Profiles

Isaac Thibault, PushIT Fitness

Look to your father, not the coach: Why one fit entrepreneur hopes to redefine ‘dad bod’

By Tommy Felts / January 7, 2021

Fatherhood — like athletics — is a physical and mental challenge with lifelong impacts, said Isaac Thibault, detailing the parallels at the core of his pandemic-pivoted career turn as a personal trainer. Launched this summer, Thibault’s PushIT Fitness targets married men with children — a demographic that allows the 25-year-old Overland Park entrepreneur an opportunity to…

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Jeremy Elias, TrackMy Solutions

TrackMy Vaccines allows patients to record COVID-19 vaccine reactions; use real-time data to ID trends

By Tommy Felts / January 7, 2021

With millions of Americans set to be inoculated with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine this year, Kansas City startup TrackMy Solutions transformed its technology into a web app with which patients can track their vaccine reactions, Jeremy Elias said. “There’s a system known as VAERS, or Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, that exists today for any…

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Riddhiman Das, TripleBlind

Mayo Clinic partnership proves TripleBlind’s privacy tech can be applied to healthcare, co-founder says

By Tommy Felts / January 6, 2021

A new partnership with Mayo Clinic will put Kansas City-stored TripleBlind’s data privacy promise to the test.  “We hope to demonstrate the potential of applying TripleBlind’s data privacy and data clean room solution to accelerate how we develop, test, and deploy AI solutions in healthcare, particularly amidst heavily regulated privacy concerns,” Riddhiman Das, co-founder and…

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Joshua Lewis, UpDown Nightlife

UpDown Nightlife set to relaunch app; secures lead investor for $500K seed round 

By Tommy Felts / January 5, 2021

When COVID-19 turned out the lights on nightlife in 2020, Joshua Lewis didn’t go into panic mode, he said. The persistent founder used the time to flesh out his app’s tech platform — and in the process found a key funder for UpDown Nightlife. “This is our first real round of funding where we’re able to…

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Dr. Allison Edwards and Jay Austin

Rethinking healthcare: How a doctor and activist brought more than 5,000 COVID-19 tests to KC’s most vulnerable

By Tommy Felts / December 30, 2020

A primary care physician with an innovative take on healthcare and a passionate activist with an extensive background in video production might seem like an unlikely duo, said Dr. Allison Edwards. But she and serial creative Jay Austin united their strengths during the pandemic to help underserved communities in Kansas City gain access to critical…

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