Nebraska splits cleanly between two real economic identities. Omaha is a Fortune 500 anchor city out of proportion to its size -- Berkshire Hathaway, Union Pacific, Kiewit, and Mutual of Omaha are all headquartered there, together generating more than $426 billion in annual revenue, and Douglas County alone produces 38% of the entire state's GDP. Lincoln runs on a different real engine: the University of Nebraska-Lincoln anchors a genuine agtech startup ecosystem -- NUtech Ventures, The Combine accelerator, and Nebraska Innovation Campus support roughly 45 startups and 60 supporting organizations, with real growth in precision agriculture, livestock monitoring, and robotics. Insurance and rail money in one city, the agricultural technology actually reshaping how the rest of the country's farms work in the other.
Region Stats
Total firms
8
VC / investors
1
Companies
6
Schools
1
Known For
Fortune 500 Money
Rail
Agtech
