Tag: startups
ISA Ventures partnership launches health care investment fund
A partnership between ISA Ventures and managed care nonprofit CareSource is creating an investment fund for startups to improve health care outcomes.
The Ohio-based organization...
Corridor, Quad Cities fall in 2022 Startup City rankings
Rankings from Midwest Startups, a job and news website for startups in the Midwest region, downgraded all five Iowa cities in its 2022 rankings.
Iowa...
Report: Iowa entrepreneurship levels yet to recover after pandemic
Iowa has not experienced a rebound in entrepreneurship activity following the pandemic, according to a new Indicators of Entrepreneurship report from the Kauffman Foundation.
That...
University of Iowa startups featured in Science Coalition report
A growing number of Iowa-based companies trace their roots to federally funded University of Iowa research that helps them create jobs, generate wages, boost...
ContinuumAg heads to Memphis for ag accelerator
ContinuumAg founder and CEO Mitchell Hora, who will lead the Washington-based startup through AgLaunch365 accelerator. CREDIT TWITTER
By Adam Moore
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A Washington-based soil testing company is...
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. The system is the first of its kind to...
Coworking space tempts tenants with health insurance
A drop-in workspace next to the coffee counter at Office Evolution in Cedar Rapids. PHOTO SARAH BANOWETZ
By Dave DeWitte
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A new office rental and coworking...
3 Questions with Alexis Ohanian, Reddit founder
By Dave DeWitte
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He founded the enormously popular website Reddit, married tennis champion Serena Williams, and was proclaimed “Mayor of the Internet” by Forbes –...
Real Success with Nate Kaeding: David Tominsky
Nate Kaeding and ISA Managing Director David Tominsky at Caucho in Cedar Rapids. PHOTO ADAM MOORE
By Nate Kaeding
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Ed. note: Sponsored by West Bank, this...
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...