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Livly closes $10 million seed round
Livly, based in Chicago, has raised $10 million in seed funding. The company, founded in 2018, closed the deal on March 12. Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Navitas Capital and JLL Spark led the round,...
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Greenfield Robotics innovates in ag with chemical-free weed control
Clint Brauer grew up farming with his dad in Kansas. He did not enjoy farming at all and after graduating from K-State, made his way to Los Angeles to work. After spending 13 years in tech, Clint set...
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Balto Software helps drive sales and revenue through improved communication
St. Louis-based Balto Software, is an AI technology truly changing sales. The Balto technology makes sales reps better listeners, clearer communicators, and more empathetic, skilled salespeople –...
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The Champaign Report
Thank you for your responses Champaign. The Champaign community shared their thoughts on their entrepreneurial ecosystem via the SPN community survey last December. To show our gratitude and to...
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HealthJoy closes $12.5 million series B deal
HealthJoy raised $12.5 million Series B venture financing on March 8, 2019, in a deal led by US Venture Partners, with Chicago Ventures, Sidekick Fund, EPIC Ventures, and the HealthJoy co-founders...
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Level EX raises $4 million in venture funding
Level Ex closed a $4 million venture funding deal with undisclosed investors on March 22, 2019. An undisclosed portion of the raise was in the form of convertible debt. Level Ex is a creator of video...
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20th Annual InvestMidwest brings together 36 companies from 15 states
Some 350 people – including entrepreneurs, investors and business professionals – have met to begin possible investment discussions at this year’s 20th annual InvestMidwest Venture Capital Forum. The...
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Alyss’ insights helping companies land the best talent
Alyss is innovating in hiring. When Alyss competed for and won the $120K grand prize at the Inside/Outside Innovation Summit in Lincoln, Nebraska last year, company Founder and CEO Mike Mathia was...
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Dwolla awarded the FinTech Breakthrough Award for Best B2B Payments Product
Dwolla has been awarded the 2019 FinTech Breakthrough Award for Best B2B Payments Product. Over 3,500 nominations were submitted this year from all over the world. “The really cool thing about this...
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8QS With a Silicon Prairie Founder: Tamara Brunow
Tamara Brunow is CEO of Brunow Contracting and H2W Apparel. Tamara Brunow is the CEO of Brunow Contracting, an SBA 8(a) Certified, Economically Disadvantaged Woman-Owned, HUBZone Concern based in...
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Inanovate proving that bioscience lives in Sioux Falls
Inanovate raised more than three million dollars in mid-February to continue its efforts to build better tools for identifying genetic markers with smaller blood samples. Inanovate is a hardware...
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Redlyst raises $250k
On April 4, Redlyst, a St. Louis security software company reported raising $250,000 from undisclosed investors. Redlyst provides enhanced situational awareness for a variety of organizations. Using...
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gener8tor is powering Midwest innovation
gener8tor is no longer just a top tier accelerator hidden away in Wisconsin. gener8tor’s mission is to be the best partner for a community to invest in its best and brightest. gener8tor is proving this...
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Kansas City-based PayIt raises $100 million plus from Insight Partners
On March 28, Kansas City-based PayIt announced that they had reached terms to infuse $100 million of new capital into their company. This round was led by Ryan Hinkle of Insight Partners’ New York...
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Entrepreneurship competition focuses on providing opportunities to the...
Marcus Bullock, CEO of Flikshop and TechStars alum Determination, Incorporated is hosting an upcoming entrepreneurship and development workshop––but it’s not what you might be expecting. Kansas...
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Fargo based c2renew raises round
On March 28, c2renew announced that it raised $150k from undisclosed investors. This fundraising was done in the form of SAFE notes (simple agreement for future equity). The company helps clients...
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8Qs with a Silicon Prairie Founder: Leah Buller
Preparation often ignites new opportunities; Leah Buller knows that innovative recipe well. In 2011 Leah Buller made the choice to leave the workforce and stay at home with her, then, young children....
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2019 Prometheus Awards winners announced
Technology Association of Iowa 2019 Prometheus Awards winners have been named. The Prometheus Awards took place last night in downtown Des Moines at the Community Choice Credit Union Convention...
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Milwaukee-based Bright Cellars raises next round
Bright Cellars has raised a new round of funding. Bright Cellars is a subscription wine club that prides itself on matching individual wine drinkers with wine that they will love. They do this by...
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Zuckerburg-led philanthropic initiative invests in KC’s LEANLAB
Katie Boody, LEANLAB CEO The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the primary philanthropic vehicle for Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has made its first investment in Kansas City to improve public...
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