Matt Gantz

Startup Community Pillars: The Offutt School of Business makes community connections

Setting the firm foundations of great entrepreneurial communities are businesses, organizations, and individuals who are keenly involved and working in the shadows. They ensure the entire community is able to…

1 Million Cups Fargo hits The Stage at Island Park

As 1 Million Cups Fargo moved to a temporary, larger venue last week, the event was also fortunate enough to host some special visitors. Friends from Brookings, South Dakota, traversed…

Fargo sixth graders beat top university investors with BreadVault

Due to the recent success of a crack team of investors, all of whom coincidentally are in the sixth grade at Oak Grove Lutheran School in Fargo, today Emerging Prairie…

CoSchedule lands $500K angel round investment

Todaymade announced yesterday that its spinout project, CoSchedule, has just finished a funding round with the result of $500,000 in angel investments. As a previously featured startup on Emerging Prairie,…

Emerging Prairie's new resource needs YOUR input

Emerging Prairie was inspired by a pretty neat idea from the startup community in St. Louis. In an effort to better manage the many startup events of Fargo, Emerging Prairie…

An update on the Dakota Fiber Initiative

At the end of last week, Gary Inman, President, and Deana Wiese, Executive Director, of the Information Technology Council of North Dakota released a memo to stakeholders outlining the Dakota…

Fargo Brewing Company loosens up 1 Million Cups Fargo

A spirited group participated in 1 Million Cups Fargo last week, powered by cups of coffee and Fargo Brewing Company’s Aaron Hill. Aaron set a new precedent by providing all…

Health Pitch: An interview with SwipeSense CEO Mert Iseri

Almost one year ago a man named Mert Iseri described his company SwipeSense at Fargo’s Health Pitch in partnership with Family HealthCare. Since then, the hospital-oriented company has exploded with…

TEDxFargo announces speaker lineup

The organizing committee for TEDxFargo and TEDxYouth@Fargo unveiled its 2014 agenda at the Loretta Building in downtown Fargo yesterday evening. Following a series of sneak peeks via the event’s Facebook…

Rethinking data with new startup ZulaFly

Emerging Prairie enjoys interviewing and boasting about the Fargo area’s new businesses, especially ones in their infancies. This time, the partners of ZulaFly were in the hot seat to show…