NewBoCo Launch Day will take place Tuesday, December 11, at Theatre Cedar Rapids. Launch Day is NewBoCo’s annual event that celebrates accomplishments in entrepreneurship, innovation, and tech education in Iowa.
NewBoCo Launch Day will feature pitches from Iowa Startup Accelerator portfolio companies and Social Good Accelerator teams, highlights from Intrapreneur Academy, and a progress report from…
The second annual Small Business Success Summit will take place in Ankeny on November 9.
The Small Business Success Summit is designed to inform and educate small business owners in the central Iowa area on strategies to properly run their business once it is up and running.
"Every year I searched for something where I could just…
Principal Financial Group, in partnership with the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI), has announced the Youth Can Innovation Program, an initiative dedicated to furthering the work of organizations that help youth achieve economic opportunity and financial health.
The program will seek to identify and invest in promising companies that are attempting to help to improve the…
More than 100 marketing, technology, innovation, and business leaders from the insurance and financial services industry gathered in downtown Des Moines on October 24 and 25 for Denim Summit 2018.
In addition to the main day of events, Denim held an opening reception at their new headquarters in downtown Des Moines on the evening the of the…
The Rose Francis Elevator Pitch Competition is set to take place on November 13 and 14.
The annually held competition is open to all University of Iowa students serious about starting and growing a business. Student presenters will have the opportunity to pitch their idea to a group of business professionals and receive feedback.
There are two days…
Social gaming company Hatchlings has announced that its Marketing Director, E.B. Updegraff will take on the role of CEO.
Updegraff will lead the company in a direction to help it attract new audiences for its games, explore fresh perspectives on the gaming industry, and grow the business as a whole.
Updegraff joined Hatchlings in early 2017 as its Marketing, Community and Social Media Manager.
Since then she has led the team in introducing many successful marketing strategies and in-game features, as well as coordinating the launch of Pretty Jigsaw Puzzles, released…
16 insurtech startups gathered in Des Moines last week along with technology, innovation, and business leaders from the insurance industry for a number of innovation activities put together by the Global Insurance Accelerator (GIA).
The activities included innovation presentations, co-working, networking, education and matchmaking for pilots and capital raises with the bulk of the week's activities…
The Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute has announced that applications are currently being accepted for the 2019 Community Connect program, which begins in February.
The five-session program, facilitated by Dr. Christi Hegstad and program alumni, offers a dynamic learning environment and ensures interaction with each mentor as well as other program participants. Between sessions, participants meet…
This story is part of a series that will look at and profile each of the six startups in NewBoCo’s Fall 2018 accelerator programs.
In 2008, the Witwer Senior Center in Cedar Rapids was flooded and the city has not seen an adequate replacement since then.
Aging Services, a nonprofit organization that provides services and resources to…
After buying his own 3D printer, Brandon Hart quickly became completely immersed in the hobby of 3D printing. In 2015, he decided to start his own 3D printing business, HartSmart Products.
"I was running out of things to print and decided to jump on 3D printing hubs and take jobs for people," Hart said. That started going…
For the better part of two decades, Brian McMillin has been developing websites for small businesses in Iowa. McMillin began making websites for others while going to Cornell College in Mt. Vernon as an opportunity to sharpen his skills while making a side-income.
"It sort of slowly snowballed organically until 2016, where I reached the maximum…
SwineTech, an agtech company headquartered in Cedar Rapids, has raised $1.5 million which will allow them to begin to expand into other states and countries.
Innova Memphis and Ag Ventures Alliance both participated in the round.
SwineTech’s product, SmartGuard, prevents piglet deaths by using artificial intelligence to read data through sensors and locate exactly when and where a piglet…