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  • Cedar Rapids company receives $150K from Iowa Seed Fund II

    Last week the Entrepreneurial Development Center (EDC) announced that the Iowa Seed Fund II made a $150,000 investment in iCONNECT, a marketplace for on-demand video interpretation services. Founded in 2012 and acquired in January by Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based URrelay Inc., iCONNECT plans to use the investment—as well as a Propel loan of $250,000 from the Iowa Innovation Acceleration…

  • Events: Cowtown to Boomtown, Innovation Conference and more

    This week, events on the Prairie make traction in the Iowa City/Cedar Rapids region with Cowtown to Boomtown. The two-day series includes the Entrepreneurial Development Center’s Networking Event on Tuesday and Startup Stories Breakfast, a keynote luncheon with Tom Chapman from the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, Startup Drinks and the …