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  • Pear Deck wins Rise of the Rest competition at SXSW [Video]

    Pear Deck wins Rise of the Rest competition at SXSW [Video]

    Last night Riley Eynon-Lynch, co-founder of Pear Deck, won the Rise of the Rest pitch competition at SXSW. His prize? $150,000 in investment from Steve Case, venture capitalist and founder of America Online. Iowa City-based Pear Deck helps teachers keep students engaged in the classroom by connecting their presentations with student digital devices. It also…

  • Pear Deck nabs first place in Pappajohn Business Plan Competition

    Pear Deck nabs first place in Pappajohn Business Plan Competition

    DES MOINES—Last week Iowa City-based startup Pear Deck added another title to its list of recent accolades. On Thursday, the education tech company took home first place at the John Pappajohn Iowa Business Plan Competition and was awarded $25,000 during a luncheon held at Drake University in Des Moines.

  • Pear Deck’s app helps teachers engage in real time with every student

    Pear Deck, an interactive presentation Google app for the classroom, is live worldwide. The tool has been in beta since March, with thousands of users in select school districts across the country. Now the final version is available in the Google Chrome Web Store.

  • And the winners of the 2014 Silicon Prairie Awards are…

    And the winners of the 2014 Silicon Prairie Awards are…

    After literally thousands of votes, the input of a handful of judges and a lot of creative social media campaigns, all of you dressed to the nines and joined us Thursday evening at Kansas City’s Midland Theatre to see who would be deemed the best of the Prairie. Now we’re excited to share with you…

  • Three Iowa tech startups among Pappajohn Business Plan finalists

    Iowa startups Rocket Referrals, NextStep.io and PearDeck were among the 10 finalists for the 2014 John Pappajohn Iowa Business Plan Competition announced Tuesday.

  • Get to know the five finalists for New Startup of the Year

    This award is for the young’n that has, within the last year, grown from idea to full-fledged force somewhere on the Silicon Prairie. And the finalists are…

  • IEDA awards Demonstration Fund capital to Bawte, Pear Deck

    Last week the Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) awarded five startups grants or loans from the Demonstration Fund, including two Iowa tech startups.

  • ActiveGrade founders create new education startup Pear Deck

    With increasingly fast Internet speeds and a growing ability for real-time interactions, innovations in technology are changing the game in traditional education. Now Iowa City, Iowa-based startup Pear Deck is harnessing that technology to help teachers better engage with their students. “What makes it really exciting is that one of the problems for any teacher,…