Des Moines StartupCity Des Moines, an early stage tech startup incubator in its second year, announced today the addition of two Des Moines startups to its group of residents. PosterZen, a web-based tool to create and order custom posters, came on board in November and PhoneBank.org … read more

Lincoln Invest Nebraska Corporation, a state-funded venture capital organization, recently announced it participated in a bridge financing round of Lincoln, Neb.-based Virtual Incision. Though the terms of the round were undisclosed, Invest Nebraska analyst Adam Hunke told Silicon Prairie News the organization contributed $500,000 (investments made by Invest Nebraska must be matched or exceeded by another capital … read more

Des Moines The Plains Angels, a Des Moines-based consortium of angel investors that came together in June last year, announced today … read more

Iowa City ActiveGrade, a startup established to help educators better track pupils' development, announced today it has signed an agreement to be acquired by Goshen, Ind.-based Haiku Learning Systems, a cloud-based learning management system. "With the incredible talent behind Haiku, we'll be able to take standards-based grading to new places that we simply didn't have the resources for until now," the company said in a written … read more

Kansas City A new app from Think Big Partners and Denver-based entrepreneur Adam Griffin promises to give users a hassle-free workout plan. "Gym costs, trainer fees, confidence barriers, time in the day," Griffin said. "Bodeefit was created to remove those barriers." … read more