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Ecomitize grows after $700,000 funding round
North Platte, Nebraska based tech company Ecomitize announced this month the expansion of their clientele and their number of employees after another successful round of fundraising. The e-commerce solution company founders Chris Blakely and Jacob North are Nebraska natives who set out with the goal to create the most powerful, flexible, complete end-to-end merchant solution in…
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Staffjoy makes employees and managers happy with automated scheduling
Two math geeks out of St. Louis bring a Midwest mindset to the Valley. Work scheduling is tricky. Throw in variables like shift preferences and business demands, and millions of results are possible, very few of which might be optimal, for employees, for the employer, and fewer still that are good for both. But for Philip…
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C2FO’s $40 million raise will go to global expansion [Updated]
The 2008 recession disrupted many industries in ways still being felt today. A Fairway, Kansas, company has seized this opportunity to create a marketplace for working capital with $5.4 billion in capital flow during Q2 2015. Prior to the Great Recession, suppliers found it a lot easier to obtain working capital from financial institutions at a reasonable…
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MetaCommunications closes $8 million in Series A, led by Next Level Ventures
MetaCommunications, an Iowa City-based software company, has announced they have raised $8 million at the close of their Series A, led by Next Level Ventures, a Des Moines based venture capital fund. MetaCommunications was founded in 1997 to provide workflow automation software for marketing and creative teams. Today their products include Workgroups DaVinci, Approval Manager and ProofMe. Some of…
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9 questions with Assortify’s Marcus Goedeker
Assortify is an ecommerce platform’s dream merchandiser. The algorithm, developed by Marcus Goedeker, Jacob Messerly and Jeremy Vlcan (all Hayneedle veterans), measures the effectiveness of a retailer’s product assortment by comparing it to their competitors and analyzing trends in the online marketplace. Assortify can then identify opportunities for new product assortment as well as provide…
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Volano’s Rod Smith and Don Stavneak: “Don’t undervalue your product”
In 2007, Rod Smith and Don Stavneak started Volano Solutions, a custom software development company. In 2012, they developed their first stand-alone product, Steelwool. They learned a lot from the experience. “One of the lessons we learned with Steelwool is that if you undervalue your product, people won’t see it for what it’s worth,” said…
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How Benaissance successfully navigated Obamacare
In fall of 2009, John Jenkins and Mark Waterstraat were anxiously watching the Affordable Care Act debate unfold, knowing it could potentially sink their company. Jenkins and Waterstraat had created Benaissance in 2006 around processing COBRA-compliant insurance payments for employers. (COBRA allows employees leaving a company to remain on their company’s health plan for a period of time.)…
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Seamster wants to make your content management effortless
Yaw Odame and Caity Klitz, co-founders of Seamster, knew they had to move to Lincoln, Nebraska, if they wanted to start a company. “We were talking about building this thing, and we kind of joked with our friends, ‘Hey, we should move [to Lincoln],’” said Odame. “Food doesn’t cost as much, and rent is really…
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The startup that grew from inside a 152-year-old Fortune 150 company
One of Nebraska’s newest software companies looks and sounds like a startup, and it tends to act like one. It’s got five young developer employees. Its products are mobile-based and innovative like a lot of startups. Its website looks like any other. The team practices lean principals. But there’s something inherently different about Valvora, a…