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30/05/2023

We hope you had a great weekend. Just a reminder, NO Mug.News Community meeting today.

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17/05/2023

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05/05/2023

Scale VC Closes Fund II, Anchored By University Of Missouri System And Shelter Insurance

Previously published on Yahoo Finance  Scale VC, a Missouri-based venture capital fund and studio investing monetary and social capital in early-stage tech founders, announced it is expanding its support with a $5 million Fund II, the largest venture capital fund raised in the city to date. Ancho...

05/05/2023

Introducing: MOVE Venture Capital

MOVE Venture Capital is a new pre-seed and seed-stage fund focused on Nebraska and Midwest founders and startups. “Our goal is to have hundreds of founders building here, new investors investing here, and help drive tech creation and jobs which tend to follow as you build new companies. There is a...

29/04/2023

Ben Milne’s Brale Raises Seed Round From NEA

Ben Milne, the Des Moines serial entrepreneur, has started a new venture, Brale.  The company enables financial service customers to use both centralized and decentralized finance – managing assets on-chain.  Centralized finance is one of the key innovations of economics.  It basically is the b...

28/04/2023

Nebraska Startups Gaining Recognition In The Broader Tech Startup Industry

Two Nebraska tech startups are going through the prestigious Techstars Accelerators back-to-back showing momentum for tech in Nebraska.

28/04/2023

Big East, Big Ten – Which School’s Graduates Make The Most Money

I am a Creighton graduate – so take that with some level of bias.  But, the reason for this paper is driven by my university.  Recently, I was doom scrolling Twitter, and a fan from another Big East school put up the relative wages of the various Big East Schools.  Creighton’s Mid-Career scor...

27/04/2023

Startup Update – Hellcat Technologies, Inc.

Check out the previous Mug.News article here. Hellcat Technologies was founded in 2019 and plans to fully launch in Spring of 2023. They are currently rolling out their beta test and will use the feedback to launch their consumer grade product in the Spring. Hellcat Technologies is raising their sec...

26/04/2023

Registrations Are Open For The 10th Annual Midwest Entrepreneurship Conference

The Midwest Entrepreneurship Conference is an annual event in which participants will hear from successful entrepreneurs, network with like minded individuals, and participate in events for cash prizes. Anyone who is interested in entrepreneurship is encouraged to attend.  Your registration include...

03/03/2023

Your Weekend Warm Up | Mug.News -

Omaha, NE February 27, 2023 - One of Nebraska’s tech startup companies, Vesta, was in Minneapolis for the past four months. They were there to learn from the Minnesota Twins’ Accelerator by Techstars and hundreds of mentors across the professional sports industry. They recently presented at Demo...

02/03/2023

Novel Capital and Pipeline Entrepreneurs Partner to Make Non-Dilutive Capital More Accessible for Startups in the Midwest

Partnership will provide Pipeline Members with access to Novel Capital's Growth Platform