The first 13 recipients of Future Ready Iowa's new Employer Innovation Fund have been announced.
The Employer Innovation Fund is a matching grant designed to help employers carry out solutions to help their employees achieve postsecondary training and education. The purpose of the grant is to provide opportunities for working Iowans to earn non-credit…
Local entrepreneurs and investors will gather together at the Forge in Jefferson for a Startup Pitch Day on Oct. 8. The winner of the event will receive a cash prize of $25,000.
"I came out for the announcement of The Forge back in December and was excited about all the energy I saw," said Greg…
Google announced this week the five Iowa nonprofits that will each receive $175,000 through the company's Impact Challenge Iowa program.
Of the five winners, one nonprofit will win an additional $125,000 decided by public votes. The public will then have a chance to vote for their favorite idea. The organization that receives the most votes…
Take your childhood lego creations, magnify them into life-size human figures, and you’ll have found the new Ames-based company, WeBuildU.
Founded by Chris Ihle, WeBuildU takes playing with legos to a new level by designing and creating life-size statues of human beings made entirely from lego bricks.
For the past four months, Ihle has sculpted…
Since forming in 2014, Pitchly, a data collaboration application for business teams, has focused on selling its software to global professional services firms—law firms, banks and accounting firms. Now, six years later, the company is expanding its scope, offering its software to a larger variety of businesses.
Pitchly's data collaboration platform allows business teams to…
Des Moines-based Integrated TeleHealth Partners (ITP) has been acquired by Psychiatric Medical Care.
ITP offers outpatient telepsychiatry services in community mental health clinics as well as 24/7 emergency telepsychiatry consultation services in hospital emergency rooms.
"We had certainly heard great things about them [Psychiatric Medical Care] and thought it made a lot of sense for…
Continuum Ag was named “best of show” of the more than 150 participants in Iowa State University’s pitching competition at the Iowa State Fair this year.
Continuum Ag is a consulting and data management company with a focus on soil health based in Washington, Iowa.
Students from every ISU college, as well as recent alumni, competed in…
Inc.'s annual list of the 5,000 fastest-growing privately held companies in the U.S has been released and 31 Iowa companies made the list.
Topping the list of Iowa companies was MCI in Iowa City,,coming in at rank 452 nationwide. The company saw a three-year-growth of 1002% and made $45.1 million in revenue in 2018.
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Iowa Virtual Reality Labs (IAVR) is a new virtual reality entertainment company that offers indoor and outdoor virtual reality experiences in Iowa.
IAVR can be set up indoors or in one of their custom virtual reality trailers, which is primarily used at parties and events.
"I served four years in the army and while I…
Nathan T. Wright is an illustrator and artist based in Des Moines. He is a regular contributor to Clay & Milk.
Find out more about him in his Q&A here and how his first year was as a full-time illustrator here. Wright also just completed a six-week artist-in-residence program for Ballet Des Moines, where he created a comic.
His previous…
A new way to experience fitness classes will soon be available for residents in the Des Moines area.
Two Des Moines women—Natalie Dayton and Kati Colby—are co-founders of The Drop, a new app that will let members test out and go to different types of fitness classes in the Des Moines area.
"I was in Philadelphia…
NewBoCo announced this week the launch of 99 Counties for Coding, a fundraising campaign that will measure the impact computer science classes have on students, teachers and school districts across Iowa.
“99 Counties for Coding offers a unique opportunity to support educators seeking computer science experience throughout the state, making concepts like problem solving, collaboration, and…