April 30, 2013 by Geoff Wood
It's once again a great opportunity to thank the following organizations who have sponsored our news blog this month. | New sponsors starting this month: CoSentry … read more
April 30, 2013 by Geoff Wood
April 30, 2013 by Fred Bauters
Kansas City The women won, in a way, at the Hack of the Sexes hackathon last Friday and Saturday. But it was much more about the two sexes coming together to create tech solutions for civic problems. Kelly Tomlinson, a web designer at Cremalab, led the grand-prize winning team … read more
April 30, 2013 by Fred Bauters
Kansas City True to form, individuals volunteering their time and talent made the first video to highlight the Kansas City Startup Village. Matthew Marcus, co-founder of the Startup Village, thanked the "give first, get later" actions of those involved in creating "the first KCSV video helping outsiders (and insiders) better understand just what is happening in this part … read more
April 30, 2013 by Guest Contributor
Omaha Oxide is honored to have had the opportunity to work with the fine people over at Silicon Prairie News for all five years of Big Omaha. During this time, the Giant Cow has taken on a variety of forms. From the literal Giant Cow illustrations of year one and two, to the completely conceptual letters to the Cow of year four. For this year, we wanted to capture the feeling of being the next big thing. Of being glamorous and—dare we say—fabulous. Taking our … read more
April 30, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Des Moines Des Moines-based Dwolla today announced it closed a $16.5 million Series C round led by Andreessen Horowitz, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based venture capital firm whose portfolio includes Airbnb, Pinterest and Stripe, another payments startup. Three of Dwolla's previous investors, Village Ventures, Thrive Capital and Union Square Ventures, also participated … read more
April 30, 2013 by Fred Bauters
Kansas City Kansas City native and Think Big Partners entrepreneur-in-residence Chris Shaw has secured the support of two local corporate titans, Hallmark Cards and Sprint, as he prepares to embark on a cross-country adventure to produce a documentary—through … read more
April 30, 2013 by Fred Bauters
Kansas City In its quest to reinvent the mobile search experience, Kansas City, Mo., startup Leap2 today announced it closed a $1.6 million round of funding and launched the latest version of its iOS and Android apps. Since its start more than two years ago, Leap2's interface and functionality has evolved as the team tries "to reimagine what search is," director of product Tyler VanWinkle recently told Silicon Prairie News. In the new version … read more
April 29, 2013 by Brittany Mascio & Caleb Ulffers
Omaha Turning former inmates into entrepreneurs, creating an online social space for dogs, growing mushrooms in a kitchen and taking an email inbox to zero are just a few of the tasks performed by the companies of our Big Omaha 2013 speakers. To help you get to know the speakers better we've rounded up their bios, compiled recent media and linked to their Twitter handles and company websites. … read more
