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  • Meet the 5 finalists for Investor of the Year

    Meet the 5 finalists for Investor of the Year

    As we get closer to the Silicon Prairie Awards, we still need you to help us determine which individuals and companies will take home these shiny golden analogs. We’ve compiled a few highlights from the massive number of nominations we received, so you can get to know the finalists a little bit better. Remember, you can…

  • Nebraska angel investment tax credit advances

    Nebraska angel investment tax credit advances

    Information gathered with the assistance of Invest Nebraska and research staff at UNL and UNO suggest that the credit is having the desired impact. Estimates indicate the direct and indirect creation of about 500 jobs with an average salary of over $60,000.

  • Des Moines’ Plains Angels invest nearly $2.5M in 2014

    Des Moines’ Plains Angels invest nearly $2.5M in 2014

    Plains Angels, a Des Moines-based angel investment group, announced this week that its members invested $2,425,000 in seven startup companies last year. The total marks their highest year yet since founding in 2012.

  • Building the Silicon Prairie: Where we go from here

    Building the Silicon Prairie: Where we go from here

    “As one of the few seed venture capital firms in the Silicon Prairie, Dundee Venture Capital has been lucky enough to see first-hand some of the incredible changes happening here the last several years, and to invest in many of the companies driving those changes. We are witnessing an era where the next Fortune 500s…

  • Popular Nebraska angel tax credit may increase $1 million this year

    Popular Nebraska angel tax credit may increase $1 million this year

    Nebraska State Senator John Stinner of Scottsbluff introduced a bill this session, LB 156, that would increase the amount of available angel investor tax credits from $3 million to $5 million per year. The Legislature’s Revenue Committee advanced LB 156 unanimously, but set the amount of available credits at $4 million.

  • Meet Nebraska Angels’ new 26-year-old executive director

    The Nebraska Angels, a six-year-old, 47-member consortium of individual angel investors, has hired former investment firm controller and financial analyst Laura Classen as its executive director, a post held the past two years by Randy Nitz. “With Laura’s experience as a controller, financial analyst and executive administrator, she brings a great background in helping run…

  • A little background on this “Form D” I’ve been hearing about

    (Guest post by Bart Dillashaw.) The topic of Form D filings has come up a few times in recent weeks in conversations with clients and in a few blog posts by folks like Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson of Foundry Group, so I thought this might be a topic worth providing a little more background…