Christian Renaud

  • Come celebrate the last three years in Des Moines with StartupCity

    Come celebrate the last three years in Des Moines with StartupCity

    For the last three years, StartupCity Des Moines has been a place for the central Iowa startup community to congregate and collaborate. Now, its organizers are calling the community together in the space one last time for a different purpose—to celebrate what’s been accomplished over the last three years…

  • Central Iowa’s ecosystem needs your help, input to decide what’s next

    Over the past few months, entrepreneurs, co-workers and local community leaders have gathered at StartupCity Des Moines to discuss the needs of the central Iowa startup community, particularly in regards to what will happen after StartupCity’s funding runs out at the end of September. Now StartupCity principals Christian Renaud and Tej Dhawan have compiled suggestions…

  • StartupCity Des Moines announces funding through end of Sept. 2014

    StartupCity Des Moines principal Christian Renaud announced today that the central Iowa incubator and co-working space is now completely funded for its third year, meaning it will operate through the end of September as per the incubator’s original business plan …

  • StartupCity Des Moines co-founder reflects on three years, next phase

    Two years after StartupCity Des Moines opened its doors, organizers are taking some time to reflect on the journey so far and what’s …

  • StartupCity welcomes residents, coworkers; now allows “part-timers”

    StartupCity Des Moines, an early stage tech startup incubator in its second year, announced today the addition of two Des Moines startups to its group of residents. PosterZen, a web-based tool to create and order custom posters, came on board in November and PhoneBank.org …

  • Kauffman paper details new Startup America model, highlights Iowa

    “If (Iowa) can do it, we can all do it,” Startup America Partnership CEO Scott Case says in a white paper released Thursday that examines the Startup American Partnership at the 18-month mark. The Kansas City, Mo.-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which provided funding for the Partnership’s launch in January 2011, published the paper, “The…

  • As one-year mark nears, StartupCity co-founders share progress, goals

    One year ago, Christian Renaud and Tej Dhawan were still pitching their plans for a tech startup incubator in downtown Des Moines. With stops at five public and private entities, including the Corporation for Economic Development, the City of Des Moines and the Greater Des Moines Partnership, the two secured $750,000 to launch StartupCity Des…

  • Incubator with StartupCity Des Moines ties comes to northwest Iowa

    Leann Jacobsen hopes establishing StartupCity Spencer, an incubator using the same name and approach of a Des Moines incubator, can put the northwest Iowa town of less than 12,000 people on the entrepreneurial map. “With the talented people that reside here …

  • What I learned in Boulder

    This week Tej Dhawan, Andy Stoll, Amanda Styron, and I trekked from Iowa to Boulder Colorado for the Startup America Partnership Regional Leaders Summit to represent StartupIowa. Over the two days, the SUAP team and our peer regions (states) were relentless in sharing best practices and programs that they have developed to build their entrepreneurial…

  • Iowa angel group forms with focus on Midwest

    The Business Innovation Zone announced Sunday the formation of the Plains Angels, an independent, nonprofit consortium of angel investors that plans to make investments in the areas of technology, agriculture and manufacturing. “We want to help (accredited) investors more efficiently access high-quality deal flow,” said Mike Colwell (far left), director of the Business Innovation Zone,…