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Dwolla raises $16.5m round led by Andreessen Horowitz, adds SF office
Des Moines-based Dwolla today announced it closed a $16.5 million Series C round led by Andreessen Horowitz, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based venture capital firm whose portfolio includes Airbnb, Pinterest and Stripe, another payments startup. Three of Dwolla’s previous investors, Village Ventures, Thrive Capital and Union Square Ventures, also participated …
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Dwolla sued by former Bitcoin exchange, issues statement
A rocky relationship that we wrote about July has reemerged today with news that TradeHill, a former online Bitcoin exchange based in San Francisco and Chile, on Monday filed a federal lawsuit against Dwolla, an online cash transfer startup based in Des Moines. The lawsuit lists nine complaints, including false advertising, breach of contract and…
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With casesmpl, Colwell and Flynn look to cure carrying headaches
Toting their electronics from appointment to appointment, Mike Colwell and Charise Flynn grew increasingly frustrated with the lack of a protective container for all their devices that was, well, simple. “While there are thousands of sleeves and countless …
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May GDMLI breakfast to focus on Des Moines’ Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
The Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute’s (GDMLI) quarterly Daybreak Leadership Breakfast series will be taking an in-depth look at the local entrepreneurial ecosystem when the group gathers at the Greater Des Moines Partnership Building (700 Locust) on May 19. The May breakfast, with the theme “Silicon Prairie: A Developing Entrepreneurial Ecosystem”, will feature a panel…
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Des Moines Partnership highlights Dwolla, city’s startup scene (Video)
The Greater Des Moines Partnership, an economic and community development organization serving Greater Des Moines, released its latest promotional video on YouTube. Clocking in at 1:37, the video features interviews with Dwolla co-founder and CEO Ben Milne as well as the startup’s COO, Charise Flynn. In addition to Dwolla…
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Photos from Prometheus Awards: Dwolla, Book Hatchery and more
The Technology Association of Iowa released photos today from last Thursday’s 2011 Prometheus Awards, the event which honors the top companies and individuals in technology from across the state in the last year. To see this year’s full list of winners, see our post: “Prometheus Awards recognize Iowa’s top tech companies.” The following are select…
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Prairie Moves: T8 Webware, The Foundary, PeggyBank & More
(Photo by Brad Folkens via Flickr) Published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post,…
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Charise Flynn steps out from behind the scenes in new role at Dwolla
One would think that with more than 100 programmers and tech entrepreneurs crammed into Cabaret in West Glen on Wednesday, March 2, all eyes would have been on the TVs showing Steve Jobs introducing the iPad 2. Instead, they were fixed on founder Ben Milne and the rest of the Dwolla team as the social…
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Prairie Moves: Andrew Peters, The Foundary, Sojern & more
(Photo by Mark Michaelis via Flickr) Published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post,…