Month: February 2015

Innovation Challenge 2015 Final Awards: the winning teams

The results are in! North Dakota State University’s Innovation Challenge 2015 concluded on Thursday with an Awards Luncheon and a total of $20,000 given to the ten winning teams. The…

Vidku startup raises $17 million in 17 days

It took Minneapolis-based startup Vidku only 17 days to raise $17 million in a Series A funding round led by Fargo-based venture capital firm Arthur Ventures, among other investors. The…

Emerging Prairie launches campaign to find first Executive Director

The Board of Directors of Emerging Prairie is excited to announce that they are officially launching their campaign to find and hire the first Executive Director of our organization. Details on…

Innovation Challenge Awards is today!

All of it – the brainstorming, the bootcamps, the presentations – it all comes down to this. This afternoon, at NDSU’s Innovation Challenge Awards Luncheon at the Fargodome, nine teams…

Startup Spotlight: Terri Zimmerman, CEO of Packet Digital

You might know Terri Zimmerman as the CEO of Packet Digital. She’s been CEO since September 2013, furthering their mission to achieve power savings through autonomous system-level power management (which…

On My Own video game reaches 100,000 users

Fargo game-makers Kyle Weik and Chad Close saw instant popularity when they released their On My Own video game last January; today, not two months later, their 2D adventure game…

Cloud-based solution for marketing software is first of its kind

It started over chips and salsa, just a few months ago. Kari Peterson and Amy McKinnon, old friends and long time co-workers at Microsoft, were sitting at Mexican Village and…

Adaptive-track wheelchair developed by college student

Micah Johnson has been in a wheelchair for seven years. He was born with muscular dystrophy and could walk until 9th grade, before a few bad falls made a wheelchair…

RFID tech at North Dakota State makes paper as smart as your phone

Imagine a normal business card; paper-thin, with a logo and a name, perhaps. Now imagine that business card is tagged with near field communication (NFC) and radio-frequency identification (RFID), that…

CoSchedule to present at Google Demo Day 2015

Bismarck-based startup CoSchedule has been selected by Google for Entrepreneurs to present in Silicon Valley at Google Demo Day 2015 on April 2. Yes, the same Demo Day that is…