Ahraz Husain has been appointed vice president of data at Growers Edge, the agriculture financial technology company announced Monday. Husain most recently led a team of data product managers and data and analytics engineers at Corteva Agriscience. He started at Corteva in 2016 focusing on the company’s digital solutions platform before moving over to research and […]
Home Base Iowa, America’s Small Business Development Center Iowa and the Iowa State University Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship are co-hosting the first Veterans Entrepreneurship Conference to support veterans and their families who are starting or expanding a business. Participants can attend sessions covering financial and legal basics and marketing and have opportunities to network and […]
Needing mental health resources, tech adds support in schools Today’s students are in the unique position of being a generation growing up in the digital age whose relationship to technology has also been transformed by the pandemic. While many are naturally adept at figuring out how devices function, school districts are trying new technologies that can […]
Five rural Iowa communities in Crawford and Keokuk counties can now access Mediacom Communications’ fiber-optic network, the company has announced. The extension of the network was powered by two grant awards from the Empower Rural Iowa Broadband Grant Program totaling more than $150,000 and $1 million of Mediacom’s private capital. The five communities are Deloit, Kiron, […]
Coherent, a global software-as-a-service provider with a Des Moines presence, has announced it has closed a $75 million Series B funding round, bringing its total funding to date to $89 million. Coherent Spark, the company’s primary product, converts business logic within spreadsheets into an Application Programming Interface that can connect with front and back-end software […]
The startup has moved from one Des Moines-based accelerator to another Right after wrapping up the Global Insurance Accelerator’s 100-day program, Safari, a recruitment and training startup targeting the insurance workforce, is now taking part in BrokerTech Venture’s third accelerator cohort that launched in April. The company started in New York, where founder Jelani Fenton started his […]
The Pi515 2022 Girls Entrepreneurs Summit concluded last week with the announcement of this year’s pitch competition winner Aerz Johnson, a ninth grade student at Waterloo West High School. “I didn’t really have a plan before this. I don’t even have an idea to be up here,” Johnson said. “I didn’t know how to pitch, […]
Colocation and cloud services provider LightEdge announced Tuesday it has acquired NFINIT, a San Diego-based infrastructure solutions provider, aiming to strengthen its footprint in the southwest. NFINIT offers data center, cloud, security, connectivity, and managed services to clients in the southwest region. With this acquisition, LightEdge will open four data centers in the region, three in California […]
Before attendees at the second annual Athene Black and Brown Business Summit dove into a day of workshops and breakout sessions, keynote speaker Pamela Jolly told the group she was going to step back and look at the big picture on wealth generation for businesses owned by people of color. She began with the reminder […]
The Technology Association of Iowa has hired Nicole Barreca Prenger as its director of communications and public relations. “It is an incredible honor and privilege to join the Technology Association of Iowa,” Barreca Prenger said in a press release. “Throughout my career I have worked to elevate the voices and achievements of those who deserve […]