EnGeniousAg Awarded $100,000 USDA Grant to Develop Soil and Water Sensors to Measure Nitrate Concentrations for Improved Nitrogen Management
EnGeniousAg, LLC is developing field-based nutrient sensors for crops, soils and water to improve agronomic management practices. A $100,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture will allow the company to develop...
EnGeniousAg Awarded Competitive Grant from the National Science Foundation to Develop Low-Cost In-Planta Nitrate Sensor
(L-R) EnGeniousAg Operations Manager Xinran Wang, Co-founder and Chief Agronomist Michael J. Castellano, Ph.D. and Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Liang Dong, Ph.D. are part of the team developing an in-planta sensor for monitoring nitrate...
Gross-Wen Technologies, Inc. Named 2019 Prometheus Awards Startup Technology Company of the Year
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DES MOINES, Iowa — Ames-based startup company, Gross-Wen Technologies (GWT), was named the Startup Technology Company of the Year during the Technology Association of Iowa’s 2019 Prometheus Awards Thursday night. The Startup award recognizes an...
IowaBio announces open application period for Biotech Innovation Showcase
IowaBio announced they are accepting applications October 1, 2018 through January 2, 2019 for the Biotech Innovation Showcase as part of the Partnering for Growth investor conference and industry forum that joins innovators, investors and biotech leaders together over...
Nebullam awarded $100,000 in Demonstration Funds
AMES, Iowa (September 25, 2018) – The Iowa State University Startup Factory (SUF) today announced the Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) board has awarded Nebullam $100,000 in innovation funds as recommended by the Technology Commercialization Committee....
ISU Startup Factory graduate Tractor Zoom awarded $15,000 in John Pappajohn Iowa Entrepreneurial Venture Competition
AMES, Iowa (September 20, 2018) – The Iowa State University Startup Factory (SUF) today announced Tractor Zoom earned third place and the $15,000 prize in the 2018 John Pappajohn Iowa Entrepreneurial Venture Competition. Tractor Zoom, located in West Des Moines,...
Startups to compete in the 13th Annual John Pappajohn Iowa Entrepreneurial Venture Competition
Seven startups with Iowa State ties advance to the finals round, vie for top prizes Twelve startups have been selected to present their business plan concepts to a panel of judges during the 13th Annual John Pappajohn Iowa Entrepreneurial Venture Competition being...
Imagine starting a science-based business: One student’s experience at ISU Startup Factory
If you had $5,000 to design a learning experience for yourself anywhere in the world, what would you do? That’s the question posed to Imagine Fellows at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. For Zach Martin, a senior physics major at the college, the answer was to spend...
