The Pushlee mobile app developed by Morningside College student Blake Anderson and recent graduate Sean Richardson was a top-five finalist for New Startup of the Year recently at the Silicon Prairie Awards in Kansas City, Mo.

Sean Richardson	Blake Anderson

The Pushlee mobile app developed by Morningside College student Blake Anderson and recent graduate Sean Richardson was a top-five finalist for New Startup of the Year recently at the Silicon Prairie Awards in Kansas City, Mo.

The awards were presented by Silicon Prairie News, a company that highlights and supports entrepreneurs, creatives and investors in Omaha, Des Moines and Kansas City and surrounding areas. Thirteen award winners were chosen from hundreds of nominees and 56 finalists. 

Pushlee is a mobile app that helps gas stations promote offers and deals. It won Sioux City’s Innovation Market business idea competition, and the mobile app has been launched at 42 Kum & Go gas stations.

Anderson is a 2011 graduate of Don Lugo High School in Chino, Calif., and a business and political science double major at Morningside.

Richardson graduated from Morningside in 2013. He works in sales and marketing for Tri-State Integrated Solutions in Sioux City.

Anderson and Richardson are co-founders of RXA Technology, a business that helps companies create need-specific web and mobile application systems.