Investment

  • Pegex raises round, helps waste management with software, and apparently loves dogs

    Pegex raises round, helps waste management with software, and apparently loves dogs

    Pegex, a Madison, Wisconsin based startup, has built a SaaS platform that provides waste management companies with business productivity tools that include a robust CRM, an automated quote engine, documents and data automation, workflow management, and other unique sets of templates and tools for their industry partners. But, in doing our research for this company,…

  • Omaha based Bot Image raises money on Start Engine

    Omaha based Bot Image raises money on Start Engine

    On the 8th of August, Bot Image filed paperwork with the SEC that they had received $355k in funds from outside investors. The company used Start Engine, a cloud funding website that has helped more than 275 companies raise more than $100mm in investments. Bot Image is an artificial intelligence software tool for accurately identifying…

  • C2FO raises another big round of capital

    C2FO raises another big round of capital

    Leawood, Kansas based C2FO raised $200 million last week from a variety of investors, including SoftBank. This fundraising caused the valuation of the company to move over $1B – making it a Silicon Prairie unicorn.[1] C2FO is a payment management platform that helps small businesses received payment on contracts on expedited terms. Essentially, small businesses…

  • Hudl acquires Wyscout

    Hudl acquires Wyscout

    In acquisition news, Hudl announced the purchase of Wyscout, an Italian based football (soccer) scouting company. The amount of the acquisition was not disclosed. In a previous round of financing, Wyscout raised $3mm on a convertible note at a $25mm pre-money valuation in 2014 (Crunchbase). In this April 2019 article in Forbes, Wyscout reportedly has…

  • BasicBlock secures $675k investment

    BasicBlock secures $675k investment

    BasicBlock, a Lincoln-based startup that facilitates transactions in the trucking industry, announced Monday that it had secured $675k in pre-seed financing from Global Financial Group (“GFG”).  GFG was joined in the financing by Jason Calacanis, Jenny Fielding, Invest Nebraska, and other angels. In May, Silicon Prairie News reported that BasicBlock had received outside funding (https://spnewsnjt.wpengine.com/2019/05/lincoln-based-basicblock-continues-expansion-and-evolution/). …

  • FanFood announces partnership with Samsung

    FanFood announces partnership with Samsung

    Last week, SPN had the chance to speak with Carson Goodale, founder, and CEO of FanFood. FanFood was originally formed in Iowa but the company has since moved to Chicago to pursue their business. FanFood is a mobile ordering and concessions management platform designed to improve the fan experience while streamlining the concessions management and…

  • Opportunity Hub (OHUB) is breaking down barriers for starting high growth businesses

    Opportunity Hub (OHUB) is breaking down barriers for starting high growth businesses

    On Friday, August 16th, the Opportunity Hub in Kansas City will be welcoming Keisha Knight Pulliam and Arian Simone (Fearless Fund), Brian Brackeen (Lightship Capital), and Candice Matthews Brackeen (NewMe and Hillman Accelerator) to Belger Crane Yard Studios at 6pm. This event is part of a series of events that takes place on the 3rd…

  • VetMeasure receives early funding from Ames Seed Fund

    VetMeasure receives early funding from Ames Seed Fund

    On August 7th, VetMeasure announced a $100k investment by the Ames Seed Fund. The investment will provide the necessary runway for the company to expand their animal health monitoring products. Vetmeasure is an Ames based creator of a “harness” that measures the health of an animal’s heart and other key health statistics. The harness can…

  • Medical company awarded major funding for Molybdenum-99 radioisotope production

    Medical company awarded major funding for Molybdenum-99 radioisotope production

    NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, LLC formerly of Madison, Wisconsin now headquartered in Beloit, is the recipient of a $15 million cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA). This funding on July 23rd, is part of ongoing support by the DOE/NNSA to establish a stable domestically produced non-uranium-based source of…

  • BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation – enticing graduates and companies to stay native to the state of Wisconsin

    BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation – enticing graduates and companies to stay native to the state of Wisconsin

    BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation, or “BrightStar”, celebrated their sixth anniversary in July of this year. The organization has come quite far since its founding. So, what do they do? BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation is an entity looking to fill the early-stage funding void by providing charitable foundations, corporations, and wealthy individuals with a vehicle to help fund…