Corporate Innovation

  • Columbia, Missouri-based StoryUP creates Healium…virtual escapes to quiet the mind

    Columbia, Missouri-based StoryUP creates Healium…virtual escapes to quiet the mind

    Sarah Hill, founder and CEO of StoryUP is building technology to help people cope more effectively and peacefully with stress in their lives. The company has developed the world’s first augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) platform powered by wearables that “listen” to user’s brainwaves and biometrics. Healium’s mindfulness platform is powered by the…

  • Midwest eSports puts the “sport” in video gaming

    Midwest eSports puts the “sport” in video gaming

    Video gaming has always been a fiercely competitive pastime. Those who are old enough surely remember hunkering down into a game after school and bickering with their siblings over the Atari joystick for a crack at Pitfall! or Frogger. (For those who are too young to have relished in the joy of the successful virtual…

  • TruckPark gears up to launch parking app for truck drivers

    TruckPark gears up to launch parking app for truck drivers

      TruckPark is set to launch its TruckPark App on Monday, May 6, bringing the company’s parking platform live to truck drivers over the road. TruckPark is a real-time inventory management and booking platform that connects truck drivers with safe and available parking along their routes. The company is based in Chicago, the nation’s third…

  • Dee Baird and the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce Break Down Regional Barriers to Investment

    Dee Baird and the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce Break Down Regional Barriers to Investment

    Dee Baird, Senior VP of Economic Development at the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, is working hard to dismantle regional barriers to economic investment.