DMACC has announced the event schedule for the 14th annual Celebrate! Innovation (ciLive! 14) Speaker Series, which will take place March 9, 2023, at the DMACC West Campus in West Des Moines.
This year’s ciLive! theme is “Be Your Own Superhero,” and will celebrate the many ways we can all achieve superhero status through creative thinking and collaboration. All ciLive! speaker events are…
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Inc. Magazine released its “Inc. 5000 regionals: Midwest 2023” list on Tuesday and six Iowa companies made the list.
The Midwest List is comprised of 203 of the fastest-growing private companies in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Topping the list of Iowa companies was Camillus…
PropelDay (previously Propel), a Des Moines company that provides fractional executive services to mid-size companies and startups, has acquired BlackGreyGold Solutions, an advisory business based in Southlake, Texas.
As a part of the acquisition, Barry Lingelbach and Matthew Hargrove have joined PropelDay as Managing Partners responsible for growing the company's new Fractional COO solutions. …
The Greater Des Moines Partnership’s sixth annual Small Business Success Summit will take place on Wednesday, March 22 from 8:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. at the FFA Center on the DMACC Ankeny campus. Summit participants will have a chance to hear presentations by keynote speakers and participate in workshops with fellow business owners.
New this…
The Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) announced last week that Iowa will invest an additional $2 million in the Manufacturing 4.0 Technology Investment Program.
The program helps small- to mid-size Iowa manufacturers invest in the adoption and integration of smart technologies with grant funding made available through the federal American Rescue Plan Act.
Iowa’s Manufacturing 4.0 initiative…
The Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) has announced financial assistance for three companies in Iowa in the first round of innovation awards funded through the U.S. Department of Treasury’s State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI).
Iowa’s SSBCI program, announced in October 2022, is a $96 million investment in growing Iowa's small businesses, including startups,…
Growers Edge, a financial technology company serving the ag industry, announced this week the successful close of a $15 million Series B extension round of financing.
The latest round of funding was led by S2G Ventures and Cox Enterprises, along with existing investors iSelect Fund, Skyline Global Partners, Finistere Ventures and Bunge.
In conjunction…
Viewpoint Molecular Targeting, a radiopharmaceutical company based in Coralville, last week announced the successful completion of a merger with medical technology company Isoray.
Coralville, Iowa-based Viewpoint and Richland, Washington-based Isoray announced their intent to merge back in September. Having completed the merger, the combined company now has access to Isoray's radioactive isotope, cesium-131, which is…
ImOn Communications (“ImOn”) announced this week it has acquired residential and business fiber-to-the-premise assets from Comelec Services.
Comelec has provided high-quality Internet services in Dubuque County since 2003. Comelec’s wireless Internet network is not included in this sale.
The assets ImOn purchased include a fiber network that covers portions of Dubuque, Asbury, Peosta, Epworth,…
After three years, the Techstars Iowa Accelerator will not return in 2023 and has decided to "take a pause," organizers of the program announced last week.
Launched in 2020, the accelerator graduated a total of 30 companies throughout its three cohorts. The Des Moines-based accelerator was funded by the investment office of Grinnell College, which…
The West Des Moines Chamber of Commerce is now accepting applications for the 2023 Athene Black & Brown Business Summit (BBBS) pitch competition, brought to you by exclusive pitch competition partner Bank of America.
Applicants to the 2023 Athene BBBS pitch competition must be 51% minority-owned, have been in business for at least two…
Moov Financial has raised $45 million in Series B to expand its money movement platform.
The funding round was led by Commerce Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), Visa, and Sorenson Ventures. The new capital will be used to grow both the platform and its utilization by customers.
"We are grateful that Commerce Ventures and…