by - April 25, 2024 10:07 am
Kansas City, Mo.-based Right to Start, a national nonprofit organization focused on advancing entrepreneurship, has hired Jeannette Balleza Collins of Fayetteville to lead initiatives in America’s heartland. According to a news release…
by - April 24, 2024 2:28 pm
Telo, a student startup from the University of Minnesota, won the 2024 Heartland Challenge. The fifth-annual competition took place April 11-13 at Ledger in downtown Bentonville and was hosted by…
by - April 21, 2024 6:42 pm
The Women’s Foundation of Arkansas (WFA) is seeking candidates for the fifth Women’s Economic Mobility Hub (WEM Hub) cohort. The six-month program supports Black women-owned businesses by providing technical assistance…
by - April 21, 2024 8:24 am
RyLeigh Werner, a University of Arkansas student, started a tutoring company last year to help students with their business classes. Werner is director of the student advisory board and program…
by - April 19, 2024 1:41 pm
Fayetteville-based Startup Junkie, in partnership with Stout Street Capital, 412 Angels, Startup NWA and other regional collaborators, will host the first-ever Northwest Arkansas-based VC Day. It will take place Wednesday…
by - April 16, 2024 4:43 pm
The National Institute of Health awarded $3.2 million to Arkansas Children’s and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to innovate new treatment options for children with rare vascular conditions….
by - April 16, 2024 10:41 am
Technology startup Xtremis, in collaboration with the University of Arkansas, has plans to open a first-of-its-kind innovation campus for the rapid advancement of electromagnetic spectrum technologies. It’s expected to position…
by - April 16, 2024 5:33 am
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UA Little Rock) has received $5 million in federal funding aimed at enhancing cybersecurity in the energy sector through education, workforce development, and…
by - April 15, 2024 9:03 am
Cortado Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm in Oklahoma City with more than $110 million in assets under management (AUM), will host its second annual Midcontinent Venture Capital Summit on May…
by - April 10, 2024 2:11 pm
Deb Williams has spent most of her career in higher education, beginning in the late ‘90s when she was a graduate student at the University of Arkansas. She started in…
by - April 9, 2024 9:15 pm
The Delta Center for Economic Development (DCED), on the campus of Arkansas State University, will host an entrepreneurship training series in April. The three-part series will begin on April 11,…
by - April 3, 2024 5:12 pm
The Arkansas State Broadband Office has received approval for its Digital Skills and Opportunity Plan from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). In 2022, the…
by - April 3, 2024 12:24 pm
The Venture Center is partnering with Economics Arkansas and Ohio-based Young Entrepreneur Institute to host the first-ever Northwest Arkansas Pitch ‘N Punch competition on May 23 at Scott Family Amazeum…
by - April 3, 2024 12:21 pm
Arkansas nonprofits can apply April 1 through May 1 for $5,000 grants through an employee-funded giving program, Cox Charities. Nonprofits that serve Cox’s service areas, including communities in Northwest Arkansas,…
by - April 3, 2024 10:04 am
Crisp, the open data retail tech firm headquartered in New York, has hired Dirk Herdes of Rogers as senior vice president of sales and general manager for its growing Northwest…
by - April 2, 2024 12:55 pm
Nine military veterans turned entrepreneurs — including a handful from Northwest Arkansas — recently presented their business ventures in downtown Little Rock as part of an inaugural accelerator program designed…
by - March 27, 2024 11:14 am
UAMS’ BioVentures has launched the ACTIVE Program in partnership with Little Rock-based The Venture Center to give socially and economically disadvantaged innovators (SEDI) in healthcare and technology opportunities to develop…
by - March 25, 2024 1:04 pm
The Arkansas Economic Development Commission awarded the contract to manage the Arkansas Statewide Technology Commercialization Center to Startup Junkie Consulting of Fayetteville. The new contract is initially for 16 months for…
by - March 21, 2024 3:01 pm
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin announced Thursday (March 21) that his office is investigating Change Healthcare, Inc., which was hit with a major ransomware cyberattack in February. Change Healthcare, a…
by - March 21, 2024 7:58 am
In February, serial entrepreneur Eric Howerton opened a podcast studio in Rogers’ Pinnacle Hills area. The studio provides everything needed to make a professional podcast. PodcastVideos.com is the name of…
