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Prairie Moves: Newsy, Pikuzone, SelectOut and more
Published Tuesdays and Fridays, 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, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…
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Prairie Moves: Macy Koch, Blake Pinneke, Lake Surf Co. and more
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays (two days late this week), 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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Fast Company deems Dwolla, Zaarly among ‘Most Innovative Companies’
Fast Company, a magazine dedicated to reporting on “fast companies” and entrepreneurs, has released its annual “World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies” list to highlight organizations “whose innovations are having an impact across their industries and our culture.” Two startups with Silicon Prairie ties received a nod as a part of the ranking. Dwolla, based in…
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Dwolla’s Series B: Three things it means for Des Moines (Part 2)
On Thursday, I offered three reasons why I believe Dwolla chose Fred Wilson’s Union Square Ventures to lead its Series B round, which was announced on Tuesday. In this post, I look at how the Des Moines startup community could be affected by Dwolla’s milestone. 1. They’ll continue to ‘Dwolla in DSM’ Dwolla co-founder Ben…
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Dwolla’s Series B: Three things it means for Dwolla (Part 1)
As you may be aware, the anticipated and recently rumored Series B funding news broke this week for the good folks at Dwolla in Des Moines. This round totalled $5 million and was not only raised out-of-Iowa but out-of-Silicon Prairie, with money coming in from both coasts. As rumored, the round was led by New…
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Dwolla raises $5m Series B round led by Union Square Ventures (Video)
Dwolla, an online and mobile payments network based in Des Moines, announced today it raised $5 million in a series B round led by Union Square Ventures of New York, with participation from Village Ventures and Thrive Capital, also of New York, Artists & Instigators of West Conshohocken, Penn. (Marc Eckō’s venture innovation company) and…
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Union Square Ventures leads $5m round in Dwolla; Marc Ecko, Paige Craig participate
In January, Betabeat cited un-named sources to report that Dwolla had raised around $10 million in a Series B round led by Union Square Ventures of New York. Dwolla, a Des Moines-based pay online cash transfer startup, responded quickly but passively on Twitter with allusions to songs titled “Rumors.” Today …
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