Nebraska Enterprise Fund adds new board members and honors John Munn for his service to the board

Chairman Winsley Durand III welcomed two new board members and a new advisory committee member during the recent Nebraska Enterprise Fund (NEF) annual Board of Directors meeting. New board members include Cassie Seagren, executive director of York County Development Corp., and Krista Dittman, Branched Oak Farm co-owner and entrepreneur. Shannon Filing, president of Transformational Marketing [...]

Pipeline Fellowship Applications Due Today

Application Deadline – Midnight, Oct. 29, 2012 Starting your own business is quite a task. You must build a financial base, select employees and develop a long-standing business platform. Pipeline helps innovators complete all these objectives and more. It’s a year-long entrepreneurial fellowship program in Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri. “We’re looking for entrepreneurs that are [...]

Invest Nebraska welcomes new chief executive, looks to invest in high-growth companies

  Invest Nebraska, a venture development organization founded in 2002 that advises and invests in innovative, growing and early-stage business ideas in Nebraska, welcomed its new chief executive and investment officer, Mark Crawford, to its operations in June. Crawford previously worked for SFI Financial, a Washington, D.C.-based venture capital firm. Crawford’s experience includes investing capital [...]

2 entrepreneurs will mentor, accelerate funding for NU startups

A new Startup Mentor and Accelerator Program has been initatied by NUtech Ventures to help identify and assist in the creation and incubation of new startup companies from the University of Nebraska. The program will be led by new Entrepreneur-in-Residence Brian Ardinger and NUtech Fellow Luke Smith. NUtech Ventures is the nonprofit organization responsible for [...]