The increase in the number of new startups in Nebraska is a way of stimulating economic development in the state. New businesses are new innovations, new ideas and new career paths to attract and keep talents. The call to the founders of the outside of Nebraska to locate their operations here has the potential to accelerate growth and impact.
The leaders of the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Nebraska, from university leaders to investors, boast the economic gains resulting from the encouragement of startups with origins abroad to build at national level within the State.
The president of the University of Nebraska (NU), Dr. Jeffrey Gold, said that new businesses add new jobs to the market. He continued that these companies cause talents, but they can also exploit the workforce and existing talent basins favored by the university system.
Grit Road Partners General partner Mike Jung said it was worth national businesses to examine global innovations. He said that entrepreneurs outside the Midwest find solutions to problems that have a similar impact on Midwest farmers.
“We want to take advantage of and take advantage of this agricultural infrastructure and ecosystem that we intrinsically here in Nebraska to attract these Agtech (and) Agtech companies … to come here, establish roots, bring talents, hire our talent and develop their activities,” said Jung.
Invest the Nebraska The CEO Dan Hoffman said that the main state industries, such as health and agriculture, are beacons for companies looking for expert partners, qualified employees and potential customers. However, he said that Nebraska is “little in the eyes of the world”, so the state must incorporate global views and the last trends in the industry to remain relevant.
For example, Hoffman said the state Recent investments in robotics Underline the importance of adaptation of local talents to economic trends and the promotion of skills necessary to stand out between competing regions.
“Do we want to be those who develop solutions (robotics) here in Nebraska?” Hoffman asked. “Because otherwise, we will simply adopt someone else’s solutions that have been developed in another state or other country.”
“We are developing our human capital more if we understand global prospects,” added Hoffman.
What Nebraska has to offer
JUNG said that the presence of large industrials, as well as producers, dealers and institutional and multi-generational distributors position Nebraska a big striker in the agricultural industry. Beyond examples like Behlen manufacturing And Ball jointHe underlined the prominence of Nebraska in the production of beef, the production of rows of crops and the irrigation of the central pivot.
Hoffman said additional opportunities existed linked to established research institutions and state companies. He mentioned the Healthtech opportunities with the University of Creighton, the Mnum and the city of boys; ConstructionTech with Kiewit, HDR and DLR Group; and sportstech with Hudl And Opendoors.
“The Nebraska being in the center of the country, many entrepreneurs will think of the coast because this is what they will be familiar when they enter the United States,” said Hoffman.
“But when you come to Nebraska, you have many advantages. Whether it is the school system, the university system, the commercial climate, the cost of the business – there are just a lot of advantages,” said Hoffman.
These types of opportunities are what attracted the coast of startups and the biotechnology of Teuceka to Nebraska, the west coast and the East coast respectively.
Find a Nebraska support network
Catch up Develops a software platform for the cattle industry. The tool, available on the mobile and the office, serves as a complete solution to rationalize the operations of the cattle farm. The company team is from Argentina. Earlier this year, the rodent moved from California to The combine harvester in Lincoln.
The co-founder and CEO of Cattler, Ignacio Albornoz, said that he initially moved to California because of his wife’s work, and that he planned to draw from Silicon Valley investors. However, Albornoz said that investors from the West Coast he met lacking experience in the cattle industry and seemed more interested in the rise of alternative proteins and avoided perceived sources of pollution. He and his team decided to focus on the Midwest where they had existing customers.
Debating between Colorado and Nebraska, Albornoz said that their mission seemed to resonate with Nebraska investors. In addition, the ambassadors of the ecosystem highlighted local startups, industry leaders and economic support networks in Nebraska. Albornoz said the sensor planned to recruit local talents via the Entrepreneurship program to englean Agribusiness at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNS).
“Everything is a matter of relationships,” said Albornoz. “It looks like a smaller community, and you are always two -step to go to the people you need.”
Teucer is a startup from research carried out at the American university of Beirut (AUB) in Lebanon. The study led to a patented test to predict vascular diseases early, which can be a warning for heart attacks and cerebral vascular accidents.
The co-founder of Teuccer and president of Dr. Kamal Badr, said that they had started in Florida at the University of Miami to be close to a principal researcher doing postdoctoral work in the state. BADR said the team had moved operations to Nebraska after conversations with the president of Nu Gold during their stay in service on the board of directors for the Medical graduate accreditation advice (ACGME).
“The Nebraska was not originally on our map, but now it has become (where) we will move the business,” said Badr.
Needing a place to carry out validation studies for the FDA approval process, Badr said he had listened to the GOLD UNMC suggestion. Gold also helped Badr Network within the State. Badr said TEUCER now had his seat in Health cook in Omaha and recently hired Connie Ryan, former president of Boastas CEO of the startup.
BADR said that the company explored financing options via the State, such as correspondence subsidies of research on innovation in small businesses / small businesses (SBIR / STTR) when they continue the approval of the FDA. He added that conversations between university leaders in the two institutions could lead to future collaborations on entrepreneurial efforts between MNUR and AUB.
Weigh on options
Albornoz de Cattler shared some of the considerations that companies – both at the national level and abroad – take into account during the move. These included paperwork navigation, visa and state financing programs to determine the best methods to achieve efficiency with cultural factors such as language mastery. For example, Albornoz said that the Captler development team is still based in Argentina because it is faster for them to develop in Spanish, their mother tongue, than English.
The founders and defenders of startups recognize the role played by personal relationships in this decision -making process.
“This company is done by developing relationships,” said Hoffman. “We must be present. Whether they are salons in other countries, or to lead commercial delegations to these countries or to salute their commercial delegations in Nebraska. ”
By directly forming these more personal relationships, Hoffman said that the state can reduce potential “noise” surrounding government policies and foreign relations at a higher level to highlight collaboration and opportunities at the local level.
Gold agreed with the importance of individual conversations. He said that his talks with the founder of Teucer had started with the coffee.
“We all need to wear an ambassador’s hat,” said Gold.