com | Twitter: @noluckmurphy…

  • ActiveGrade names advisory board, co-founder confirms $200k raise

    ActiveGrade, a startup established to help educators better track pupils’ development, has assembled a group of educators tasked with keeping a similarly watchful eye on the company’s own progress. Iowa City-based ActiveGrade last week unveiled a seven-member advisory board, which is made up of educators and teacher leaders from across the country. The group will…

  • Nebraska Angels help close Nitride Solutions Series A round at $2.5m

    The Nebraska Angels, a Lincoln, Neb.-based consortium of individual angel investors, have played a significant role in bringing the final portion of funds into a Series A round for Nitride Solutions, the company’s CEO, Jeremy Jones said in an email today. On Monday, Wichita, Kan.-based Nitride Solutions, a developer of next‐generation nitride substrates for LEDs,…

  • AgLocal chosen for minority-focused San Francisco accelerator NewME

    Add NewME to the list of noteworthy accelerators helping AgLocal ramp up to full speed. Earlier this month, we …

  • Stop, drop and crawl: Silicon Prairie News Job Crawl today, 5-8 p.m.

    Today from 5-8 p.m. more than 180 university students and recent graduates will pack The Mastercraft building (1111 N 13th St.) to network and learn more about the startup community at the Silicon Prairie News Startup Job Crawl. If you’re planning on attending the crawl, you can find a complete rundown of everything you’ll need…