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Parametric Studio Inc. awarded $738,000 grant
Ames-based Parametric Studio Inc. has received $738,000 in grant money from the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research fund. This NSF SBIR grant will help Parametric Studio,...
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Kauffman provides a grant to the Startup Champions Network
The Startup Champions Network, a national organization of entrepreneurial ecosystem builders with a strong Silicon Prairie presence, announced on October 29 that it received a planning grant from the...
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Sioux City Launch Week begins today
Sioux City Launch Week kicks off today with a wide range of events aimed toward engaging northwest Iowa’s entrepreneurial community and building a strong entrepreneurial ecosystem. Launch week is...
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Why Silicon Prairie News is making noise about acquisitions
The Silicon Prairie startup ecosystem needs to do a better job of promoting itself and acknowledging success when it happens. Silicon Prairie News exists to be a voice that promotes startups and makes...
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Transportant raises $1 million to keep kids safe
Transportant describes itself as a pupil transportation management company based in the Kansas City area. The company raised just north of $1 million over the course of the last nine months from a...
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Buildertrend and others to be honored on Nov. 15 at Omaha-area Tech Celebration
Omaha-based Buildertrend will be honored at the 2018 AIM Tech Celebration as the Exemplary High-Growth Business of the year. The Exemplary High-Growth Business award recognizes a startup or small...
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Startup Connection draws companies and crowds in its 10th year
GiftAMeal wins $10,000 in consulting services from Slalom at Startup Connection ’18 (photo credit – Romondo Davis) Startup Connection, the St. Louis regional celebration of entrepreneurship, marked its...
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Provider Pool seeks to connect healthcare professionals with healthcare...
Janna Westbrook, Tiffany Davis, and Terry Williams are three nurses who decided to create a solution to decrease staffing costs for healthcare facilities. The entrepreneurs quit their jobs and started...
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Minneapolis based Travel Labs joins Beta.MN and raises $500K
Minneapolis-based Travel Labs joins Beta.MN and raises $500,000. Travel Labs is the creator of an artificial intelligence platform intended to make business travel easier. They are also the creator of...
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Lightgliders aims to inspire hope and purpose through fun and games
Zach Fay and his sister Julie McWilliams are the startup founders of Kingdom Scene, which launched Lightgliders in 2014. Their idea was to utilize digital games and activities as a way to engage kids...
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Allianz, Securian partnering with gener8tor to form OnRamp
Allianz, the €126 billion German insurance giant, and Securian Financial, the $5.1 billion financial services company, announced a partnership with the Wisconsin-based startup accelerator, gener8tor....
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Glint acquired by LinkedIn for $400 million
Glint is a California-based company that provides employment information to employers that sets off multiple workflows based on AI. For example, this information, pulled from a survey regarding their...
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Silicon Prairie News Community Survey
In the course of SPN’s existence, we have received hundreds of tips regarding companies and communities. We do our best to cover each company or community well, but we don’t always succeed. In order...
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Opinion: Why Did Chicago Lose Amazon?
On Tuesday, November 13, 2018, Amazon announced that its new HQ2 would actually be two locations: NYC and Northern Virginia (near DC). Many Silicon Prairie cities were left disappointed because their...
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Fifteen Software Companies in Nebraska that you should be able to explain to...
Here at SPN, we are thankful for the building that is taking place here in the Silicon Prairie. We want to highlight some of the companies that provide great examples of these entrepreneurial...
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Sioux City is rebooting a bright tech future
Sioux City has a history as a tech leader, and history is about to repeat itself. For those that don’t know, Sioux City was once a hub of cutting-edge technology employing thousands of tech workers....
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Lawrence-based Ainstein zeroing in on success
Ainstein’s ULGB-D1 is optimized for ground-to-air drone detection and monitoring. Ainstein, a Midwest startup with global ambition, aims to make radar solutions smarter, more affordable, and easier...
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Guest Post: Your city never stood a chance of HQ2
Last week our article from Chicago provided interesting insight into HQ2 and its selection. We reached directly out to Jeffrey Carter when we saw his blog post because we thought it was really...
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This holiday season, we’re saying thank you to farmers––and agricultural...
What would our Thanksgiving weekend have been without food? Feeding the world is important. In a world full of food turmoil, drought, fires, and other natural calamities, it is critical that cutting...
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Bardavon Health Innovations closes $16.87 million in effort to revolutionize...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Bardavon Health Innovations closed a $16.87 million venture funding deal on November 20, bringing the company’s total raised to date $20.88 million. NewRoad Capital Partners,...
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