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What’s the most interesting company in the Silicon Prairie? The answer may...
FTNI Head of Sales and Marketing, Zac Robinson FTNI is an integrated receivables company…and possibly the least sexy, most interesting company in the Silicon Prairie Financial Transmission Network,...
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Cameo closes $12.5 million series A round
Chicago-based Cameo, founded in 2017, has raised $12.5 million Series A funding. The November 21 deal was led by Silicon Valley firm Lightspeed Venture Partners. Pritzker Group Venture Capital and...
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ChecktheQ transforms the venue experience
Travelers, sports fans and consumers of all kinds routinely experience wait times of some sort. The wait at airport security, sports concessions or the amusement park can lead to dread, anxiety and a...
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Companies pitch at Dream Big Grow Here in Sheldon, Iowa
Heartland Coffee and Nosh of Correctionville took home the first place prize of $4,000 Five finalist companies in northwest Iowa competed for a chance to win cash prizes to help grow their businesses....
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Embrace the rural…
Silicon Prairie News writes most of its stories about companies from cities or small towns, rarely do we write articles about rural areas. Being in the Midwest, we strongly believe in rural America....
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Cedar Rapid’s NewBoCo Launch Day will highlight Iowa innovators
Launch Day, NewBoCo’s annual event that celebrates accomplishments in entrepreneurship, innovation, and tech education in Iowa, is coming next Tuesday, December 11 to Theatre Cedar Rapids. “Launch Day...
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Sojern secures $120 million in venture funding
Sojern, developer of a travel technology platform, has raised $120 million Series D venture funding. Technology Crossover Ventures led the November 13 deal, with other undisclosed investors...
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Fetch Rewards closes $8 million deal
MADISON, WI – University of Wisconsin-Madison spinout Fetch Rewards, Inc. has raised $8 million in venture funding from undisclosed investors on November 29, 2018. The company plans to use the money...
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SPN Community Survey Update
Please take the Silicon Prairie News Community Survey. The survey has received more than six-hundred page views in the last three weeks. And yet, only ninety-one brave souls have taken the survey. We...
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NetThunder raises $1.2 million
WHEELING, IL – Software startup NetThunder raised $1.2 million in convertible debt funding from undisclosed investors on November 8, 2018. The company, founded in 2012, and based in a north suburb of...
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NMotion and Gener8tor announce new partnership
NMotion and Gener8tor have announced a new partnership federating the two early stage accelerators. Brian Ardinger, founder of NMotion, and Troy Vosseller, founder of Gener8tor, announced the...
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DivvyHQ voted top content marketing platform – again
The Content Marketing Institute (CMI) announced on November 14, 2018 that Kansas City-based DivvyHQ has been voted the top content marketing platform for the third straight year. CMI, the global...
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2018’s best techie gifts for your pets
Hooch, Turner, Scout, Teddy, and Comrade with their humans. Lizz Whitacre knows a lot about tech and pets. The Eden Prairie, Minnesota native originally came to Nebraska to study entrepreneurship at...
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GenoPalate recommends food choices based on customer’s genetic profiles
GenoPalate raised $357,065 in seed funding from Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation and other undisclosed investors on May 3, 2018. An undisclosed amount of convertible debt financing is...
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New companies and an accelerator are tackling transportation and logistics in...
Virtually every community in the Silicon Prairie advertises that it is in the middle of the country, and thus it is a good location for transportation, logistics, and warehousing. It should come as...
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Jiobit raises $6.5 million in funding
Jiobit (Jio) has raised $6.5 million in venture funding through SAFE notes and convertible debt. The company develops next generation wearable devices and a smartphone application intended to track...
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St. Louis-based DisruptOps raises $2.5 million seed round
KANSAS CITY, MO – DisruptOps, founded in 2014, has raised $2.5 million in a seed round funding from California-based Rally Ventures on July 20, 2018. Cyber Security Veteran, Gary Fish, and seed...
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New Allianz Life Ventures and SixThirty partnership focuses on FinTech and...
Earlier this month, Allianz Life Ventures, part of Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, announced a strategic partnership with SixThirty, a St. Louis-based venture fund that specializes in...
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Gravy closes $2 million deal
MADISON, WI – Gravy, a provider of an online shopping game platform has raised $2 million in Series III seed venture funding from Rock River Capital Partners and Magic Stone Alternative Investment....
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Des Moines-based Denim announces international expansion
Denim®, an intelligent mobile marketing platform for financial services, announced this week that it has been selected to partner with Startupbootcamp Colab InsurTech London (SBC Colab). As an...
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