Nebraska Global

  • Busy Beehive graduates to new space, looks ahead to “critical times”

    Beehive Industries is movin’ on up … to the fourth floor. The Lincoln company, now 18 months old, is growing up, in a sense; in May, it moved upstairs one floor in the Haymarket district …

  • EliteForm picks up powerful partners in push to redefine weight training

    Put techies and college football players on a team together and what do you get? When it’s two powerhouses like Nebraska Global and the Nebraska Cornhuskers — based just blocks from each other in Lincoln — you might be surprised by the possibilities. That tandem has teamed up to prevent concussions and brain injury, for…

  • Do not half-ask it

    In my role at Nebraska Global, I have the opportunity to see numerous early stage investment opportunities. One of the regular, recurring problems that occurs in deals that we review is entrepreneurs do not make an ask or they make a half-ask. A good ask has two parts: 1. My company is seeking X dollars.…

  • New Lincoln meetup group looks to take UX discussion a step further

    Kyle Murphy hopes something that started as a subject of casual conversation with colleagues and grew into an informal lunch group can eventually become a regular resource for UX designers in Lincoln and Omaha. Murphy (left), the vice president of user experience at Hudl, recently helped launch a UX Meetup in Lincoln. The group will…

  • 42’s CEO offers a peek at projects in the works for his startup (Video)

    Last week we explored the path that led Christopher Kingsley, the founder and CEO of 42, to his startup’s March relaunch, which was backed by $1.5 million in funding from Nebraska Global and Nelnet. Today, we’ll go more in depth with the company and learn about what makes it tick. “42 is the evolution of…

  • Big risks and roundabout route lead Christopher Kingsley to 42

    Christopher Kingsley remembers it well – the “aha” moment he experienced while sitting across the table from entrepreneurs pitching for funds. Kingsley is the co-founder and CEO of 42, the Lincoln-based digital agency and software lab formerly known as Roundscapes that in March announced its new identity and the completion of a $1.5 million round…

  • Kiene gives 33 reasons ‘you might be a Nebraska entrepreneur’ (Video)

    Continuing our coverage of this year’s Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship, the full video of Steve Kiene’s closing keynote at the Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship is now available (above). Kiene, the managing principal of the Lincoln-based software investment fund Nebraska Global, focused his 24-minute presentation on defining an entrepreneur, giving credit to farmers – who he…

  • Prairie Moves: Airport Life, eDossea, RecBob and more

    Published Tuesdays and Fridays, 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…

  • With $1.5m from Nebraska Global and Nelnet, Roundscapes is now 42

    Roundscapes, a Lincoln technology startup and immersive media specialist, today announced it has relaunched as 42, a digital agency and software lab. As part of the relaunch, the company has closed a $1.5 million, multi-year round of funding from Lincoln-based firms Nelnet and Nebraska Global to scale development of a project working with augmented reality and next-generation…

  • Kiene closes Summit with ‘You might be a Nebraska entrepreneur if…’

    “You might be a Nebraska entrepreneur if you believe in quality before quantity,” Steve Kiene (left) told the crowd during his closing keynote at last Friday’s Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship. In a style reminiscent of Jeff Foxworthy’s “You might be a redneck if…” routine, Kiene, the managing principal of the Lincoln-based software investment fund …