April 9, 2014

  • Eastern Iowa startups find success at 9th annual Prometheus Awards

    Eastern Iowa startups find success at 9th annual Prometheus Awards

    Eastern Iowa startups stole the show at the Technology Association of Iowa’s ninth annual Prometheus Awards Wednesday evening in Des Moines. Higher Learning Technologies, Banno, ClusterFlunk and TelePharm all took home honors from the annual Iowa-focused awards. Coralville-based HLT won Best Mobile Application …

  • Dundee Venture Capital shares what it’s like to be a VC with 1MC crowd

    1 Million Cups was created to network and introduce entrepreneurs to other startups, but Omaha-Lincoln’s version continues to evolve, sharing others’ stories in the ecosystem. Beth Engel and Mark Hasebroock of Dundee Venture Capital presented Wednesday to a crowd of 40 at Mammel Hall on the campus of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. “The…

  • Neighbor.ly’s Jase Wilson wins Silicon Valley pitch competition

    Neighbor.ly is making good use of its temporary migration west. In late January, the KC-based civic startup joined the Tumml accelerator in San Francisco—wrapping up May 6. A couple weeks ago, CEO Jase Wilson jumped last-minute into Global Innovator Competition, a pitch contest at the Global Technology Symposium. He called it a gut decision to…

  • New investment fund, Nestmint, helps earliest stage Iowa startups

    A new investment fund called Nestmint, announced today, will bridge the gap from idea to proof of concept for some of Iowa’s earliest stage startups. Tej Dhawan and Mike Colwell, on behalf of the Greater Des Moines Partnership, will officially announce the fund Wednesday during the Technology Association of Iowa’s i2iowa. “This is not a grant…