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Health & Medical Innovation Summit

Following on the heels of our May 5th Aging 2.0 event, we are holding our sixth Innovation Summit this Spring focusing on Healthcare, Medical, & Biomedical on May 6th. The event brings together health-related startups, corporate leaders at hospitals, home health agencies, health technology companies and investors in the healthTech space.

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Announcing Aging2.0 Cedar Rapids Chapter Launch and Startup Pitch Event

Cedar Rapids is the newest chapter of Aging2.0, a global organization focused on accelerating innovation to improve the lives of older adults around the world. With more than 30 chapters in cities like Beijing, Barcelona, and Seattle, the Cedar Rapids chapter brings a heavy emphasis on these critical issues to

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Supporting women investors in Iowa

Our approach at NewBoCo has been to identify constraints on our startup ecosystem, prioritize them, and then knock them down (or at least make a major dent) wherever possible. We’ve done this already by building a long-term technical talent pipeline, helping corporate partners develop new ideas, fostering diversity in our

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The right kind of housing to foster entrepreneurship

You probably know there’s a lot going on in entrepreneurship in our community right now: we have a world class accelerator program, a fantastic coworking space, a constant stream of events like Startup Weekend and 1 Million Cups, and much more. Now, we’re gearing up to address another kind of

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Manufacturing Innovation Summit

We’re excited. Our second innovation summit is Friday, March 25. Manufacturing and engineering startups and industry experts will come together for a day of collisions between the seasoned and the startups. The first innovation summit was an experiment and the results proved successful. Thirty industry experts heard what startups in

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Food & Ag Innovation Summit

At NewBoCo, we’re all about collisions between people who get things done. Our latest approach is the Innovation Summit Series, seven summits focused on bringing startups, investors and industry leaders together, all from a narrow industry sector. The summits are focused on the sectors of: Food and agriculture (2/19) Manufacturing

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Blackstone Charitable Foundation Awards Innovation Grant to Iowa Startup Accelerator

Media Contact Jessalyn Holdcraft, Marketing & Communications Coordinator jessalyn@iowastartupaccelerator.com Cedar Rapids, IA, February 8, 2016 Blackstone Charitable Foundation Awards Innovation Grant to Iowa Startup Accelerator Iowa Startup Accelerator is one of 13 organizations to receive a Blackstone Innovation Grant from the Blackstone Charitable Foundation. The Blackstone Innovation Grant program supports

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