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…
by - March 20, 2024 6:57 am
Dexter Caffey, CEO and founder of software development company Smart Eye Technology Inc., participated in the fifth annual artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) cohort of Startup Junkie’s Fuel Accelerator….
by - March 18, 2024 7:22 pm
On the same day NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced in a broadly-watched speech new AI (artificial intelligence) “omniverse” products and services, Fort Smith-based ArcBest said it is a first-mover in…
by - March 18, 2024 11:18 am
The Arkansas State Broadband Office will launch its Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) mapping challenge process on Wednesday, March 20. The months-long process will enable stakeholders in Arkansas to…
by - March 13, 2024 6:48 pm
Conductor announced the opening of applications for the 8th cohort of its 10X Growth Accelerator program. Funding for the 10X Growth Accelerator is provided by the Arkansas Economic Development Commission,…
by - March 11, 2024 4:00 pm
Capitol lobbyist Susanna Watt has founded a new government relations and lobbying firm, Anchor Strategies, which will be located in Little Rock. The firm is a woman- and veteran-owned and…
by - March 11, 2024 3:03 pm
The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center (ASBTDC) at Arkansas State University will offer several opportunities in March for small business owners to learn about growing a business. Summits…
by - March 10, 2024 8:37 am
A joint venture between Springdale’s George family and Springdale business owner Joe Ehrhardt is partnering on a 47,900-square-foot Class A office building on the city’s west side. According to planning…
