This week s episode of The Topeka Capital-Journal s It s Your Business podcast is the first of many to feature a startup participating in innovation platform Plug & Play s Topeka accelerator program.
Darin Heisterkamp, president of NanoSpy Inc., an Iowa-based startup, spoke with The Capital-Journal s India Yarborough and The Greater Topeka Partnership s Katrin Bridges for this co-hosted episode of the show.
NanoSpy is one of 10 startups focused on innovation in the animal-health and agricultural-technology realms to be chosen for Plug & Play s inaugural Topeka cohort, which kicked off its three-month-long session at the beginning of April.
On the It s Your Business podcast, Heisterkamp discussed the creation of NanoSpy, which has developed a state-of-the-art biosensor that can detect bacteria and pathogens in food, returning results within 20 minutes.
Pottawatomie County resident Todd Konkel hopped on the Topeka development scene in 2019, and since then, he has made a splash.
Konkel and his wife opened the Topeka Vendors Market, 528 S.E. Adams St., late last year, after purchasing the warehouse and its five adjacent buildings on that block at the end of 2019. About a year later, he closed on more property, buying the former Topeka Capital-Journal building, at 616 S.E. Jefferson St.
Konkel has big plans for both projects, and he said his past real estate experience in such areas as Houston and the U.S. Virgin Islands have prepared him to take on the new endeavors.
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