Startups

Rule One’s Hunter Browning on the future of e-discovery software [VIDEO]

Hunter Browning, co-founder of Rule One, sees how litigation costs have expanded with the increase in digital documents and data. The discovery phase of a case often requires the ability to examine millions of documents. “It’s made litigation so exorbitantly expensive,” said Browning. Rule One goes beyond simple keyword searching to bring artificial intelligence, conceptual analysis, and…

June 3, 2016
Why ScoreVision could be the next Hudl

The Omaha-based company gives high school and small college sports fans the Jumbotron experience. But it’s their cloud platform that’s really exciting. Veteran entrepreneurs Gordon Whitten, David Sutter, and Chad Bokowski founded ScoreVision in 2015 when they decided to tackle the problem of outdated scoreboards in high schools and colleges. “As an entrepreneur, you go where there’s an…

June 2, 2016
Video Fizz’s Laura Steward on the startup learning curve [VIDEO]

Launching the Video Fizz app has been a learning experience for founder and CEO Laura Steward. “We launched in both app stores in December—and then we had to fix some stuff,” said Steward. “When people start pounding on your app, you find out what needs to be fixed.” After a six-week stabilization project, they started their first big promotional…

June 1, 2016
Gear Supply Co. offers the ultimate subscription box for guitar lovers

The light bulb came on for Joshua Koterba in a parking lot outside a music store in Florida. Koterba is the CEO of Gear Supply Company, one of this year’s startups in the NMotion Accelerator program. He is also a guitar player who was getting frustrated by his favorite brick and mortar music store. “They…

May 31, 2016
Big Bang’s Jonathan Wagner on the Internet of Things [VIDEO]

Jonathan Wagner created Big Bang to facilitate real-time collaboration for IoT projects. “I was seeing that applications in general were moving toward real-time collaboration,” said Wagner. “That’s something that wasn’t possible a few years ago.” Wagner wants people to think about the Internet of Things revolution as much more than clever consumer products. Inexpensive sensors can…

May 27, 2016
MommyAssistant helps parents around the house

When MommyAssistant founder Stephanie Feltus and her husband had their first child they started to understand the old adage, “It takes a village.” During the first few weeks of bringing home their baby, Feltus was often asked when her mother was going to come stay with her. Feltus’ mom lived five hours away and had…

May 27, 2016
DivviMap wants to turn drone data into powerful insights

The drone economy is taking flight, but the data drones provide remain a challenge for farmers and contractors. Enter DivviMap, one of the startups in this year’s NMotion Accelerator cohort. Silicon Prairie News spoke with Sebastian Blandon, DivviMap CTO, about their solution to the problem of drone data. “Our founder and CEO, Justin Kyser, found huge gaps that drone companies have…

May 26, 2016
Rex Animal Health wants to be the primary platform for animal health data [VIDEO]

Amado Guloy, CEO of Rex Animal Health, is on a mission to bring the power of analytics to animal welfare. “We’re really making animal health and agriculture more data-driven,” said Guloy. The company is building an industry platform that can be used for a variety of purposes. Academic researchers, pharmaceutical companies, commodity traders, as well as…

May 25, 2016
Bulu goes on hiring spree to expand Bulu Marketplace

Bulu, Inc. is in the midst of a hiring spree as it develops its data analysis platform Bulu Insights into the Bulu Marketplace platform. In the last three weeks Bulu has hired on 7 new employees, reaching a team total (including Bulu Box, Bulu Marketplace, and the warehouse team) of 23. The hires include Matt…

May 24, 2016
Gazella Wifi wants to change the way you interact with public wifi

Eric Burns has always been a busy man. A business owner, a full-time employee, a serial entrepreneur–at one time he owned a bar and worked full time at Gallup, all while working on multiple side projects. “I really wanted to automate everything [at the bar]; payroll, inventory, everything,” said Burns. “There wasn’t an easy way…

May 20, 2016