Jack Perry

  • Syncbak releases redesigned app with support for iPad

    A little more than a year after unveiling its internet television platform, Syncbak this week completed the release of its mobile app’s second version (above). The app, which streams content in television markets where broadcasters have implemented Syncbak’s technology, boasts a redesigned user interface and added features. Users of the app can now see which…

  • Here’s to the world-changers. The unreasonable ones. The visionaries.

    Our most recent Sunday Video Series post came out a bit late and you might have missed it. It’s a three-minute video featuring Steve Blank, a noted entrepreneur, author and professor, in which he’s asked, “What’s a startup?” He answers the question by giving the differences between a startup and a small business. Blank notes…

  • At CES, Syncbak unveils its internet television solution

    Before Syncbak made its Consumer Electronics Show (CES) debut, the startup was already generating industry buzz. “But the dark-horse candidate for most disruptive new technology,” a Fast Company blogger wrote in anticipation of CES, which takes place this week, “may come from a small company, Syncbak.” Syncbak, which is based in Marion, Iowa, and has…

  • Prairie Moves: Sam Wilken, Local Hero Design, Locusic and more

    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 email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…

  • Jack Perry gives C-SPAN a Syncbak overview

    When the Consumer Electronics Association held its CES On the Hill trade show in Washington, D.C. in May, Syncbak founder and CEO Jack Perry attended in hopes of spreading the word about his Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based startup. He ended up doing so to a national television audience via C-SPAN. Syncbak, which provides a platform for…

  • Syncbak closes Series B round, bringing total funding to $5.6 million

    Syncbak announced Monday that it has closed a $4 million Series B finance round, bringing total capital raised to $5.6 million. New and existing investors in the Marion, Iowa-based company include …