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Iowa Innovation Council helps increase startup investor tax credits
The Iowa Innovation Council is working to develop a funding mechanism that would help startups across the state, the Business Record reported last week. An amended Iowa statute will allow the state to issue up to $8 million in tax credits each year, a five percent increase, for investments made to the Iowa Innovation Fund—intended…
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Cyber-Anatomy lets med students swap cadavers for holograms
Iowa City-based Cyber-Anatomy, which creates interactive 3D anatomical models, recently partnered with zSpace, a holographic computing company from Sunnyvale, Calif., to create interactive, holographic images of human cadavers. “In this case, it was very exciting for a high-tech company from the Silicon Valley to reach out to an Iowa company because of the technology …
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Cedar Rapids’ Vault to partner with Geonetric for new location
Last week Vault announced that come spring 2014, its coworking and collaboration space will relocate to a new home. Just in time for the company’s second birthday celebration, the coworking space will partner with health care software company Geonetric to create a space for creatives and tech startups alike in Iowa’s Creative Corridor …
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Former Geek Squad lead developers release youth tournament mobile app
For more than 10 years, Rob Lynch and his brother, Tom, have operated their own software company, creating custom applications for existing businesses. But with their latest venture, TourneyMachine—a web-based application that helps manage and organize tournaments for youth sports—the pair is …