Tag: Iowa Startup Accelerator
Site work under way for NewBo Lofts housing project
Construction is under way on the NewBo Lofts housing development in southeast Cedar Rapids – a project several years in the making.
Ben Weber, director...
Three companies join Iowa Startup Accelerator
The Iowa Startup Accelerator (ISA) has added Haggle, Groov, and Sprayer Mods to its six-month entrepreneurial development program.
The three startups join Tennis Line Call,...
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 different name – and under a new developer.
On its...
Alex Taylor named managing director of ISA
IMAGE: Alex Taylor
By CBJ News Staff
newsroom@corridorbusiness.com
Alex Taylor has been named the new managing director of the Iowa Startup Accelerator (ISA).
Mr. Taylor, an entrepreneur, business...
Capital infusion
By Katharine Carlon
katharine@corridorbusiness.com
Over six years, the Cedar Rapids-based New Bohemian Innovation Collaborative – better known as NewBoCo – has helped shepherd more than 40...
Stoking the fires of nonprofit innovation
Girls With Ideas Founder and CEO Allison Poss works with Abbie Schneider at the Iowa Startup Accelerator in 2016. Organizations like Girls With Ideas...
ISA alum Apartment Ocean finds success with chatbots
Nick Kljaic (left) and Junjie Shi created the leading real estate chatbot business now known as Apartment Ocean while living in Cedar Rapids and...
Newest ISA teams focus on funerals, factories
Christopher Thomas (left) and Armani Goens of Funeral Direct started at the Iowa Startup Accelerator last month. PHOTO DAVE DEWITTE
By Dave DeWitte
dave@corridorbusiness.com
CEDAR RAPIDS—The two...
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 recent morning. PHOTO DAVE DEWITTE
By Dave DeWitte
dave@corridorbusiness.com
The life of...
Corridor’s biggest business stories of 2017 (so far)
Compiled by Dave DeWitte and Adam Moore
A SEASON FOR MERGERS
Rockwell primed the Corridor’s recent M&A storm by completing its $8.3 billion acquisition of North...