Ames entrepreneur Steven Brockshus is the 2019 American Farm Bureau Entrepreneur of the Year, the Iowa Farm Bureau announced on Monday. It is the fourth time in five years that an Iowa-based company has won the Farm Bureau’s Ag Innovation Challenge. As one of the final four contestants, Brockshus presented a live pitch on Sunday […]
The Global Insurance Accelerator is welcoming 10 new insurtech companies to Des Moines as part of the 2019 cohort, starting Jan. 15. This year’s GIA cohort is developing and delivering new products and business models for buying insurance, cyber risk protection, underwriting automation, advisor services, digital transformation, claims resolution, pension planning, and employee benefit management. […]
The Neiman Marcus Group has agreed to pay $1.5 million and implement several policies following the 2013 breach of customer payment card data at 77 Neiman Marcus stores, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller announced Tuesday. About 370,000 cards were affected in the months-long hack by an unknown party, which Neiman Marcus publicly disclosed in January […]
Before he joined Hy-Vee as a software engineer, Lee Robinson’s search for his next career move in Iowa was a hassle. Robinson entered all the tech companies he knew of into a series of spreadsheets, comparing benefits and information at hand. As the spreadsheet grew, he noticed a growing circle of companies he had never heard […]
Is Amazon entering health records? Will Apple offer more advanced health monitoring? Can Uber solve transportation for seniors and patients? What is Alphabet doing in health research? The Verge rounded up some of the more interesting partnerships over 2018 by tech companies and the healthcare industry.IN OTHER NEWS: A joint tech venture by agrigiants ADM and Cargill worries […]
dsmHack is now accepting nonprofit applications through Jan. 31 for the 2019 Des Moines Charity Hack, scheduled for Feb. 21-23 at the Des Moines Social Club. The hackathon brings selected nonprofits to pitch project needs in front of tech industry attendees. Participants self-select projects for a 48-hour coding rush – past projects have benefited the […]
We asked our Trends for 2019 contributors to think about what trends may come up in the next ten years – from main street businesses to university research and everything in between. Take a peek at some of the responses below, and view the full cover story in the Business Record on Jan. 4.Jayne Armstrong, […]
A Des Moines insuretech startup is crossing the pond to new clients, thanks to Denim’s new partnership with London-based Startupbootcamp CoLab InsurTech (SBC CoLab). Through the CoLab program, SBC serves as a mediator between startups already providing services to clients, and corporations seeking smaller partners to address technical needs within the company. SBC does not […]
An online phishing scam resulted in $45,880.90 stolen from the Diocese of Des Moines after the scammer impersonated a diocesan employee requesting a funds transfer, the diocese reported in a statement on Monday. Law enforcement are investigating after the Dec. 13 incident. No diocesan staff are expected of malfeasance, Bishop Richard Pates said. The diocese […]
In the seventh year of the Business Record’s annual Leaders Survey, the Business Record asked local leaders whether they believe Central Iowa businesses had adequate access to venture capital. It’s a snapshot of our wider concerns – the survey, released in print and in daily e-newsletter snapshots, checks the pulse on some of Des Moines’ […]