EDC Client Member Pear Deck Announces Investment from Growth Street Partners
Growth Street Partners announced an equity investment in Iowa City-based Pear Deck, provider of real-time classroom engagement software.
EDC Client Member Innovas Technologies Awarded Competitive Grant from the National Science Foundation
Coralville, IA, January 4, 2017–Innovas Technologies has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) gran for $225,000 to conduct research and development on work on developing mobile micro-sensors to identify degradation, fouling and enable remote failure detection and isolation in operating shell and tube heat exchangers.
Iowa Seed Fund II Invests in Coralville-Based VIDA Diagnostics
VIDA Diagnostics, Inc. (“VIDA”), the leader in precision pulmonary informatics, announced the completion of a $5.1 million Series B round of equity financing.
EDC President & CEO Named President of Iowa Venture Capital Association
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA—DECEMBER 7, 2016—Curt Nelson, President and CEO of Cedar Rapids-based business accelerator Entrepreneurial Development Center (EDC), Manager of Iowa Seed Funds I & II, has been named President of the Iowa Venture Capital Association (IVCA).
Cedar Rapids Start-Up Sergeant Sender™ Facilitates Easier Gifting to Active Military
Local college students develop online portal to simplify sending military care packages
EDC Member Innovas Technologies Develops New Solution
Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger fouling costs the US economy over $80B annually despite the long-established preventive maintenance habit of periodic manual cleaning. The Iowa manufacturing company, Innovas Technologies, develops state-of-the-art solutions to eliminate this problem in shell and tube heat exchangers through the full spectrum of heavy industry all the way down to comfort […]
EDC Members Repour and BeraTek Join Forces to Bring New Product to Market
BeraTek Industries is helping local entrepreneurs turn their ideas into reality. Positioned as a resource for those looking to manufacture a product, the Company offers “vertically integrated services.”
Hundreds of Entrepreneurs Attend EXPO to Celebrate Innovation in Iowa
Innovation EXPO 2016, held Wednesday, October 26th, drew a crowd of nearly 670 entrepreneurs, inventors, investors, business and community leaders from across the state.
Cedar Rapids Entrepreneur Tom Lutz Launches Repour™, An Innovative New Wine Saver
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA – OCTOBER 26, 2016– Tom Lutz, inventor of Repour, introduced his innovative new product to attendees at Innovative EXPO, held on October 26th at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Downtown Cedar Rapids.
Presenters Announced for PitchLab and Seed & Venture Forum at EXPO
Innovation EXPO is only one week away! Register to join us next Wednesday, October 26th at the DoubleTree in Cedar Rapids. This year’s EXPO is shaping up to be our largest yet with 98 Iowa-based exhibitors, 18 presenters (see list below) and hundreds of attendees from across the state.
