Divshot, a team that came together at Startup Weekend Kansas City last April, isn't slowing down. After building a prototype in its first 48 hours of existence, three months later it went on to win a Los Angeles pitch competition in July. The next month, it entered San Monica startup accelerator Launchpad LA. Today, less than a month after graduating from the accelerator, it announced it closed a $1.1 million … read more

Des Moines With today's news that Dropbox acquired Mailbox—check out the Wall Street Journal for the full story—we're re-releasing our video of the San Francisco startup's co-founder, Gentry Underwood, speaking at our Des Moines event this past October. "I think one of the best examples out there right now of a startup that focuses is Dropbox," … read more

Kansas City Google on Thursday told residents in its first "fiberhood," Hanover Heights in Kansas City, Kan., that it reopened Google Fiber registration for two weeks. "Many properties didn't realize the impact and value of Fiber before the initial registration period was closed," Kansas City Startup Village leader Adam Arredondo (right) said Thursday in an email … read more

Kansas City EyeVerify has even better vision than before as it starts a private beta program to test its mobile authentication software. The Kansas City, Mo. startup whose software scans a user's "eyeprint"—the blood veins pattern in the whites of one's eyes—to authenticate their use of a mobile device, recently announced results from a test of its technology. Collected by Purdue University's Biometric Standards … read more

Austin Turns out Kansas City, Mo.-based Phone2Action truly was dialed in at the South by Southwest Interactive Accelerator on Tuesday. The mobile advocacy startup outdueled seven early-stage companies to win the News Technologies category after two rounds of presentations. Co-founders Jeb Ory and Ximena Hartsock will head home with $4,000, two tickets to next year's SXSW Interactive, free web hosting for a year, an Apple TV and more … read more

Lincoln Hurrdat founder and CEO Blake Lawrence on Tuesday received the "New Company Entrepreneur Award" at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Distinguished Entrepreneur Awards, part of the EntrepreneuringDays@UNL event. Lawrence graduated from UNL in 2009 and went on to … read more

Austin You just spent hours at a rally getting fired up about a cause you believe in. The speeches, music and camaraderie with fellow supporters has you ready to act. Now what? Kansas City, Mo. startup Phone2Action took the South by Southwest Interactive Accelerator stage today to convince the audience its toolbox of mobile advocacy engagement is the answer. The startup's co-founders, Jeb Ory and Ximena Hartsock, used Startup Act 3.0 … read more

Omaha A LinkedIn message between two Omahans nine months ago resulted in an announcement today of an $11.2 million acquisition. The company making the acquisition, Scottsdale, Ariz.-based … read more