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NewBoCo announces $15,000 prize pool for ENTREFest pitch competition

NewBoCo has announced a $15,000 prize pool for the ENTREFest Pitch Competition at the annual entrepreneurship conference set for June 11-12 in downtown Iowa City. Now in its second year of partnership with Hy-Vee, the competition is open to Midwest-based…

NPR podcast host participating in NewBoCo virtual event

By CBJ News Staff [email protected] Cedar Rapids nonprofit NewBoCo has announced that Guy Raz, the…

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 –…

EntreFEST going virtual for 2020

By CBJ News Staff [email protected] EntreFEST, June’s two-day conference celebrating entrepreneurship and innovation, has announced…

Corridor orgs fire up 3D printers, CNCs to produce protective gear

3D printers provided by the Cedar Rapids Community School District pump out prototypes in the…

Celebrating the best of the Corridor’s C-suite

This year’s C-Suite Award winners, from left: Lucas Kuhlmann, ACT; Sue Freeman, GreenState Credit Union;…

2019 Chief Marketing Officer of the Year: Jessalyn Holdcraft

Jessalyn Holdcraft Director of Marketing NewBoCo Chief Marketing Officer of the Year – Nonprofit Nominated…

IDx secures $33M in funding as AI heats up

A patient experiences a screening by IDx’s AI-driven diagnostic system, IDx-DR, in an undated photo.…

Inside Iowa’s new innovation hotspot

The University of Iowa’s former Art Building, which was mothballed after being damaged in the…

Real Success with Nate Kaeding: David Tominsky

Nate Kaeding and ISA Managing Director David Tominsky at Caucho in Cedar Rapids. PHOTO ADAM…

Stoking the fires of nonprofit innovation

Girls With Ideas Founder and CEO Allison Poss works with Abbie Schneider at the Iowa…

How to be an angel investor (step one)

By Frank Camp / Guest Column You’ve finally got some money laying around that needs…

Why we’re launching Intrapreneur Academy

By Mandy Webber / Guest Opinion One of the biggest misconceptions about innovation is that…

Newest ISA teams focus on funerals, factories

Christopher Thomas (left) and Armani Goens of Funeral Direct started at the Iowa Startup Accelerator…

Aaron Horn named NewBoCo’s first COO

By Steve Gravelle [email protected] NewBoCo’s new chief operating officer looked up the Cedar Rapids-based inno­vation…