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Pear Deck expands from Iowa City into Kansas City
Iowa City-based edtech startup Pear Deck is expanding its sales team into Kansas City this summer. The decision follows the hire of Nick De Buyl as VP of Sales, who was previously the Director of Sales for Netchemia, a Kansas City education startup which was acquired by PeopleAdmin out of Austin in February 2015. “I felt like…
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Omnipointment helps busy college students get organized
For the Omnipointment team, everything started during a hackathon at Northwestern University in Chicago last November. “I was in Lincoln at the time and [Vinesh] was going to the hackathon, and he called me and told me, ‘We have to build this, it’s a really cool idea,’” said Brendan Batliner, co-founder, Omnipointment. “So I worked…