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Hookline wants to transform the property management industry
Three years ago Zane Jones was managing apartments when he decided to take an IT innovation class at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. “[The class] wasn’t about coding or doing technology, it was more about figuring out the right things to build and being more creative,” said Zane Jones, founder and president of Hookline.…
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How Ulytic solves urban traffic problems in real time
Several years ago, the Ulytic team met each other at a mobile app competition that Microsoft was hosting at the University of Missouri. Since then, the team has rolled out an app and a platform. They have been concentrating on their current platform Ulytic for the last year. How Ulytic works Ulytic is an urban…
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Omnipointment helps busy college students get organized
For the Omnipointment team, everything started during a hackathon at Northwestern University in Chicago last November. “I was in Lincoln at the time and [Vinesh] was going to the hackathon, and he called me and told me, ‘We have to build this, it’s a really cool idea,’” said Brendan Batliner, co-founder, Omnipointment. “So I worked…
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6 questions with Omaha Startup Collaborative’s Erica Wassinger
Erica Wassinger is the Managing Director of the Omaha Startup Collaborative, a startup incubator and coworking space in downtown Omaha. On March 22 OSC and AIM celebrated the public opening of the newly renovated AIM Exchange building. Since then OSC has been heads down with some of the most promising companies in Omaha. SPN caught up with…
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Lyconic brings new technology to the security industry
The technology behind Omaha-based Lyconic has been in the works for nearly ten years. In 2003, Shea Degan, co-founder of Lyconic, started a private contract security company, Signal 88 Security, as a way to supplement his income. What started as a few extra security jobs, soon turned into more projects than Degan could handle. So,…
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Why did we join another startup accelerator?
Drive Spotter’s story began somewhere along the Interstate between Denver and Omaha in April of 2014, when my then-girlfriend and I nearly fell asleep while driving home from a conference in Colorado. After catching some rest, we spent the remainder of that near-fatal ride exploring what could be done to detect and prevent driver fatigue.…
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QA with Jeff Slobotski on Router Ventures’ first investments
Last fall SPN caught up with Jeff Slobotski, co-founder of Silicon Prairie News and founder of Router Ventures, a Midwest-focused venture capital fund. Now with a few investments in his portfolio, we decided to check in with Slobotski to see what he’s been learning lately. SPN: Tell us a bit about what’s happened with Router…
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MotoMetrix brings new technology to concussion detection
Preston Badeer remembers when he was a child trading football cards of his favorite players with his brother. And it makes him angry. “There were football players that I watched with my brothers growing up that are dead already because they went insane from the effects of concussions,” said Badeer, Interim CEO, MotoMetrix. “They got…
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How to grow your startup without killing your creativity
Creativity is the foundation of startup life. Without it you won’t build something valuable enough to overcome the momentum of the status quo. Creativity is required to build something awesome, that people will line up for to spend their hard earned money. However, to sustain creativity you have to build financial freedom into your startup. Financial…
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Rodeo Analytics brings new technology to the equine industry
After years of observing his wife compete in barrel racing, Alex Adams grew fond of the passion and hard work behind equine culture. “She was always looking for a way to improve her performance,” said Adams, founder and CEO of Rodeo Analytics. “She couldn’t find too much that would help her besides trainers and clinics.…