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Omaha’s Retail Aware partners with Chicago’s Home Chef to deploy network of sensors to better measure consumer behavior
Omaha ad-tech company Retail Aware has announced a new venture in partnership with Home Chef—the Chicago-based meal kit and food delivery business—to deploy its network of sensor devices in up to 2,000 Kroger stores nationwide. The move should allow Kroger – which owns the Home Chef brand – more granular control over its in-store shopper […]
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Retail Aware shows no signs of slowing growth despite pandemic
Keith Fix, co-founder and CEO of Retail Aware, learned to code during a brief stay with his mother at a homeless shelter. The 10-year-old aspiring entrepreneur’s parents had recently separated, and young Fix needed money for clothes and the after school programs he wanted to attend. A family friend needed a website built. Fix convinced […]
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Retail Aware raises early stage round
Retail Aware has announced the completion of an early stage funding round – receiving dollars from both angel and strategic investors. Retail Aware is a developer of business intelligence software and hardware designed to help brands maximize every opportunity in the aisles. The company collects data intelligence through its patent pending micro sensors. These sensors […]
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Retail Aware wins $10,000 prize at Get Started Omaha
Cox Business and Inc. Magazine hosted the fifth Get Started Omaha on Thursday, September 20, at the Holland Performing Arts Center in Downtown Omaha. Local startups pitched their business ideas for a chance to win a $10,000 prize package. Founders from each of five pre-selected Omaha-metro based startups had two and one-half minutes to pitch […]
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Keith Fix Announces RetailAware at The Innovators
Enter your email below to watch the entire interview Keith Fix announced his new company, RetailAware during the Pipeline Entrepreneur Innovators Awards. Brian Lee from Silicon Prairie News caught up with Fix to find out more about RetailAware. “The new company was kind of a spinoff of what we were previously doing in […]
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The Startup Job Mixer is coming to Lincoln
The next Nebraska Startup Job Mixer is happening on Friday, Nov. 3 at the Nebraska Innovation Campus in Lincoln. Jobseekers will have the chance to connect with more than 20 startups that are actively hiring.
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Prairie Roots run deep: new virtual conference grows connections in the entrepreneurial ecosystem
Last Friday marked the first-ever Prairie Roots Spring Show, a virtual event showcasing a variety of companies, creative projects and causes in that have survived—and in some cases, thrived—in the Midwest despite a tumultuous year. Created and curated by Scott Henderson, managing director of Lincoln-based NMotion Accelerator Studio for gener8tor, Prairie Roots gathered 100 business, […]
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Looking back, looking forward: The tech startup community’s predictions for 2021
It’s been a wild year. A pandemic has squeezed the global economy while also spurring innovation and unique tech-based solutions. Silicon Prairie News reached out to entrepreneurs, investors, business leaders and government officials across Nebraska to get their take on 2020 and see what trends they think we will see in 2021. Answers below are […]
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Virtual awards ceremony a first for Omaha’s tech community
Last night, members of Omaha’s tech and startup communities attended the first-ever virtual version of the AIM Tech Awards, a celebration of local innovators and changemakers in the technology sector. A prerecorded ceremony streamed on a virtual stage, accompanied by a live chat constantly scrolling with affirmations, congratulations and commentary from attendees. Traditionally held in […]
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SmartBiz Omaha Showcases Cutting-Edge Community Tech
Multiple demonstration stations were set up around the Greater Omaha Chamber office to allow attendees to experience the developments firsthand.