Prairie Portraits: Xiaoqing Xie

Prairie Portraits: Corrine Wardian

The Prairie Portraits series features founders, funders and community builders from Nebraska's innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Prairie Portraits: Kristin Klaus

The Prairie Portraits series features founders, funders and community builders from Nebraska's innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Prairie Portraits: Taylor Korensky

The Prairie Portraits series features founders, funders and community builders from Nebraska's innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Applications open until Sept. 15 for UNL faculty to get funding to bridge research to commercialization

The new Innovation Advancement Fund at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is meant to help university innovations get developed enough that a startup or investor would want to work with it. Up to $20,000 per individual award is available for five-10 spots.

Mentors and new ventures: The continued legacies of Nebraska entrepreneurs following startup exits

Selling the company is often the end goal for startup founders. But their impacts in the ecosystems they call home carry on. Founders talked to SPN about their journey. Learn more about the developments and ongoing legacies of Quantified Ag, LifeLoop and LiveBy — local startups that were acquired in the early 2020s.