Marisa Jackels

NDSU Innovation Challenge awards $27,000 to innovative ideas

On Tuesday, March 1, 2016, the winners of North Dakota State University’s Innovation Challenge 2016 were announced, winning a total of $27,000 in cash prizes.   The student projects were…

Smartphones become a surround sound system with NDSU student's app

The phone-in-a-bowl technique is well known among smartphone owners and music lovers. It’s a way to augment the sound from tiny phone speakers – but not by much. John Daly,…

Play the game, make it rain: Energy-saving project launches new incentive

An online game launched last week could help the people of Fargo save millions in energy conservation, according to NDSU professor Malini Srivastava. Srivastava is leading a project called efargo,…

Arthur Ventures leads $4M Series A round for healthcare startup Protenus

Arthur Ventures, a Fargo-based venture capital firm, led a $4 million Series A round for Protenus, a healthcare startup based in Baltimore, Maryland. The partnership, announced on Feb. 16, is…

On My Own launches on Steam

Today, Feb. 26, Fargo-made video game On My Own launched on the online computer gaming platform Steam. The game, a 2D woodland survival game featuring a philosophical backpacker, was created…

North Dakota UAS industry draws international eye

Drone industry leaders from around the world are beginning to plant stakes in North Dakota’s unmanned aircraft system (UAS) industry. At yesterday’s UAS Industry Day by the North Dakota Department…

Fargo tech startups reach 100% team giving on Giving Heart's Day

On Feb. 9, we announced a new incentive for Giving Heart’s Day designed in collaboration between Emerging Prairie and Impact Foundation. The incentive challenged local tech startups to get 100%…

Intelligent InSites hires on new CTO, Morgan Korn

Intelligent InSites, Fargo-based provider of healthcare software, has hired on a new chief technology officer, Morgan Korn, to replace former CTO and co-founder Trevor Gruby. Korn started working with InSites…

What is Startup Weekend, really?

For the fourth year in a row, Startup Weekend is coming to Fargo. You may have heard the buzz, the distant tales of sleepless nights, 54 hours of work, of…

Inside Microsoft: Fargo team builds software toolbox of the future

It can be easy to forget that not far from Fargo’s bustling downtown, out in the open farmlands on the southern edge of Fargo, Microsoft has its third largest campus. Built…