Christian Renaud

  • Present.io launches, aims to provide meeting rewind for ‘TiVo generation’

    With Holiday TechBrew on Tuesday evening and the Dwolla Meetup on Thursday night, it’s safe to assume some in the Des Moines startup community slogged through early …

  • Q&A: Renaud on StartupIowa, a statewide initiative launching today

    StartupIowa, the eighth statewide “region” to join the Startup America Partnership, launches today in a closed event at Startup City Des Moines. Startup America …

  • Guest Post: Answering Scott Case’s challenge to the Silicon Prairie

    At Thinc Iowa in Des Moines last month, Scott Case, CEO of the Startup America Partnership and founding CTO of priceline.com, described the mission of the Startup America Partnership. Initiated by the White House but operating as an independent, private-sector entity, the Startup America Partnership is dedicated to growing more resources for entrepreneurs in the…

  • StartupCity Des Moines secures final funding, reveals location

    The region’s newest technology startup incubator is officially a go thanks to a 3-2 vote this morning by the Polk County Board of Supervisors to provide the final piece of financing. Polk County, which twice delayed the vote in recent weeks, is the fifth funding entity to back StartupCity Des Moines. They join the City…

  • Christian Renaud pitches Pitch & Grow (Video)

    It’s peak Pitch & Grow season in Iowa, and in a new video interview Christian Renaud, a member of the board for the Technology Association of Iowa — the organization that puts on Pitch & Grow — and a participant and panelist in the most recent Pitch & Grow, explains just what that means for…

  • StartupCity Des Moines secures $250k from state, nears opening

    First announced with a tweet this morning – “Thank you to the Iowa Department of Economic Development for your financial support vote today for StartupCity Des Moines” – and later confirmed by a press release, StartupCity Des Moines is one step closer …

  • Prairie Moves: Paul Haskell, TableNabbr, MysteryBall and more

    What is Prairie Moves? – Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post,…

  • Prairie Moves: Hasani Hunter, Ryan Velgersdyk, Grain & Mortar and more

    What is Prairie Moves? Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please…

  • Stork.ly delivers valuable experience for 9-year-old entrepreneur

    Between piano lessons, Mandarin classes and chess camp, 9-year-old Emma Renaud found time this summer to ask a follow-up question to the childhood curiosity of where babies come from. “My mom was putting away some baby bibs, and I asked how new parents got the essentials they needed for their baby,” Emma said in a…

  • Prairie Moves: Torsion Mobile, eDossea, Corey Spitzer and more

    Reminder – Prairie Moves is now a bi-weekly series. Learn more in our most recent Prairie Moves. Also, a good portion of the items below are stories we will either cover in the coming days or ones we’ll miss covering because we can’t get to all of them. If you’d like to help us increase…