It’s been a big week for the Iowa Startup Accelerator! Recently, we announced the three teams that we accepted into the summer batch of our 2017 cohort, and we started a How to Start a Startup program to help new entrepreneurs learn about the basics of entrepreneurship. We’re very excited
Media contact: Jessalyn Holdcraft, NewBoCo Director of Marketing Email: jessalyn@newbo.co Phone: 319.382.5128 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, June 19, 2017 – Iowa Startup Accelerator accepted three companies into the summer batch of its 2017 cohort: Agro Connected, Cargofy, and GOVRED Technologies. Team: Agro Connected Team members: Ryan Weekly, CEO; Kyle Rittmer, CFO;
June 13, 2017, Cedar Rapids, IA – NewBoCo, in partnership with Code.org, will be supporting 32 teachers in teaching computer science in schools throughout Iowa. The teachers accepted are from every corner of Iowa, representing both rural and urban school districts. A few school districts have teachers from both middle
Media contact: Jessalyn Holdcraft, NewBoCo jessalyn@newbo.co NewBoCo partners with Iowa BIG, Scrum Alliance to bring AgileEDU to Iowa educators AgileEDU focuses on rethinking the 21st century classroom and giving educators Agile learning to utilize in their classrooms CEDAR RAPIDS, IA, June 1, 2017 – NewBoCo has partnered with Iowa BIG and Scrum
EntreFEST: The Largest Gathering of Iowa’s Entrepreneurial and Innovation Community Conference/Festival Hosted in Iowa City, Entrepreneur Magazine’s #2 City for Entrepreneurs MEDIA CONTACTS: Melissa McCarville Economic Alliance 319.730.1415 (direct & cell) mmccarville@cedarrapids.org Jessalyn Holdcraft NewBoCo jessalyn@newbo.co CEDAR RAPIDS – Entrepreneurs and innovators from across the Midwest will converge in Iowa
Last night, the NewBoCo team attended the annual Prometheus Awards put on by the Technology Association of Iowa (TAI). Having been a long-time member of the organization, and a current board member, I’ve been attending this event since the very beginning 12 years ago. Back then, it was maybe a hundred
Media Contact: Jessalyn Holdcraft, NewBoCo Director of Marketing Email: jessalyn@newbo.co Phone: 319.382.5128 Cedar Rapids, IA, April 20, 2017 — On April 12 NewBoCo held the Aging2.0 Cedar Rapids chapter pitch competition. Feltes One Way, a company focused on creating anti-rollback technology for manual wheelchairs, won the competition. “It felt exciting
In a recent WalletHub study on the most innovative states, Iowa ranked 44th . The ranking was based on R&D spending, patents, entrepreneurial activity, venture capital activity and other factors. While we could quibble about the ranking itself, there’s no doubt there’s a significant opportunity for improvement in our region’s
NewBoCo started out as just the Iowa Startup Accelerator, but we knew early on that it would take more than a startup accelerator to fulfill our mission: accelerating world-changing ideas, from Iowa. Startups need more than an accelerator to succeed, and ecosystems need more support than an accelerator alone can
[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]Media Contact: Jessalyn Holdcraft, NewBoCo Director of Marketing Email: jessalyn@newbo.co Phone: 319.382.5128 Girls code camp returns for second year GirlsCode++ is a day-long camp to teach girls how to code April 6, 2017, Cedar Rapids, IA – NewBoCo’s girls code camp, GirlsCode++, returns for a second year
