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GenoPalate recommends food choices based on customer’s genetic profiles
GenoPalate raised $357,065 in seed funding from Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation and other undisclosed investors on May 3, 2018. An undisclosed amount of convertible debt financing is included in the deal. The company, founded by Yi Zhang Ph.D and based in Brookfield, WI, has developed a genetic data analytics platform designed to analyze genetic, demographic…
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NMotion and Gener8tor announce new partnership
NMotion and Gener8tor have announced a new partnership federating the two early stage accelerators. Brian Ardinger, founder of NMotion, and Troy Vosseller, founder of Gener8tor, announced the partnership at NMotion’s sixth demo day held in Lincoln, Nebraska, (home to NMotion), on December 6th. Gener8tor is a GOLD-tier accelerator with operations in Minnesota, Madison, and Milwaukee,…
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Fetch Rewards closes $8 million deal
MADISON, WI – University of Wisconsin-Madison spinout Fetch Rewards, Inc. has raised $8 million in venture funding from undisclosed investors on November 29, 2018. The company plans to use the money for general corporate purposes. The company previously raised $9.56 million in August 2017, and $8.5 million in May 2015. Fetch Rewards, founded in 2013,…
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How your liberal arts degree is preparing you to become an innovator
A recent NPR report asked listeners to solve a riddle: Jane and Maggie are sisters and were born minutes apart from each other to the same mother, but they are not twins. How is this possible? The answer: because they’re triplets. The answer to the riddle is rather simple but for most people, it’s a…
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NMotion Demo Day will highlight 6 new startups breaking onto the Lincoln, Nebraska scene
The sixth cohort of the NMotion Accelerator will pitch their businesses at Demo Day on Thursday, December 6th from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. at the Rococo Theater in Lincoln. “It’s been really good,” said Christina Oldfather, Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship with the Lincoln Partnership for Economic Development and Interim Co-Managing Director for NMotion. “We’re…
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Allianz, Securian partnering with gener8tor to form OnRamp
Allianz, the €126 billion German insurance giant, and Securian Financial, the $5.1 billion financial services company, announced a partnership with the Wisconsin-based startup accelerator, gener8tor. This partnership will launch the OnRamp Insurance Accelerator in Minneapolis-St. Paul. OnRamp will provide five startups per year with $100,000 cash investment, office space, and support from gener8tor’s network of…
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8Qs with a Silicon Prairie Founder: Archna Sahay
Archna Sahay is an independent urban systems consultant based in Philadelphia. Currently, she is working in Milwaukee helping the local ecosystem connect, grow, and thrive. SPN met with her during her speaking engagements at Big Omaha and the Madwaukee series in Wisconsin in August. She is a nationally recognized speaker and innovation consultant known for…
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Follow-up report: State Expected Venture Values in the Midwest
Following the publication of our article on Tuesday regarding expected values in cities, Silicon Prairie News received multiple requests for more information. There were three primary questions regarding the data. The first question is where and how did you get this information. Silicon Prairie News and its partner organizations use Pitchbook and FormDs.com to identify…
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Why Silicon Prairie communities need to be thinking about where they should be, not just where others are
In doing the research for the Silicon Prairie Annual Report, slated for a November release, Chapman and Company noticed an interesting trend when comparing venture activity (as identified in Pitchbook) in the Midwest. As can be seen in the below graph (which includes Midwest communities that received venture investment in 2017), the order of investment…
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Wisconsin startup Dodles raised angel funding in September
Wisconsin-based social animation application company Dodle has raised $446,000 angel funding in a deal led by Bruce Hawley. Mike Sanders also participated in the round. The company has raised $2.75 million to date. The company was founded in 2014 by Craig Doriot and Patti Pirkey and has 18 employees. It is located in Combined Locks,…