Hummingbirds, an online platform that connects businesses with hyper-local content creators, announced this week it has raised over $1 million in funding.
The round was led by Chicago-based venture capital firm M25 with participation by Next Level Ventures, InnoVentures Iowa, ISA Ventures, Mango Seed Investments and a handful of angel investors.
Hummingbirds is a platform…
Bristola, an Iowa-based clean energy technology and maintenance company, announced last week the successful close of a $400,000 seed investment round.
Headquartered in Des Moines, Bristola is a renewable energy technology services company that has a patent pending technology that revolutionizes servicing, cleaning and maintenance in the renewable energy digester industry. Bristola’s patent pending…
Steel Therapeutics, an early stage pharmaceutical company focused on increasing access to compounded drug therapies, announced this week that it has closed on $1.5 million in financing in an over-subscribed seed round. The company’s financing was led by ISA Ventures, based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and included a several private investors with significant industry experience.
“We…
Koloni, a Midwest-based startup, announced today that it has successfully completed a seed round of $1.3 million. The round was led by Jason Calacanis’ Launch Fund with additional investments from ISA Ventures, Twelve19 Ventures, Chicago Early Growth Ventures, Locker One Ventures and others.
Koloni's platform is looking to revolutionize the smart locker industry, enabling smart…
Onward Delivery, a freight marketplace that connects retail stores to underutilized trucks already on the road, has closed an oversubscribed $4.7 million seed funding round, led by Range Ventures and Matchstick Ventures.
The round also includes participation from angel investors including Andrew Leto, Founder & CEO of Emerge; Jett McCandless, Founder and CEO of Project44; Sean Henry, Founder &…
Ames-based startup Farmers Risk has received an initial $50,000 investment from Ag Startup Engine.
Farmers Risk’s mission is to democratize the tools available to help farmers manage risk and create more predictable revenue on the farm.
Farmers Risk has built software tools that consolidate core risk management decisions into a single source which makes understanding risk easy,…
Mazen Animal Health announced today the close of its Series Seed Round led by Next Level Ventures and joined by Kent Corporation, ISA Ventures, Ag Startup Engine, Ag Ventures Alliance and Summit Ag.
The company is developing orally-delivered animal vaccines that revolutionize animal disease prevention. All six first tranche investors came into the second tranche…
Roboflow, a Des Moines-based startup that empowers developers to build their own computer vision applications, has raised a $2.1 million seed round co-led by Lachy Groom and Craft Ventures.
Additional investors in the round include Next Level Ventures, Segment co-founder Calvin French-Owen, Lob CEO Leore Avidar, Firebase co-founder James Tamplin and early Dropbox engineer…
MSUITE, a Cedar Rapids-based construction tech startup, has completed a $4 million seed funding round.
The round was led by Next Level Ventures and Stanley Ventures, with participation from technology firm U.S. CAD.
The new capital will help scale up all areas of the company and accelerate the development of MSUITE's cloud-based platform.
Founded in 2015, MSUITE was…
Moov Financial, an open source embedded banking platform, has raised $5.5M in seed funding led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from Canapi Ventures, Commerce Ventures, Gradient Ventures, RRE Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures, and 27 angel investors. Veridian Credit Union also participated in the round after signing a strategic partnership agreement.
Based in Cedar Falls,…
Tractor Zoom, an online marketplace that connects farm equipment auctioneers and buyers, has completed a $1 million seed investment round
Innova Memphis participated in the round, alongside investments from Ag Startup Engine and a small group of angel investors and individuals that hold the remaining positions in the round.
Tractor Zoom plans to use the investment to grow their team…
Pitchly announced today that they have completed a seven-figure seed funding round.
The round was led by Next Level Ventures, with participation from M25, Great North Labs and other local investors.
"Pitchly has a unique focus to help professionals, especially in the M&A sector, to curate and market data. Managing these various points is a big problem, and…