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Glint acquired by LinkedIn for $400 million
Glint is a California-based company that provides employment information to employers that sets off multiple workflows based on AI. For example, this information, pulled from a survey regarding their employees’ job satisfaction, allows employers to identify and target engagement with teams and groups that may be struggling. The company has more that 300 customers worldwide…
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Allianz, Securian partnering with gener8tor to form OnRamp
Allianz, the €126 billion German insurance giant, and Securian Financial, the $5.1 billion financial services company, announced a partnership with the Wisconsin-based startup accelerator, gener8tor. This partnership will launch the OnRamp Insurance Accelerator in Minneapolis-St. Paul. OnRamp will provide five startups per year with $100,000 cash investment, office space, and support from gener8tor’s network of…
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Lightgliders aims to inspire hope and purpose through fun and games
Zach Fay and his sister Julie McWilliams are the startup founders of Kingdom Scene, which launched Lightgliders in 2014. Their idea was to utilize digital games and activities as a way to engage kids and impart biblical principles. The St. Louis-based company has created a digital game world and online community for kids that is…
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Minneapolis based Travel Labs joins Beta.MN and raises $500K
Minneapolis-based Travel Labs joins Beta.MN and raises $500,000. Travel Labs is the creator of an artificial intelligence platform intended to make business travel easier. They are also the creator of a travel application called Tempore, which helps provide business travelers with a reimagined experience. Travel Labs is intended to mimic the role of an executive…
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Provider Pool seeks to connect healthcare professionals with healthcare facilities at a lower cost
Janna Westbrook, Tiffany Davis, and Terry Williams are three nurses who decided to create a solution to decrease staffing costs for healthcare facilities. The entrepreneurs quit their jobs and started Provider Pool in August 2018. Silicon Prairie News met with Ms. Westbrook at the tech incubator, T-REX, where the three co-founders have been building their…
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Buildertrend and others to be honored on Nov. 15 at Omaha-area Tech Celebration
Omaha-based Buildertrend will be honored at the 2018 AIM Tech Celebration as the Exemplary High-Growth Business of the year. The Exemplary High-Growth Business award recognizes a startup or small business for their outstanding application of technology including criteria such as facilitating groundbreaking ideas or implementations, an innovative product/project deployment, or providing an outstanding return on…
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Transportant raises $1 million to keep kids safe
Transportant describes itself as a pupil transportation management company based in the Kansas City area. The company raised just north of $1 million over the course of the last nine months from a variety of sources including Missouri Technology. Pupil transportation is a clever way to describe getting kids to school (or other activities) on…
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Why Silicon Prairie News is making noise about acquisitions
The Silicon Prairie startup ecosystem needs to do a better job of promoting itself and acknowledging success when it happens. Silicon Prairie News exists to be a voice that promotes startups and makes people aware of exciting news. Over the last decade, we have missed more stories than we have covered. But we’re not alone…
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Sioux City Launch Week begins today
Sioux City Launch Week kicks off today with a wide range of events aimed toward engaging northwest Iowa’s entrepreneurial community and building a strong entrepreneurial ecosystem. Launch week is organized by Iowa’s West Coast Initiative, led by the economic development organizations in Plymouth, Monona and Woodbury counties, which are working together to increase entrepreneurial activity…
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Kauffman provides a grant to the Startup Champions Network
The Startup Champions Network, a national organization of entrepreneurial ecosystem builders with a strong Silicon Prairie presence, announced on October 29 that it received a planning grant from the Kansas City, Missouri-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. An entrepreneurial ecosystem builder is a person who helps facilitate the multi-faceted creation and improvement of the components of…