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Invest Nebraska doles out $500k to robotic surgical device company
Invest Nebraska Corporation, a state-funded venture capital organization, recently announced it participated in a bridge financing round of Lincoln, Neb.-based Virtual Incision. Though the terms of the round were undisclosed, Invest Nebraska analyst Adam Hunke told Silicon Prairie News the organization contributed $500,000 (investments made by Invest Nebraska must be matched or exceeded by another…
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Lincoln ‘Idea Community’ Turbine Flats fosters expansion, collaboration
The Turbine Flats Project is an “idea community” in Lincoln that began in 2008 with 22 people and 11,500 square feet. Today, some 75 employees work in the space, which has undergone one addition and is in the midst of a second. In December we covered ISoft Data Systems and the company’s CEO, Matthew Wegener.…
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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…
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Prairie Moves: Matt Secoske, NUtech Ventures, John Wirtz & more
Published every Tuesday, 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 info@siliconprairienews.com. And if you…
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Virtual Incision Corporation completes $2M Series A financing
Late last month, Lincoln, Nebraska-based Virtual Incision Corporation, a developer of in vivo robots for use in single incision laparoscopic surgery, announced it completed…