Resources exist for technology-related start-ups in Iowa. The trick, industry leaders say, is identifying them.

That is the goal behind a new statewide initiative called StartupIowa, a collaboration of business incubators and other tech-related ventures across the state.

“There are already a lot of great things going on in the state to support entrepreneurs,” said Andy Stoll, a partner at Cedar Rapids-based Vault Coworking & Collaboration Space, who helped unveil the initiative at a ribbon cutting for StartupCity Des Moines on Tuesday. “They are not easy to find; you might not know they exist. It’s really trying to bring all those resources under one umbrella, under one brand, to try to help the entrepreneurs.”

He said it’s not as much an organization at this point as it is a brand to give entrepreneurs a centralized place to know where to look for resources.

Stoll has worked with StartupCity founders Christian Renaud and Tej Dhawan, along with a number of other leaders around the state, to launch StartupIowa, which they say is the eighth such statewide initiative in the country.

The initiative is part of the Startup America Partnership, which launched earlier this year. Startup America CEO Scott Case was also in attendance at Tuesday’s ribbon cutting, telling the audience that it’s not just the coasts that can foster innovative start-ups.

StartupIowa doesn’t yet have a leadership structure, nor does it have any guiding principles or overarching organizational goals yet. The idea, Stoll said, is to first highlight that there are ways for entrepreneurs around the state to benefit from things as critical as start-up funding programs, or as simple as the networking events that go on around the state.

Much as entrepreneurs do, he said, StartupIowa will take feedback and improve its operation on the fly.

“We said, let’s bring all the resources together, let’s launch, and we’ll immediately get feedback of what we are doing, what we can do better, and then we’ll build this machine as we go,” Stoll said.

Resources exist for technology-related start-ups in Iowa. The trick, industry leaders say, is identifying them.

That is the goal behind a new statewide initiative called StartupIowa, a collaboration of business incubators and other tech-related ventures across the state.

“There are already a lot of great things going on in the state to support entrepreneurs,” said Andy Stoll, a partner at Cedar Rapids-based Vault Coworking & Collaboration Space, who helped unveil the initiative at a ribbon cutting for StartupCity Des Moines on Tuesday. “They are not easy to find; you might not know they exist. It’s really trying to bring all those resources under one umbrella, under one brand, to try to help the entrepreneurs.”

He said it’s not as much an organization at this point as it is a brand to give entrepreneurs a centralized place to know where to look for resources.

Stoll has worked with StartupCity founders Christian Renaud and Tej Dhawan, along with a number of other leaders around the state, to launch StartupIowa, which they say is the eighth such statewide initiative in the country.

The initiative is part of the Startup America Partnership, which launched earlier this year. Startup America CEO Scott Case was also in attendance at Tuesday’s ribbon cutting, telling the audience that it’s not just the coasts that can foster innovative start-ups.

StartupIowa doesn’t yet have a leadership structure, nor does it have any guiding principles or overarching organizational goals yet. The idea, Stoll said, is to first highlight that there are ways for entrepreneurs around the state to benefit from things as critical as start-up funding programs, or as simple as the networking events that go on around the state.

Much as entrepreneurs do, he said, StartupIowa will take feedback and improve its operation on the fly.

“We said, let’s bring all the resources together, let’s launch, and we’ll immediately get feedback of what we are doing, what we can do better, and then we’ll build this machine as we go,” Stoll said.