KENT subsidiary Grain Processing Corporation acquires Natural Products Inc.
By CBJ News Staff -July 7, 2022 Gage Kent, KENT Corporation Chairman and CEO with son and fourth-generation leadership, Jimmy Kent at Natural Products, Inc., a new member of the KENT family of companies, in Grinnell, Iowa. Grain Processing Corporation (GPC), a member...Mazen Animal Health, Inc. Raises $11.2M Series A to Advance Safer, Cost-effective Animal Ag
Ames, IA. May 25, 2022. Mazen, an animal health company developing novel oral vaccines, announced today the closing of its Series A round of over $11M. The round was led by Fall Line Capital and joined by all the Seed investors, including Next Level Ventures, Kent...
REGIONAL LEADERS SET TO PARTICIPATE IN MIT REGIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACCELERATOR PROGRAM
GREATER DES MOINES, IA (May 20, 2022) – The Greater Des Moines (DSM) and Amesregion has been selected to be part of the prestigious MIT Regional EntrepreneurshipAccelerator Program (REAP) to help drive entrepreneurship in the region. The program is a two-year training...
Winners of the 2022 Pappajohn Student Entrepreneurial Venture Competition
Three prizes in the amount of $5,000 have been given to the winners of the of the 2022 Pappajohn Student Entrepreneurial Venture Competition held remotely in late April.The winning entries were chosen based on their presentations, the viability of their plans and...
Stacy Dreyer: The New Research Park Team Member
Stacy grew up in Algona, Iowa. She began her undergrad at Iowa State University and later transferred to Minot State University to marry her husband, who was stationed at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota. They moved back to the Ames area in 1997 and have loved...
Innovation at Work: By the Numbers
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Workiva Inc. Strengthens its Transparent Reporting Leadership Position with the Acquisition of ParsePort
AMES, Iowa–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Workiva Inc. (NYSE:WK), the company powering transparent reporting for a better world, announced today that it has acquired Denmark-based ParsePort. The acquisition strengthens Workiva’s leadership position in XBRL and Inline...
New Addition to the ISURP Team: Bethany Zeman
Bethany Zeman has recently joined the Iowa State University Research Park as an administrative assistant. She is a native of Ames, Iowa, and after her graduation from Iowa State University in 2011, Zeman spent several years in Colorado working in different fields,...