March 27, 2012

  • Inaugural Midwest Entrepreneurship Conference coming Friday to UNO

    The inaugural Midwest Entrepreneurship Conference (MWEC), an event that aims to provide attendees with actionable items for growing businesses …

  • Kiene gives 33 reasons ‘you might be a Nebraska entrepreneur’ (Video)

    Continuing our coverage of this year’s Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship, the full video of Steve Kiene’s closing keynote at the Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship is now available (above). Kiene, the managing principal of the Lincoln-based software investment fund Nebraska Global, focused his 24-minute presentation on defining an entrepreneur, giving credit to farmers – who he…

  • Sojern announces $7.5m round, new investor Industry Ventures

    Sojern, a travel data and media company, today announced it has raised $7.5 million of additional funding, bringing total venture capital raised to date to about $32.5 million. …

  • Prairie Moves: Airport Life, eDossea, RecBob and more

    Published Tuesdays and Fridays, 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…

  • David Milligan of Advent IP to present Thursday night at Cornstalks

    David Milligan, founding partner of Advent IP and co-founder of Leap Ventures, will present at this month’s meeting of Cornstalks, which takes place at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at CAMP Coworking in the the Mastercraft Building (1111 N. 13th St.). More on Milligan, courtesy of the Advent IP website: David is a founding partner of Advent…

  • PrairieCast is off this week, but you can still catch last week’s show

    We’ll be taking this week off from PrairieCast because our producer is on a call to do his civic duty as a Polk County juror. But below you can find last week’s show with John Jackovin of BettrLife and Bawte and Sam Schill of Shoplr and Sigler Companies. PrairieCast is a live podcast, recorded weekly,…

  • With $1.5m from Nebraska Global and Nelnet, Roundscapes is now 42

    Roundscapes, a Lincoln technology startup and immersive media specialist, today announced it has relaunched as 42, a digital agency and software lab. As part of the relaunch, the company has closed a $1.5 million, multi-year round of funding from Lincoln-based firms Nelnet and Nebraska Global to scale development of a project working with augmented reality and next-generation…