Omaha

  • NCR acquires Omaha-based D3 Banking

    NCR acquires Omaha-based D3 Banking

    Omaha-based D3 Banking has become a leading financial technology solution for large banks. The company has built a broad-ranging platform that allows its customers to build both customized solutions and piggy-back on existing toolsets.

  • Flywheel’s New Owner: About WP Engine

    Flywheel’s New Owner: About WP Engine

    Flywheel is an Omaha-based startup that has helped designers create, build, host, and manage WordPress sites. The deal was described as the largest of its type in the WordPress industry in a press release by the acquiring company – WP Engine.

  • WP Engine to acquire Omaha-based Flywheel

    WP Engine to acquire Omaha-based Flywheel

    The acquisition, the largest to date in the WordPress industry, enables WP Engine to now power more than 120,000 brands and agencies in 150 countries across seven offices globally.

  • Bunker Labs Launches Omaha Chapter Helping Veterans Become Entrepreneurs

    Bunker Labs Launches Omaha Chapter Helping Veterans Become Entrepreneurs

    About 25 percent of military service members transitioning back to civilian life want to start a business. Only about 4.5 percent of them do. Valerie Rivera wants to change that. “Many times, veterans are serving with other veterans, so they don’t get exposed to a lot of people who are running their own businesses, and…

  • Your guide to the Heartland’s 1 Million Cups events

    Your guide to the Heartland’s 1 Million Cups events

    1 Million Cups was developed in Kansas City, MO in 2012 by Co-Founders Cameron Cushman and Nate Olson who were working at the time on the Entrepreneurship Team at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.  What began as an experiment to bring entrepreneurs in one city together over a cup of coffee towards a goal of…

  • Omaha-based Centese shakes up post-operative surgical drainage technology

    Omaha-based Centese shakes up post-operative surgical drainage technology

    The company’s product Thoraguard automates post-surgical chest tube management in order to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs.

  • Omaha’s Watts co-working space focuses on community and powering innovation

    Omaha’s Watts co-working space focuses on community and powering innovation

    “We’re searching for the outliers––the people who think outside the box,” said Brandon Peterson, co-founder of co-working space Watts. Peterson and co-founder Dallas Polivka are both Lincoln natives, but they’ve invested themselves in their futures in growing Omaha’s community. Both entrepreneurs and founders, the pair launched Watts earlier in 2019 with a vision to create…

  • SmartBiz Omaha Showcases Cutting-Edge Community Tech

    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.

  • 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.  

  • Lincoln’s gWorks acquires Omaha-based Data Technologies, Inc

    Lincoln’s gWorks acquires Omaha-based Data Technologies, Inc

    Watching a local government official struggle with paper maps and deeds in 1999 illustrated a pain point that led to the founding of Lincoln’s gWorks (formerly GIS Workshop). Now gWorks has acquired Omaha-based Data Technologies, Inc. The result is a company that will operate under the gWorks brand and provide a comprehensive suite of software…