The Techstars Iowa Accelerator announced on LinkedIn Feb. 1 that the program is taking a pause. Kerty Levy, who has led the program for the last three years, has accepted the role of managing director of the Techstars Boston Accelerator, according to BostInno, in addition to joining the Techstars Crypto Boston Accelerator as its managing director last summer. A total […]

At the Iowa AgriTech Accelerator’s second annual AgTech Day, nine agritech startups – mostly from Iowa, and two from Nebraska and California – jumped at the chance to meet the experts. Some of the founders have bootstrapped their business off the ground for initial sales. Others were seeking insight on some of their early product […]

Former executive director Megan Vollstedt has left the Iowa AgriTech Accelerator to begin as the Agronomy & Technology Editor at Successful Farming, a Meredith Corp. publication. Vollstedt, who began at Successful Farming last week, was the first director at the Iowa AgriTech Accelerator. The accelerator launched the first cohort in 2017 and selects six international […]