After years of fragmented efforts across Nebraska’s startup ecosystem, a new nonprofit is stepping in to help founders navigate the landscape, connect with resources and accelerate ideas into action.
Open Range, launched in direct response to the Silicon Prairie Rising report, aims to serve as the organizing backbone that the report called for: a central hub to coordinate the state’s growing but disconnected innovation community.
Built with a startup mindset and focused squarely on founders, Open Range is designed to amplify existing efforts, activate solutions to ecosystem gaps and improve access to critical resources in Omaha, Lincoln and beyond. The organization plans to stay intentionally lean, investing in partnerships and collaboration rather than building out a large internal team…