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  • EyeVerify raises $1.4 million from Think Big Ventures, angel groups

    EyeVerify has closed a $1.4 million seed round, Toby Rush, the startup’s founder and CEO, said Thursday. Think Big Ventures, a Kansas City, Mo.-based venture fund, led the round with an investment of $250,000. The Nebraska Angels and Mid-America Angels also contributed, as did numerous individual investors. As we reported in February, Lenexa, Kan.-based EyeVerify…

  • Prairie Moves: Abby Rowling, Lodo Software, FrontFlip 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…

  • 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,…

  • Nebraska Angels help close Nitride Solutions Series A round at $2.5m

    The Nebraska Angels, a Lincoln, Neb.-based consortium of individual angel investors, have played a significant role in bringing the final portion of funds into a Series A round for Nitride Solutions, the company’s CEO, Jeremy Jones said in an email today. On Monday, Wichita, Kan.-based Nitride Solutions, a developer of next‐generation nitride substrates for LEDs,…

  • New Nebraska Angels head Dillashaw seeks more members, deals in 2012

    The new president of the Nebraska Angels has two goals for 2012: “More members and more deals.” Bart Dillashaw, a Lincoln attorney, succeeded Nebraska Angels founder John Brasch in October as the second president in the organization’s history. Dillashaw has been interested in technology and startups since attending college in Texas during the ’90s dot-com…

  • Prairie Moves: Clay Wiese, Mike Roeder, Kaimi and more

    With our inaugural Thinc Iowa in the books, our staff time is freed up for some serious content production. Take this Prairie Moves, for example, it’s two weeks worth of goodness – links to funding news, product announcements, media mentions and more. Each time I open my Google Reader to grab the latest headlines from…

  • Nitride Solutions raising capital to fund unique Kansas startup

    A Kansas company backed by Nebraska money is looking to make its mark in an industry most prominent in places like Southern California, the Pacific Northwest …

  • Prairie Moves: Scriptito, SkyVu, Benaissance and more

    Published every Tuesday (one day 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, please…

  • Citing tax credits, Nebraska Angels tab Kansas co. for latest investment

    The Nebraska Angels, a consortium of individual angel investors, have made their first substantial investment in a non-Nebraska company. Yesterday, the group announced its participation alongside Kansas and California investment groups in a $1.8 million investment in Nitride Solutions, a Wichita, Kan.-based tech company. Though terms of the deal were not disclosed, Nebraska Angels board…

  • Entrepreneurship an eye-opening experience for UNL professor Farritor

    Shane Farritor had no plans of becoming an entrepreneur, but things changed in 2006. “This started with an alumnus from the university who is on the dean’s advisory board,” said Farritor, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. “He’s been very successful doing startup companies and wanted to help the university with his…