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By Joe Runge
June 21, 2020
UNeTech

What Is … Seed Capital?

by | December 9, 2025 | Blog Series, Community Conversations, Featured, UNeTech, What Is | 0 Comments

You are Probably Not Ready for Seed Capital  When founders think about seed capital, they think about what they need: early money to build their product, prove the concept, and get to market. Seed capital is validation. It's the funding that turns an idea into a real...
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Building the Ideal Startup Team: Roles Every MedTech Company Needs

by | December 2, 2025 | Community Conversations, Featured, UNeTech | 0 Comments

At UNeTech, we’ve had the privilege of walking alongside some of the most brilliant MedTech inventors in Nebraska—from devices like MicroWash, which reimagines diagnostic sample collection, to Precision Syringe, a tool designed to reduce medication waste and improve...
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Welcome to the community, Open Range

by | November 24, 2025 | Community Conversations, Featured, UNeTech | 0 Comments

Open range has a great logo. The tallgrass prairie isn't just Nebraska's landscape—it's a metaphor for what makes ecosystems thrive. Those dry leaves of grass, waving in the wind, serve as homes to insects and rodents, locked in constant warfare with the rivers and...
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Why Coastal Investors Should Look to the Midwest

by | November 18, 2025 | Community Conversations, Featured, UNeTech | 0 Comments

Midwest investment opportunities are overlooked. While venture capital has historically pooled along the coasts, recent years have revealed a quiet transformation in the center of the country. Today, the Nebraska startup ecosystem offers strong ties to industries...
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From Intern to Leader: Emily Pratt’s Journey Through OVRP

by | November 12, 2025 | Featured, OVRP, UNeTech | 0 Comments

At UNeTech, we’re proud to say we don’t just support innovation—we support innovators. One of the clearest examples of that mission in action is Emily Pratt, a creative technologist whose leadership journey through the Omaha Virtual Reality Pipeline (OVRP) has been as...
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VisionSync: Made in Omaha

by | October 21, 2025 | Community Conversations, Featured, UNePlan, UNeTech | 0 Comments

I politely asked the work crew to be quiet as they moved through the Crane Co-Working Lobby in the Catalyst space. My finger to my lips, I nodded to the interview occurring on the main floor. They smiled apologetically and hurried into the service hallway.  They knew...
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HOT TAKE: Omaha founders need to ditch the modesty — but keep it real — to win big

by | October 7, 2025 | Community Conversations, Featured, UNeTech | 0 Comments

Coffee, Catalyst, and a Hot Take  Thursday morning. Catalyst Building. Omaha’s shiny new baby in the Edge District. I’m clutching my caramel mocha from The Grove like it’s a life preserver, waiting for the UNeMed’s Morning Edition to kick off, when I spot Scott...
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A Vision Shared: The Symbolism and Future of the Maverick Technology Venture Alliance

by | September 23, 2025 | Featured, MTVA, Programs, UNeTech | 0 Comments

Some of UNeTech’s most enduring success stories start not in a lab, but with a conversation. This one began years ago in a campus conference room, over coffee and whiteboards, when the question was first asked: What if we didn’t just file patents? What if we helped...
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Goodbye, Church Basement

by | September 16, 2025 | Featured, OVRP, Uncategorized, UNeTech | 0 Comments

Years ago, UNeTech met to discuss its mission, vision and values.  In the session, our facilitator asked everyone to describe UNeTech in a word. Scrappy came up a lot.  The UNeTech team in the "Church Basement" viewing a demonstration of a 3D printer. I took ownership...
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What Recruiters Should Know About VR Developers—A New Breed of Interactive Tech Talent

by | May 30, 2025 | Adeptus Interactive, Featured, OVRP, Programs | 0 Comments

In today's competitive tech landscape, VR developers represent a powerful combination of technical skill and team collaboration prowess. As organizations across industries embrace immersive technologies, recruiters must understand what makes these professionals...
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UNeTech welcomes Skillbridge fellow to DevOps team

UNeTech welcomes Skillbridge fellow to DevOps team

by | Feb 16, 2022 |

UNeTech is excited to welcome Brendan McCullagh, a soon-to-be army veteran and software engineer, to our team through the Hiring Our Heroes program. McCullagh joined the Army shortly after 9/11, leaving his life as a college student in Colorado to serve as a...

UNeTech welcomes web design intern

UNeTech welcomes web design intern

by | Feb 9, 2022 |

UNeTech Institute is pleased to welcome Blair Osika, a web design student at Metropolitan Community College, onto the team as a web design intern. Osika, 19, is a talented designer and artist who will help the team revamp the website and blog over the next few months....

Meet the 2022 Opportunity Corps Cohort

Meet the 2022 Opportunity Corps Cohort

by | Feb 2, 2022 |

Bio Nebraska and the UNeTech Institute are excited to announce the 2022 cohort for Opportunity Corps, a professional development, entrepreneurship, and mentorship program for women in STEAM. These individuals will meet on Fri., Feb. 11, 2022, for a virtual workshop...

Grant Rejection Teaches Excellence Through Failure

Grant Rejection Teaches Excellence Through Failure

by | Dec 17, 2021 |

At UNeTech we write a lot of grants. Most of them we don’t get. Build Back Better was one of them. Speaking only for myself, it’s a bit of a disappointment. While there’s a remnant of my inner teenager that wants to pretend that I didn’t really want it anyways – I...

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