Iowa Startup Accelerator

NewBoCo’s Iowa Startup Accelerator to relaunch this fall
After a two-year hiatus, the Iowa Startup Accelerator is returning this fall with a renewed focus on helping Iowa-based startups strengthen their branding, marketing, and sales strategies. The seven-week program, operated by the New Bohemian Innovation Collaborative (NewBoCo), begins in…
Long-planned NewBo housing project proceeding with new name, new developer
A previously-planned 110-unit housing development near Cedar Rapids’ NewBo neighborhood is moving ahead with a…

Alex Taylor named managing director of ISA
IMAGE: Alex Taylor By CBJ News Staff [email protected] Alex Taylor has been named the new…

Capital infusion
By Katharine Carlon [email protected] Over six years, the Cedar Rapids-based New Bohemian Innovation Collaborative –…

Stoking the fires of nonprofit innovation
Girls With Ideas Founder and CEO Allison Poss works with Abbie Schneider at the Iowa…

ISA alum Apartment Ocean finds success with chatbots
Nick Kljaic (left) and Junjie Shi created the leading real estate chatbot business now known…

Newest ISA teams focus on funerals, factories
Christopher Thomas (left) and Armani Goens of Funeral Direct started at the Iowa Startup Accelerator…

Cargofy wants to be in every owner-operator’s phone
Cargofy founder Stakh Vozniak and COO Nataliia Vozniak, shown in the ISA’s workspace on a…

Corridor’s biggest business stories of 2017 (so far)
Compiled by Dave DeWitte and Adam Moore A SEASON FOR MERGERS Rockwell primed the…

Corridor Angel Investors aim to give startups a boost
NewBoCo Executive Director Eric Engelmann discusses the Corridor Angel Investors group on March 10 in…

NewBoCo goes virtual with Vault Labs
Troy Miller, director of strategic partnerships at the Iowa BIG School, experiments with the Microsoft…

Women gain momentum at Iowa Startup Accelerator
Girls With Ideas Founder and CEO Allison Poss works with Abbie Schneider, GWI’s director of…

Accelerated progress in the Corridor
Meegan Hofmeister (left) and Emily Carlson of Cedar Rapids-based Written Apparel, shown at the Iowa…

ISA kicks off 2015 cohort with focus on speed
By Adam Moore [email protected] CEDAR RAPIDS—The 2015 cohort of the Iowa Startup Accelerator kicked off…

Iowa Startup Accelerator grads show off their progress
By Adam Moore Maybe it was the animated rockets set in a continual launch pattern…
