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Silicon Prairie Awards will be part of Omaha Startup Week next spring
We are excited to announced that we are moving the Silicon Prairie Awards to next spring in order to align the region’s premiere startup awards gala with Omaha Startup Week. We had a blast in Lincoln...
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EyeVerify sold for $70 million to Alibaba’s Ant Financial
Kansas City-based EyeVerify has been sold to Ant Financial Services Group, a payment affiliate of Alibaba and operator of Alipay, according to a press release on EyeVerify’s website. Although the...
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QA with Nebraska Angels’ Laura Classen on EyeVerify’s recent acquisition
Kansas City based EyeVerify announced last week their acquisition by Alibaba subsidiary Ant Financial. Anonymous sources say the deal was over $100 million. Nebraska Angels was one of the first...
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Why Mark Hasebroock is optimistic about the Silicon Prairie
Mark Hasebroock is the founder of Omaha-based Dundee Venture Capital, which announced today their new $20 million Fund III, focusing on e-commerce, B2B SaaS and consumer-network startups. They also...
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DriveOff wins Startup Weekend Omaha
The DriveOff team (left to right): Ian Addy, Landon Miller, Erin Dabbs, Marvin Roe, Wendy Holley, Cara Heacock. Photo by Dale Eesley. DriveOff was the winning team at this year’s Startup Weekend Omaha,...
View ArticleWatch “Nebraska Startup Story” featured during Rise of the Rest [Video]
Check out this new video featuring some of Nebraska’s most exciting startup entrepreneurs. “Time is the enemy of every startup,” said Nathan Preheim, co-founder of The Startup Collaborative. “If you...
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LifeLoop wins $100,000 investment at Rise of the Rest
Omaha-based LifeLoop wins $100,000 investment from Steve Case at the Rococo Theatre in downtown Lincoln, Nebraska, Monday evening. Photo by Ryan Pendell. AOL co-founder Steve Case and his Rise of the...
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ShotTracker raises $5 million in seed round with Magic Johnson, David Stern
Basketball wearables startup ShotTracker has raised $5 million in its seed round, according to a press release. The fundraising round includes investments by Earvin “Magic” Johnson and former NBA...
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Kauffman announces $960,000 in scholarships to solve Midwest capital gap
Wendy Guillies at the Kauffman Fellows announcement event on Monday. Photo courtesy of the Kauffman Foundation. Most of the scholarships will be awarded to VC fund managers in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas...
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Sioux City’s Base 3 event returns November 10
Josh McNary speaking at Base 3 in Sioux City in January 2016. Photo by Bri Harding. Sioux City’s premiere startup event Base 3 will be returning on November 10th at the Ho Chunk Centre. The speakers...
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ScoreVision, Don’t Panic Labs honored at AIM Tech Celebration
Serial entrepreneur and ScoreVision co-founder Gordon Whitten accepting the Emerging Business of the Year Award at the 2016 AIM Tech Celebration. Photo by Jon Larsen. Omaha’s ScoreVision and Lincoln’s...
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Apply now for Silicon Prairie News Intern
Silicon Prairie News is looking for a promising student to fill a new internship role for our site. We are looking for a current student or recent graduate with superior writing and editing skills, a...
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Join us at Omaha’s Startup Holiday Party on December 9
We’re excited to announce the third annual Startup Holiday Party! Come together, let your hair down, put a sweater on, take a breather and celebrate the holidays and all that we’ve accomplished...
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Our 10 favorite advice stories of 2016
Revo co-founder Marianne Worthington. Photo courtesy of Marianne Worthington. Along with our many company profiles over the course of the year, we at SPN enjoy sprinkling in some hard-earned wisdom...
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Flywheel acquires Pressmatic
Omaha startup Flywheel has announced the acquisition of Pressmatic, an OS X application for publishing WordPress sites. Pressmatic was released earlier this year and quickly gained prominence in the...
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Our 10 favorite Iowa startup stories of 2016
Upcraft Club founder Elizabeth Caven at White House round table discussion on women entrepreneurs. Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Caven. Silicon Prairie News covers the tech startup scene across Nebraska,...
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Our 10 favorite Nebraska startup stories of 2016
Liberty’s Valerie Lefler and Shashank Gajjala. Photo by Jess Sodeke. Silicon Prairie News covers the tech startup scene across Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri. Here are our most popular stories...
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Our 10 favorite Kansas startup stories of 2016
The Lawrence, Kansas, company Lume Lifestyle has been featured on Business Insider, MTV, Mashable and Cosmo. Photo courtesy of Lume Lifestyle. Silicon Prairie News covers the tech startup scene across...
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Our 10 favorite Missouri startup stories of 2016
MyEDmatch founder and CEO Alicia Herald. Silicon Prairie News covers the tech startup scene across Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri. Here are our most popular stories from Missouri this year: 1. How...
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Our 10 favorite investment stories of 2016
Silicon Prairie News covers the tech startup scene across Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri. Here are our most popular investment stories this year: 1. Flywheel raises $4 million in Series A, led by...
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