Techstars, a national network of accelerators and a venture capital firm, is partnering with Grinnell College to launch Techstars Iowa, to be located in Des Moines. Des Moines entrepreneur and former interim director for the Iowa AgriTech Accelerator Kerty Levy has joined as managing director of Techstars Iowa, which has yet to settle on a physical […]
View video of the AR sandbox at work here: http://bit.ly/2BmgOdL Photo by Kate Hayden; video provided by the UI 3D Club University of Iowa senior Cody Wilson stood on the second floor of the Science Center of Iowa. He held his palm flat above a bed of sand long enough for the rain to swell, […]
A new class-action lawsuit filed against Hy-Vee claims the midwestern chain’s recent data breach was the “inevitable result” of inadequate data security despite growing threats against payment card systems. Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLP (CSK&D) alleges that Hy-Vee “failed to take adequate measures to assist affected customers, choosing instead to spread out information about […]
As Lauren Jones grew up in rural Iowa, she watched her extended family lose options for groceries one by one. Jones grew up in Clarinda, a town of about 5,000 people served by two grocery stores, but most of her extended family was based in nearby Hamburg, which had fewer than 1,100 residents by the […]
U.S. Cellular will first launch the company’s 5G network in Iowa and Wisconsin during the first quarter of 2020, the company announced this week. The launch will be the first phase of the company’s multiyear network expansion, and will be available in 140 communities across Iowa, including Ames, Ankeny, Bettendorf, Boone, Carroll, Cedar Falls, Cedar […]
Kimle Aquaculture LLC received a $100,000 investment through the Wellmark Venture Capital Fund and an additional $100,000 Demonstration Fund loan from the Iowa Economic Development Authority, reports the Iowa State University Startup Factory. Iowa-based Kimle Aquaculture was a cohort six member of the ISU Startup Factory developing new solutions for indoor fish production to lower […]
Valentine Food Co., based in Indianola, is launching the Iowa Market, a marketing and distribution division supporting small food product vendors with a national platform to promote and sell through. The newly launched online market has about 12 brands for sale. The market is designed to support small vendors without the burden of delivering their own […]
The Technology Association of Iowa, Nyemaster Goode and Iowa State University Startup Factory will hold a forum on global intellectual property protection Oct. 21 at the Iowa State University Research Park. The Global Innovation Forum will open with a presentation by Bill Adamowski, president of the ISU Startup Factory, and will include a networking hour from leaders […]
Anders Sörman-Nilsson was a lawyer before he became an internationally-known futurist, author and public speaker on the TEDGlobal circuit. His mother, who still runs the family menswear business in Stockholm, Sweden, still thinks of him as a “glorified astrologer,” Sörman-Nilsson told the audience at this week’s Iowa Technology Summit during the keynote. “There’s no one […]
Hy-Vee Inc. released a new database for shoppers worried their credit or debit card information may be at risk from the payment data breach first reported on Aug. 14. An investigation found malware designed to access payment card data from cards used at point-of-sale (POS) devices at Hy-Vee fuel pumps, drive-thru coffee shops, and restaurants, […]