Ankeny-based QA Graphics and Ames-based Solvent Web are partnering to create QA Web, a new web development and design service aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. The new partnership aims to offer affordable new websites to help smaller companies stand out. QA Graphics specializes in system graphics and custom marketing…
Junior Luz Bautista sat in the Des Moines Social Club with her East High School classmates on March 29, their first day of audio class.Bautista doesn’t have any experience with audio production, although she’s been involved in play productions, producing the annual fashion runway event and Movement 515, a spoken…
What started as a toilet joke may propel a team of ten middle school students to the Global Innovation Award competition in San Jose, California. Students at Oak Ridge Middle School in the Linn-Mar school district are nominated for their work developing a toilet that can store and deodorize urine…
Students from four area high schools and four Iowa colleges and universities will be on display at the Drake University Olmsted Center, April 12 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The 15th annual Drake University Conference on Undergraduate Research will showcase student work from Drake, Grand View University, Des Moines…
Diagnostic research firm IDx is moving up in facilities to Coralville as it prepares to enter the U.S. marketplace, reports the Corridor Business Journal. The company was previously based in Iowa City. IDx recently made headlines when the FDA granted expedited review of IDx-DR, an AI-based diagnostic system for autonomous…
Startup Stories DSM is rebranding – as a new podcast. The live event hosted by the Greater Des Moines Partnership launched its first episode on March 26, and will be released twice a month, hosted by Executive Director Mike Colwell and Christina Moffat, Director of Small Business Resources. It launched…
Iowa State University, in cooperation with the City of Cedar Rapids, has released a report identifying new, emerging technologies that could be a starting point for increased economic activity, jobs and start-up companies in the city’s agricultural and bioprocessing industries. The Cedar Rapids Food and Bioprocessors Manufacturing Report is an…
Aubrey Alvarez is not an app developer. But as executive director at Eat Greater Des Moines, Alvarez saw what the stakes were without an efficient solution to connect food “waste” from potential donors, like event planners or caterers, to potential recipients, including nonprofits and school pantries. Alvarez and the board…
As Executive Director of Entrepreneurial Initiatives, Mike Colwell at the Greater Des Moines Partnership knows what draws an audience to networking and business-building events. “People tend to like t-shirts,” Colwell said. So for Accelerate DSM on April 5, the Greater Des Moines Partnership turned to Mike Draper of Raygun, seeking…
The Dwolla-sponsored event Monetery raised $10,265 for an after-school coding education program, Dwolla announced on Tuesday. More than 250 participants attended as panels of investors, entrepreneurs and community members explored what it takes to create value and diversity in the midwestern business community. All money raised was donated to Pi515,…