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Meet the Kansas City entrepreneurs picked for DoorDash’s first Midwest accelerator

By Tommy Felts / May 13, 2025

DoorDash delivers $50K bag to 10 KC small biz leaders hungry to learn DoorDash is dropping support on Kansas City’s doorstep through a new cohort of 10 small businesses selected for the company’s local restaurant accelerator, marking the first time the nationwide initiative has landed in the Midwest — with KC chosen as its launchpad.…

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Advocates want a startup-boosting Missouri angel investor tax credit (but they’ll have to beat legislature’s ticking clock)

By Tommy Felts / May 9, 2025

With about a week left in Missouri’s legislative session, business advocates at NEXT Missouri are making a final push for lawmakers to pass a bill creating a state angel investor tax credit — legislation its backers say could catalyze early-stage business growth and keep entrepreneurial talent and essential startup capital rooted in the state. Jason…

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Merck plans $895M expansion for its De Soto biologics site; leaders tout strength of KC animal health corridor

By Tommy Felts / May 8, 2025

DE SOTO, Kan. — A biopharmaceutical giant plans to invest $895 million to expand its biologics facility in Kansas, notching another win as leaders position Kansas City as a hub for digital and animal health innovation. The 200,000-square-foot expansion project includes an $860 million investment in Merck Animal Health’s existing manufacturing site west of the…

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Wrong tool can wreck a neighborhood; Precision development key to avoiding gentrification’s negative impacts, EDCKC says

By Tommy Felts / May 8, 2025

Editor’s note: The following is the second in a four-part series exploring the verticals and impact of initiatives within the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City through a paid partnership with EDCKC. Leave KC better than you found it: How matching growth to city’s needs is paying off Homegrown startups can redefine KC; they just need…

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