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SPN’s 2017 holiday gift guide
Still looking for the perfect gift for the techie, entrepreneur or hard-to-shop-for person in your life? Who better to give ideas than the makers themselves! We asked the startup community which...
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NMotion’s Beth McKeon leaving to consult accelerators with Fluent
Members of Lincoln and Omaha’s startup ecosystem gathered at the Ironhorse Bar & Event Room in the Haymarket Tuesday night to say farewell to Beth McKeon, NMotion’s Managing Director. McKeon will...
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SPN Kernels: News from across the prairie
Kansas City, MO: Likarda Scales Up with New Space Biotech research laboratory Likarda more than doubled the square footage of their laboratory space with a move to the former Marion Laboratories...
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SPN’s biggest success stories of 2017
2017 was another big year for growth in the Silicon Prairie. The last twelve months brought countless announcements from startups championing multi-million dollar raises, acquisitions, partnerships,...
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SPN’s most read stories of 2017
SPN is honored to have spent another year celebrating the makers and doers of the Silicon Prairie. Through sharing the region’s news, events and updates with our audience, we continue our mission to...
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OnCore Golf and vGolf announce partnership and development agreement for...
OnCore Golf Technology, Inc., a Buffalo, New York-based leading innovator in golf ball technologies, announced today a partnership with Omaha-based vGolf, LLC. The partnership combines vGolf’s mixed...
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SPN QA with The Innovators co-hosts Blake Lawrence and Will Compton
Next week’s The Innovators in Kansas City is a much-anticipated event known for bringing together successful entrepreneurs, investors, advisors, and thought leaders from near and far. Events will take...
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CoJoe coworking space coming to St. Joseph, Missouri
St. Joseph, Missouri’s entrepreneurial scene is about to have one of their top wishes granted with the upcoming opening of CoJoe, an innovative co-working space located in historic downtown St....
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Pipeline celebrates Entrepreneurial Expression at the 11th annual Innovators...
Over 600 people gathered on Thursday at the Midland Theatre in Kansas City to celebrate the 11th annual Pipeline Innovators Awards with this year’s fellows, award winners and startup community...
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Laura McCoolidge Classen brought on as new Managing Director of Mid-America...
The Mid-America Angels investment network (MAA), which focuses on early-stage companies in the Kansas and Missouri region, announced Thursday that Laura McCoolidge Classen, formerly of Nebraska...
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Whiteboard Technologies raises $2.5 million
Whiteboard Technologies recently announced that it has completed a raise of $2.5 million, led by i2e, an Oklahoma based venture entity. Whiteboard Technologies, creator of Whiteboard Mortgage CRM,...
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Arkansas startup Cheeterz Firearm Accessories secures $300K angel investment
Cheeterz Firearem Accessories completed a $0.3 million deal with an undisclosed angel investor in July 2018. The startup company, based in Des Arc, Arkansas and founded this year, provides firearm...
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8Qs with a Silicon Prairie Founder: Ali Schwanke
Ali Schwanke is the Founder of Simple Strat, the marketing agency for companies serious about growth. She and her team bring a strong business and technical component to the marketing space, driving...
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Omaha travel tech company Sojern expands
In 2007, Gordon Whitten founded Sojern with the idea of placing ads on print-at-home boarding passes. Fast forward 11 years later to what Sojern is today, an Omaha original that has surpassed $100...
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Omaha-based H3C raises angel round
H3C, a company that provides chronic care management software, recently filed federal paperwork representing a $250k raise. This raise is part of a continued effort by the company to expand its...
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St. Louis company Benson Hill Biosystems raises $60 million in venture funding
Benson Hill Biosystems closed a $60 million series C venture funding deal on September 10, 2018. Participants in the deal include Alexandria Venture Investments, Activant Capital Group, S2G Ventures...
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SPN Top 10: Must see startup movies
Do they make movies about successful start-ups? A quick search reveals this question has been asked and answered on several different occasions every year for several years. The selection criteria...
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AppLink.io launches App Growth and gears up to expand nationally
The soft launch of AppLink.io’s Mobile App Analytics platform in 2017 aimed to get the Des Moines startup on the radar of the rest of the Midwest’s ecosystem. Now, a year later, the company is...
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Total Expert closes $20 million Series B deal led by Emergence Capital
Minneapolis-based Total Expert announced today that the firm has raised $20 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Emergence Capital with participation from Rally Ventures and Arthur...
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Tractor Zoom completes $1 million seed round
Des Moines based startup, Tractor Zoom, completed a $ 1 million seed investment round September 12, in a deal led by the Ag Startup Engine. Innova Memphis and other undisclosed angel investors also...
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