The Hawkeye Startup Accelerator at the University of Iowa is accepting applications from student individual and team founders for its 11-week summer program, which takes place from May 17 to July 31. Founders will receive a $5,000 living stipend. The application is available online.
The Iowa Go-to-Market (G2M) Accelerator announced the inaugural 2021 G2M cohort of five participating Iowa biotechnology startups. Cohort members are CartilaGen of Iowa City, Classroom Clinic of Carroll, FBB Biomed of Coralville, Mazen Animal Health of Ames and Sushi3D, also of Ames. The accelerator is supported by BioConnect Iowa, VentureNet Iowa and the Iowa State […]
After Mike Colwell retires at the end of this month as executive director of entrepreneurial initiatives at the Greater Des Moines Partnership, he’ll help lead one more session of the Partnership’s Raising Capital Seminar Series, a twice-yearly power course for entrepreneurs learning how to fund their business. Colwell, himself a private investor, is preparing to enjoy a […]
Gravitate Coworking is expanding to two new communities. The timing, nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, is unexpected, Gravitate owner Geoff Wood said. But opportunity knocked to set the coworking space up for the post-COVID world in Jefferson and Cedar Falls. “On the one hand, we’re in survivability mode to get to the end […]
Trokt, a Des Moines startup developing negotiations-management software and “Thumbprinter” technology, joined the LexLab Accelerator in San Francisco, based out of the University of California Hastings College of Law. Trokt is one of six participants in the legaltech accelerator’s first virtual cohort, and aims to develop its marketing for its new Thumbprinter documentation product before […]
For the Iowa AgriTech Accelerator, 2020 was a program success, executive director Nadilia Gomez said this week. In January, the accelerator received “unprecedented numbers” of applications for the 2020 cohort. At the onset of a global pandemic in the spring, IATA transferred the entire program virtually for the four participating startups. “We were able to […]
Peter Hong has been named director of the Iowa State University Startup Factory program effective Feb. 1, the Iowa State University Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship announced Wednesday. Hong was selected after a regional search, and succeeds Bill Adamowski, the Startup Factory’s inaugural president, and Kris Johansen, interim director since Adamowski resigned in February. The Startup […]
Applications are opening for the business model competition of the Iowa Innovation Challenge, which will award $150,000 in prizes for startups associated with University of Iowa faculty, staff, students, alumni or Venture School alumni. The deadline to apply is March 31. More information is available online.
The DRI-Stack (Direct Routing Intelligence) system, a Haber Technologies Inc. product, was named the 2021 AE50 Award winner by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, the Iowa State University Startup Factory announced Wednesday. The DRI-Stack system was one of 51 products selected by the ASABE to represent innovations in engineering and technology for […]
Urbandale-based software development firm Lean TECHniques announced investment in Boon Logic, an autonomous machine learning company. Boon Logic offers two autonomous learning products: Amber, a predictive maintenance monitoring system that detects performance anomalies in equipment, and Avis, a form of visual inspection and quality assurance for manufacturing. Boon Logic and Lean TECHniques are exploring opportunities […]