Located in West Des Moines, the MidAmerican Energy Company RecPlex will feature 15 different sports facilities over 300,000 square feet. Once it’s opened this summer, RecPlex operators expect the center to welcome about 1,000 visitors on weekdays and up to 5,000 visitors on weekends, said Shayne Ratcliff, RecPlex general manager….
LightEdge, a provider of compliant cloud and colocation services, announced a partnership this week with FD-IX, a Midwest internet exchange company, to install an Internet Exchange node at the LightEdge Data Center in Altoona, making it the first interstate Internet Exchange and FD-IX node in the state. Organizations connected to…
Iowa founder Nancy Mwirotsi and philanthropist John Pappajohn. Pappajohn committed $100,000 and support from staff at the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center network to help Mwirotsi expand the 6-year-old tech education nonprofit Pi515 in Iowa. Contributed photo Early this fall, Des Moines founder Nancy Mwirotsi was surprised to take a call…
Rachel Gai, founder of RachelReloaded, wearing the “Comfort at Home” box scarf she designed for Iowa State University’s Women Who Create gift boxes now on sale. Photo by Rachel Gai In a normal year, Iowa State University takes a week at the end of October to host female entrepreneurs and…
Kemin Industries CEO Chris Nelson signs an agreement renewal in 2017 with Ertharin Cousin, then-executive director of the World Food Programme. Photo provided Starting around 4 a.m. on Oct. 9, Kemin Industries colleagues in Asia began pinging president and CEO Chris Nelson’s cell phone with the news: the United Nations…
A new system under development by Collins Aerospace will help U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aircrews transition from analog to cutting-edge digital vision systems that increase flight safety and mission effectiveness, the Corridor Business Journal reports. Work on the Enhanced Visual Acuity system is taking place at Collins Aerospace facilities…
At the morning keynote on June 4, NewBoCo Executive Director Eric Engelmann sat down at his computer with a plastic toy hand-clapper and gave it a good shake. The session’s “pre-standing ovation,” an EntreFEST tradition, would go on as planned — even over Zoom, with a sea of audience microphones…
The Ames Seed Capital Meeting and Luncheon will be held Tuesday, Nov. 10 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Gateway Hotel and Conference Center, Ames. More information and updates on the event are available online.
The Iowa Economic Development Board awarded an $100,000 loan from the Demonstration Fund to INSEER Inc., an Iowa City startup which develops software to prevent, predict and mitigate workplace injuries using computer vision and deep machine learning. The loan will go toward intellectual property development and evaluation, product refinement, key…
The Iowa Innovation Challenge awarded $81,000 to 65 businesses launched by University of Iowa faculty, staff, students and incubator startups during the inaugural elevator pitch competition, UI announced this week. The Iowa Innovation Challenge is a new partnership between the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (Iowa JPEC), the Office of the…