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Aerial imagery tech by ND startup brings farming to new heights

The field of view (FOV) is the extent of the observable world that is seen at any given moment. That’s what Google tells me upon looking up “field of view.”…

Live Job Board: March 4, 2015

Like every first Wednesday of the month, this week’s 1 Million Cups Fargo concluded with a live job board – a chance for employers to get up on the mic…

Finding Fargo's tech talent: how do we bridge the gap?

As a writer for Emerging Prairie, I’ve interviewed and interacted with a lot of different startups and entrepreneurs. And throughout these past six months of exploring the local startup community,…

Autonomous snowplow does the shoveling for you

It’s supposed to snow today. Anyone in the Midwest knows the drill; when the snow falls, it must be shoveled. This usually means rising earlier than one would like, up…

Emerging Prairie's February in Review

January was just the warm-up. February hit like the snow that is finally coating Fargo’s streets, bringing with it a series of successful events and big announcements – both good…

Innovation Challenge 2015 Final Awards: the winning teams

The results are in! North Dakota State University’s Innovation Challenge 2015 concluded on Thursday with an Awards Luncheon and a total of $20,000 given to the ten winning teams. The…

Vidku startup raises $17 million in 17 days

It took Minneapolis-based startup Vidku only 17 days to raise $17 million in a Series A funding round led by Fargo-based venture capital firm Arthur Ventures, among other investors. The…

Emerging Prairie launches campaign to find first Executive Director

The Board of Directors of Emerging Prairie is excited to announce that they are officially launching their campaign to find and hire the first Executive Director of our organization. Details on…

Innovation Challenge Awards is today!

All of it – the brainstorming, the bootcamps, the presentations – it all comes down to this. This afternoon, at NDSU’s Innovation Challenge Awards Luncheon at the Fargodome, nine teams…

Startup Spotlight: Terri Zimmerman, CEO of Packet Digital

You might know Terri Zimmerman as the CEO of Packet Digital. She’s been CEO since September 2013, furthering their mission to achieve power savings through autonomous system-level power management (which…