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  • Des Moines startup hopes to build community through design

    … So—with the belief that posters are a great way to reach people outside your social circles—Ryan Morrison founded PosterZen. “I can go to a coffee shop and see posters for photography exhibits or concerts, but I wouldn’t necessarily have tried to search for it on Google,” Morrison said. “I think if somebody has a…

  • Rocket Referrals announced as 7th StartupCity Des Moines resident

    This week StartupCity Des Moines officially welcomed its newest resident: Rocket Referrals. The startup will be the seventh company in residence at the Des Moines incubator. “It’s invigorating,” co-founder Torey Maerz told Silicon Prairie News about working at StartupCity…

  • Former resident joins StartupCity Des Moines team as city manager

    StartupCity Des Moines announced on its blog Sunday that former resident Danyelle Crowell will serve as the incubator’s new city manager. Shortly after the facility opened Crowell worked there with startup MyLocalCoop. The position had been open since StartupCity’s previous city manager, Becky Mollenkamp, who joined the incubator in October 2011, relocated to St. Louis earlier this year.…

  • Tikly to depart StartupCity, begin work with Urbandale tech firm

    Online ticketing startup Tikly is set to depart business incubator StartupCity Des Moines at week’s end, the Des Moines Register reported this morning. The startup was part of the incubator’s initial group of residents when it opened its doors October 2011. Founder and CEO Emma Peterson …

  • StartupCity welcomes residents, coworkers; now allows “part-timers”

    StartupCity Des Moines, an early stage tech startup incubator in its second year, announced today the addition of two Des Moines startups to its group of residents. PosterZen, a web-based tool to create and order custom posters, came on board in November and PhoneBank.org …

  • Fashion mobile app GlamSnap wins Startup Weekend Des Moines

    GlamSnap, a mobile app that aims to help women with clothing purchases, won Startup Weekend Des Moines Sunday at StartupCity Des Moines, the venue for the city’s fifth iteration of the event. “(The idea) comes from a long history of terrible purchases that I have made throughout my life and my friends have called me…

  • As one-year mark nears, StartupCity co-founders share progress, goals

    One year ago, Christian Renaud and Tej Dhawan were still pitching their plans for a tech startup incubator in downtown Des Moines. With stops at five public and private entities, including the Corporation for Economic Development, the City of Des Moines and the Greater Des Moines Partnership, the two secured $750,000 to launch StartupCity Des…

  • More sights and sounds of the Iowa Startup Fair in Des Moines (Video)

    The second Iowa Startup Fair concludes Tuesday with the Innovation Expo in Coralville. That daylong event will cap off an 11-day, statewide effort to connect Iowa’s startup community with the state’s broader business community. A big piece of that effort took place last Tuesday at StartupCity Des Moines and Dwolla headquarters. There, 33 startups …

  • Incubator with StartupCity Des Moines ties comes to northwest Iowa

    Leann Jacobsen hopes establishing StartupCity Spencer, an incubator using the same name and approach of a Des Moines incubator, can put the northwest Iowa town of less than 12,000 people on the entrepreneurial map. “With the talented people that reside here …

  • With app for safe parks, SuperRanger takes top prize at OpenIowa

    An application that uses public data in an effort to make parks safer emerged Sunday as the winner of the inaugural OpenIowa at StartupCity Des Moines. SuperRanger, an app created by the team of Drew Maifeld, Yas Kuraishi, Melissa Burkheimer and Bethany Wilcoxon, took took home first place and a $500 prize at the conclusion…