Nora Crosthwaite is on a quest to disrupt the staging industry. After spending 17 years in IT, Crosthwaite made a sudden shift in career paths and decided to start her own real estate business in […]
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M25 releases its annual ranking of Midwest startup hubs
M25 has released its 2021 Best of the Midwest: Startup Cities Rankings. The annual Midwest Cities Rankings examines and ranks 59 cities in the Midwest, based on how they are performing relative to one another […]
31 Iowa companies crack the 2021 Inc. 5000 List
31 Iowa companies have been named to Inc. Magazine’s 2021 list of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies. VizyPay, a payment processing company headquartered in West Des Moines, was the top-ranked Iowa company, coming in at […]
Roboflow launches “Roboflow Universe,” a community hub for computer vision projects
Roboflow announced yesterday the launch of “Roboflow Universe” a community hub that allows anyone to share their computer vision datasets and pre-trained models with the world. Up until today, everything that users have built with […]
NAWBO Iowa announces second year of Business Institution, applications now open
NAWBO Iowa—National Association of Women Business Owners—is launching the second year of its Business Institute in October, uniquely designed for women business owners in Iowa who own an established business that has not yet reached […]
This Des Moines venture fund is investing in early-stage healthcare companies
For the past two years, UnityPoint Health Ventures—the venture capital arm of UnityPoint Health—has been investing in early-stage health care companies. Founded in May 2019 with an initial $100 million fund, the Des Moines-based venture firm makes […]
Middle Bit: Manchester Story leads multiple seed investment rounds
Des Moines investment firm Manchester Story has been busy as of late, having led in two different seed investment rounds over the last month. The first investment was in LimitFi, a credit insurtech based in […]
Techstars Iowa Accelerator Announces 2021 Class
The inaugural cohort of Techstars Iowa officially kicked off its 3-month journey today at Gravitate Coworking in Downtown Des Moines. Ten companies from a variety of industries are joining the 2021 program. Techstars Iowa is partnering with […]
Startup Champions Network Summit coming to Des Moines this fall
The Startup Champions Network (SCN), a national network of entrepreneurial ecosystem builders, has picked Des Moines to host its annual Fall Summit from Oct. 12-14 at Gravitate Coworking, the organization announced recently. The goal of the […]
Middle Bit: Continuum Ag wins Cisco Global Challenge Award
Continuum Ag has been announced as one of the winners of the fifth annual Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge. The Challenge is an online competition that awards cash prizes to early-stage tech entrepreneurs solving the world’s […]